Ken Watanabe

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Dir. Jūzō Itami · With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Dir. Edward Zwick · With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Dir. Rob Marshall · With Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

Dir. Gareth Edwards · With John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

Dir. Rob Letterman · With Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.

Dir. Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield · With Patrick Stewart, Constantino Romero, James Earl Jones

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

Dir. Michael Dougherty · With Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Dir. J.T. Rogers · With Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Dir. Gareth Edwards · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Dir. Setsuro Wakamatsu · With Ken Watanabe, Koichi Sato, Hidetaka Yoshioka

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Dir. Mikael Håfström · With John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.

Dir. Paul Weitz · With Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch