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, ...

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 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 — ...

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 ...

Japanese pop star Miyavi was surprised to be cast as a sadistic POW guard in a Hollywood movie, a controversial move in a country still arguing about the second world war If you had a mental image of ...

But the singer’s short, back and sides didn’t surprised his fans at the film’s world premiere in Sydney as much as his demure behaviour. “On the red carpet I was really polite, behaving as an actor, ...

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: Universal Pictures and director Angelina Jolie have found their villain for the Lou Zamperini tale Unbroken. Jolie has set Japanese guitarist and singer Miyavi to play the role of ...

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 ...

World War II is often called “the last good war” by Westerners. That’s not true in Japan. And in treading into the murky depths of the Pacific Theater with the story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, ...

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 ...

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 ...