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My Favorites:Press Conference with Ken Watanabe immediately after the 2004 Academy Awards -- AWESOME! 12 minutes, all Ken, gracious and confident. Who cares what language he speaks! Also, wonderful transcripts below! [Japanese] (by "jeyjy") (by "mfu-1")
AWESOME Video Interview with Ken about "The Last Samurai" -- (Thank you, "jyejy"...this is the video that "went missing" before!) (If it is taken off again later, here's the link to page that loads the player and video (hopefully it will always work) [English] Video: talking with (director) Ed Zwick, Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise and other cast members -- [English] AWESOME/2 -LANGUAGE Press Conference in Japan with TLS cast before release -- [translated both English / Japanese except Ken's statement] Same Press Conference, cut/mixed/different -- [Japanese / English] Excerpts and Pictures -- [Japanese] Several FABULOUS video clips at the OFFICIAL WEBSITE! Excerpts, interviews, behind-the-scenes and commercial trailers -- [English] To access "Flash" Videos:
Pictures and transcipt -- [Japanese] BEST Official Movie Trailer -- the ONLY one that can give you a good sense of the movie WITHOUT SPOILING "favorite parts" (it's not only the "action" that you don't want spoiled, trust me!) [English] "Warner Brothers' Offical Awards Website": has 4 VIDEO CLIPS about making "The Last Samurai" on BRAVO! -- VERY GOOD interviews. On the plus side, they include some of Ken. On the negative side, as usual in the US, he doesn't get that much time. In fact, Ken's are the ones from the TLS website, except here some of it is mixed with clips from the movie. [English] Press Conference in Japan with Ken Watanabe -- Recorded the day he returned to Japan after attending the Golden Globe Awards and being nominated for the Academy Awards (only Ken!) [Japanese] PLEASE let me know if you come across this video in another location. It is gone! (video was originally on bcast.co.jp, newspage was on headlines.yahoo.co.jp) (by "mfu-1")ComingSoon.net's Film Database for "The Last Saumrai" -- All popular movie clips, 1 with combined clips & interviews ("Featurette") and 1 about transformation from story boards ("From Clip to Screen"). Pay special attention to the "Featurette". WARNING! These are spoilers if you haven't seen the movie (not as much for revealing the plot as for showing some of the best dialogue/interaction/action scenes)...this movie is all about the characters and you may not want to know these things ahead! [English] Watch VIDEO with cast of "The Last Samurai" on tribute.ca -- [English]
Others:NEW!!! Coming Soon! Film Database -- Batman Begins info and movie trailers [English]Video clip from Kyoto Premiere of "The Last Samurai" -- Includes clip of Ken Watanabe speaking to crowd and reporters! [Japanese] Video Interviews with the 5 Best Supporting Actor Nominess -- On this page, click "watch the video" below Tim Robbins' picture. 1 video/5 actors. [English] "Academy Award Nominees React" -- I found 1 of them again! (Click the link, scroll down to where there are lists of videos arranged by category, click the "Archive" Tab...in the 1st column, "Showbiz", click "SAG Red Carpet".) 2 of the 3 good videos are still gone. I emailed them to kindly ask them to return them. Japanese Page with MANY Video Clips of Ken! -- [Japanese except for part of 1 clip] PLEASE let me know if you come across this video in another location, or know how to sign up and can help non-Japanese fans do so. (Video was on infoseek.co.jp) Video clip of Ken from upcoming [Japanese] TV show on WOWOW -- Full coverage on website of Academy Awards, related news, schedules, and video clip of Ken Watanabe with long-time friend and actor, Takashi Naito, on upcoming TV show (to be broadcast February 21st, 2003). Naito heads the Japanese broadcast of the Academy Awards on March 1st, 2004. Page has been edited, but link is still there! See the green tab-shaped areas on the bottom half of the page? In the top-right one, click the yellow button! You must turn off pop-up stoppers. Choose a speed in the new window. [Japanese] Video Clip of Ken's red-carpet interview with Joan Rivers at the Academy Awards -- VERY short clip of an interview that was short to begin with...but also includes shots of him greeting screaming fans. [English] Press Conference in Japan with cast BEFORE "The Last Samurai" was made: interviews with cast -- (August 28, 2003, edited) [English (Tom/Ed) / Japanese (all)] SAME THING, BETTER QUALITY, CLOSER-UP, LONGER (2 Parts): (Part 1 - Ken and others) (Part 2 - Tom) Video satelite interview with Ken Watanabe on TV -- [Japanese] PLEASE let me know if you come across this video in another location, or know what TV station originally carried it. (Video was on tv-ashi.co.jp) Press Conference in Japan for his new movie, "Kita no Zeronen", set on Hokkaido (RealPlayer) -- Ken is speaks near the end; [Japanese] Page has link to video -- [Japanese] Another page with link to video -- (Click picture!) Video Links for Ken Watanabe and "The Last Samurai" on Infoseek Japan -- A total of 14 videos! [Japanese/English] NOTE: Some videos are in mixed format and may not play properly! Here is how to solve the problem: 1)...Cut & Paste Link into Windows Media Player. (Highlight a link with "shift" & arrow keys, open Windows Media Player; click "File" menu, click "Open URL"; click cursor in box, hold down "ctrl" key, and press "V" key; click "Go" or "OK". (This will work MOST of the time.) 2)...Download a "codec" needed to play this mixed media and update to Windows Media Player 9. (See the Internet Tools page for links to these free downloads. Since I have done this, these videos have always worked, and I just now used them without cuting & pasting, too!
Official movie trailer for "T.R.Y." [Japanese film] (Windows MediaPlayer) -- [Japanese] Movie information, video links -- [English] Yakult 400 (health drink) commercial -- [Japanese] Archives page with very short clips of Tokyo Premiere (Nov 11, 2003) and pre-filming press conference -- As of today (March 16, 2004) "Rust Samurai" is the 26th movie in the list. The Japanese characters look like this:  [Japanese page]
Movie times for Japanese cities, Video Links, previous roles for each actor -- [Japanese] |