More than two weeks before its release, Angelina Jolie’s World War II drama Unbroken is already the focus of political sniping and debate. The film tells the remarkable true story of Louis Zamperini, ...

As a sergeant at various Japanese POW camps during World War II, Mutsuhiro Watanabe forced prisoners to lick their shoes clean and once ordered American Louis Zamperini to be punched in the face by ...

HOLLYWOOD – Unknowns making a big splash can be exciting in this industry. Just last year, Barkhad Abdi stood toe-to-toe with Tom Hanks and landed an Oscar nomination for his troubles, when just a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar voters learned the name Miyavi over the weekend as Angelina Jolie’s Best Picture contender Unbroken made its awards-season premiere. Now the Japanese rock star-turned-actor has signed ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Japanese musician turned actor, Miyavi is striking a new chord with audiences in the recently released film "Unbroken." In the fact-based movie, Miyavi plays a merciless prison ...

Before Angelina Jolie made “Unbroken,” Louis Zamperini’s dramatic World War II survival story had been looking for a filmmaker since 1957. But it took Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book and the ...

When Japanese rocker Miyavi — who has become a breakout actor in Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” — spoke perfect English at a Q&A last week at the Metropolitan club, some wondered why he had a translator ...

To play the prison guard, known as The Bird, who singles out Jack O'Connell's Louis Zamperini for special torture, Miyavi's costumes consisted of the buttoned-up uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army ...

The Japanese rock star Miyavi was picked by Angelina Jolie to play a WWII prison commandant for his first acting role; what makes Stephen Colbert geek-out, and what did an appearance on "The Colbert ...

Japanese rocker Miyavi is a superstar at home, but he was so nervous making his Hollywood debut as an actor for Angelina Jolie in “Unbroken,” he hurled in front of her. “I literally threw up,” ­Miyavi ...