Actor · Voice actor · 1950–2025

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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13:00: average
39 min: in total

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The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci · 1987

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 epic traces the life of Puyi, last Emperor of China, from infant coronation in the Forbidden City to political re-education in a Communist prison. Shot on location in Beijing with unprecedented access, it uses scale, silence and ritual to explore how systems — imperial, colonial, fascist, communist — inscribe themselves on a single body. John Lone stars, supported by Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole and a cast of thousands. Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score anchor its formal rigour. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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Planet of the Apes

Tim Burton · 2001

Tim Burton’s 2001 Planet of the Apes is a visually rich, commercially successful remake that prioritises creature design, production scale, and tonal consistency over narrative coherence or thematic depth. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter, it recasts the ape-dominated world as a tactile, myth-saturated empire — impressive in execution, thin in conception. Critics noted its craft and score but faulted its script and ending. It earned $362 million worldwide but was not followed by a sequel.

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Travis Knight · 2016

In a fictionalised feudal Japan, a one-eyed boy named Kubo earns a living by animating paper figures with music, until his grandfather's ghostly aunts arrive to finish what took his eye in infancy. Travis Knight's directorial debut for Laika pairs handmade stop-motion craft, inspired by ukiyo-e woodblock printing, with a quest plot that leans harder on grief and loss than most animated adventures aimed at children.