Angelina Jolie discusses casting Japanese musician Miyavi as the vicious P.O.W. camp guard Watanabe—not because he would enjoy playing a villain, but the exact opposite. that will find the deeper side ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Angelina Jolie was casting the role of the Japanese WWII prison commander Mutsuhiro Watanabe for "Unbroken," she wanted an actor who could walk into a huge crowd — like a World War II POW camp — ...