Watanabe: 'Iwo' Role Took Much Research

Having starred in several TV series and films about samurai, Ken Watanabe understands sacrifice, honor and fierce battles to the death. So playing a Japanese general in a film about the bloody Battle of Iwo Jima would appear to be a seamless transition.

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U.S. movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is moving the filming of his new movie "Shanghai" to Thailand and England after being blocked from shooting in China, a Hollywood trade publication reported Wednesday.

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This was the kind of movie that should have made me cry, but couldn't. There was something about the film, an emptyness or hollowness that kept me from getting pulled in.

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