Movie Plot : The story is based on an ancient Chinese saying, which subdivides life in four emotional cornerstones: luck, pleasure, grief and love. The saying does not see these emotions as isolated, but together they form the human being. Each of the four persons in this story is based on one of these emotions. And just like in the saying, their ways also are connected with each other.

Genre : Crime - Drama - Romance

Also starring : Andy Garcia, Brendan Fraser, Clark Gregg, Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker, John Cho, Jon Bernthal, Julie Delpy, Kelly Hu, ...

Movie Plot : During the Second World War, Iwo Jima was the scene of bloody fights between Japanese and American soldiers for two months in 1945. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) fought during 40 days for his Japan against the American troops. Fast the generals and his troops find out that they are busy on a suicide mission.

Genre : Drama - War

Also starring : Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Yuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Nobumasa Sakagami, Takashi Yamaguchi, ...

Movie Plot : In February and March of 1945 the volcano island Iwo Jima near Japan was the centre of a battle between the United States and Japan, where in a month time 22,000 Japanese and 26,000 Americans died. The fight provided one of the most well known pictures of the Second World War: the photograph of six soldiers who hoist the American Flag on the Suribachi, the highest mountain of the island. One of those six was marine John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe). He never told this piece of heroism to his family and only after his dead in 1994, his son James (Thomas McCarthy) discovered this history.

Genre : Action - Drama - History - War

Also starring : Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, Jacob Pitts, Jamie Bell, Jayma Mays, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Polito, Judith Ivey, Ken Watanabe, ...

Movie Plot : Little boy Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) saw his both parents being killed right in front of his eyes: a trauma that will fill him with hatred for the rest of his life. Fate however, doesn't let him execute his revenge. He runs to the Far East, where the ninja-leader Ra's Al-Ghul (Ken Watanabe) is taking care of him. When he returns back to his hometown Gotham City, the Mafia gangs and other gangster’s rule it. He decides to change his personality, one that will fill the hearts of the criminals with fear: Batman! With some help of policeman Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), Batman (Christian Bale) begins his battle against injustice, against Don Falcone, the crazy doctor and drug dealer Jonathan 'Scarecrow' Crane (Cillian Murphy) and a mysterious third person.

Genre : Action - Adventure - Crime - Fantasy - Thriller

Also starring : Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, Mark Boone Junior, ...

Movie Plot : A story of love and treason against the background of a rapid changing Japanese society in the 20th century. The 9-year-old Chiyo, daughter of a poor fisherman is separated from her family and sold to a geisha house in the Gion-district of Kyoto. Here, she has to fit in to head-geisha Hatsumomo's whims, but she offers resistance and with the help of Hatsumomo's competitor Mameha, Chiyo becomes the most famous geisha of Japan.

Genre : Drama - Romance

Also starring : Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Kôji Yakusho, Kaori Momoi, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Kenneth Tsang, ...

Movie Plot : Tom Cruise is captain Nathan Algren, a hero from the American civil war, which sets off to Japan to fight the samurai, but eventually chooses their side. Ken Watanabe, plays the role of Katsumoto, a leader of the samurai who slowly sees his way of life disappearing and whose destiny gets entwined with that of the American captain.

Genre : Action - Adventure - Drama - War

Also starring : Aoi Minato, Billy Connolly, Chad Lindberg, Hiroaki Amano, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hisao Takeda, Jiro Wada, John Koyama, Ken Watanabe, ...

Also starring : Ken Watanabe, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hirata Mitsuru, ...

Also starring : Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, ...