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Tokyo Vice Editor on Challenges & Setting Tone for Season 2 Finale
Jean-Pierre spoke to Bleeding Cool about his four-episode stint on the Max drama Tokyo Vice, based on the memoir of the same name by Jake Adelstein, chronicling his time as a police beat reporter in Japan, working on season two with director Josef Kubota Wladyka, the challenges he faced, his most memorable sequence, Shyamalan, whether[...]
Tokyo Vice: Season 2 Debuts February 8th, Trailer Released
The ten-episode second season debuts with two episodes followed by one new episode weekly for eight weeks so you can get your fix of Yakuza crime action more regularly. "Tokyo Vice Season Two" poster art: MAX The series stars Golden Globe nominee Ansel Elgort, Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show[...]
The Last Samurai: Ken Watanabe ‘Step Forward’ for Asian Representation
However, as far as its value in the long term is something that can be attested to star Ken Watanabe, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor his role as Katsumoto While promoting his TV series Tokyo Vice on HBO Max, the actor spoke to the Guardian about how the Edward Zwick film[...]
Ken Watanabe Talks Franchise Expectations in ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’
As one of the faces returning to the Godzilla franchise following the 2014 film, Ken Watanabe said it can be a little unnerving keeping up with the pressure for Godzilla: King of the Monsters Watanabe spoke about reprising his role as Dr Ishiro Serizawa and bringing a balance to bridge the old and the new[...]
Detective Pikachu, courtesy Warner Bros.
Tim and the talking Pikachu, who calls himself "Detective Pikachu", investigate to find his whereabouts with the help of a reporter, Lucy Stevens (Kathryn Newton) and her Psyduck, until they come across something that endangers the Pokémon world. Directed by Rob Letterman, the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Suki Waterhouse, Omar Chaparro, Chris[...]
Ken Watanabe attends The DreamWorks SKG and Sony Pictures Premiere of "Memoirs of a Geisha" held at The Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on December 4, 2005.
We're still not really sure what Universal and Legendary Pictures are planning with their upcoming live-action Pokemon film Detective Pikachu, but their cast sure is getting good. Photo by Tinseltown/Shutterstock.com Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception) has just been brought in to join the cast, apparently in a role that was specifically created for the film (so says[...]
Who Will Play The Ancient One?
Also there was a tease over a month ago from director Scott Derrickson about the graphic novel Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa where the Ancient One is already gone and a trip back to his home leads to the Doctor meeting the Lords of Shamballa. So the three names that are rumored to play the potentially small[...]