Tom Cuise was in Japan last week with his wife, Katie Holmes, and their 2-year-old daughter, Suri, to promote his new film, "Valkyrie." As always, the star did the best he could to please his Japanese fans, spending over two hours outside a theater in Roppongi shaking hands and signing autographs; and the next day he flew from Tokyo to Osaka on a chartered plane (dubbed "Sky Cruise") with 40 lucky people selected from 3,000 applicants.
Before meeting his worshippers, Cruise attended a news conference held at The Ritz Carlton Tokyo in Roppongi on March 10, where he shared his thoughts on playing Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a heroic German officer who led a failed assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler in 1944.
"I really hate the Nazis," said the 46-year-old actor. He added that when he was in school, he studied general history, but did not know of von Stauffenberg's story until he read the script.