who served as the inspiration for The Last Samurai‘s Katsumoto, played by Ken Watanabe. In the true story of The Last Samurai, Watanabe’s character who resembles Takamori leads a great and ...

Badly wounded, Algren's courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) spare his life. Once nursed to health, he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and ...

Actor Ken Watanabe, who played Katsumoto, defended the film against its critics, pointing out that The Last Samurai helped break harmful stereotypes of Asians in Hollywood. Before the movie ...

Tokyo Vice' trailer: Ken Watanabe guides Ansel Elgort in new ... in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for ...

Five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific) and Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception) star in a magnificent new Broadway more ...