Mutsuhiro "The Bird" Watanabe targeted and brutally tortured Louie in two of the POW camps he spent time in, just like ...

The Angelina Jolie-directed World War II drama “Unbroken” tells a very human story. Louis “Louie” Zamperini, a former high school track star and Olympic athlete, joins the U.S. Army Air ...

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 ...

While “Unbroken” has its issues, Zamperini’s story is not one of them. But you leave the theater wanting to know more about how this man escaped the shackles of darkness and turned his ...

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 ...

In the film, Jolie’s second outing as a director, Miyavi plays Japanese army Sgt. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a twisted POW camp leader who relentlessly tortured former Olympian and Army bombardier ...

In the book, Hillenbrand depicts the treatment of Zamperini and his fellow prisoners at the hands of the sadistic Japanese Cpl. Mutsuhiro Watanabe and other prison guards in unflinching and ...

Harold Cronk's inspirational drama 'Unbroken: Path to Redemption' continues the story of Louis Zamperini after he returned home after the war and experienced a spiritual crisis.

Impeccable craftsmanship and sober restraint have been brought to bear on "Unbroken," Angelina Jolie's handsomely wrought but cumulatively underwhelming portrait of Louis Zamperini.

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 ...

Joel and Ethan Coen (each credited with the “Unbroken” screenplay) are no strangers to the idea of suffering. They made “A Serious Man” in 2009, which is essentially an entire movie dedicated to the ...

TOKYO — Angelina Jolie’s new movie “Unbroken” has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still fighting over its wartime past. And the buzz… ...