Ken Watanabe

John David Washington (Tenet), Gemma Chan (Eternals) and Oscar-winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) star in this AI apocalyptic sci-fi from Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).

Ansel Elgort (West Side Story) and Ken Watanabe (Inception) star in this HBO crime series based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book, a first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat.

Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe (Inception) lead this hostage thriller about an opera singer and a wealthy businessman who stick together while a guerrilla rebel group take over a private performance.

Godzilla goes up against Mothra, Rodan and the three-headed King Ghidorah in this blockbuster action sequel.

A young man teams up with Detective Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) to find his missing father in this live action family adventure.

A suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) befriends a Japanese man (Ken Watanabe) lost in Japan's Suicide Forest in this American drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk).

Radioactive giant Godzilla storms into cinemas after nearly 30 Japanese films and two prior American versions. Excitingly, this is from director Gareth Edwards - his second film after the excellent Monsters (2010).

Cryptically described as a contemporary sci-fi action thriller "set within the architecture of the mind", this is director Christopher Nolan's follow-up to smash-hit The Dark Knight. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio.

A fantasy-adventure, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.

Christian Bale is billionaire Bruce Wayne, transforming himself into a self-made symbol of justice in this first film of Christopher Nolan's gritty Dark Knight trilogy.

Part two of Clint Eastwood’s ambitious duology about the battle at Iwo Jima.

Jackie Chan gets serious – producing and starring in this illegal immigrant tale which he describes as “one per-cent action… heavy drama”.

Ziyi Zhang (House of Flying Daggers), Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) star in this romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, where a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare in this epic set in the 1870s. Executive produced by Vincent Ward (River Queen) and shot in New Zealand.