Tag: Ken Watanabe
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After ‘Rogue One’ and ‘Godzilla,’ Gareth Edwards Wants to Revolutionize How Studio Films Get Made With ‘The Creator’
When Gareth Edwards directed his first movie, the 2010 indie “Monsters,” it could scarcely have been a more DIY endeavor. He had less than $500,000 to tell an intimate story about two Americans contending with giant aliens rampaging through Mexico, so his crew consisted of just his actors (Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able), a sound…
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Was Remade as a Samurai Epic That Slays
There have been a lot of things said about the magnificence of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. Undoubtedly one of the finest Westerns in cinematic history, its influence has been so far-reaching that it gave birth to a Japanese remake in 2013 starring Ken Watanabe. Directed by Lee Sang-il, the jidaigeki reconstruction takes the spirit of the…