Wes Anderson Royal Tenenbaums" was nominated for an Academy Award and ranked by an "Empire" poll as the 159th greatest film ever made. Anderson's next feature was "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004) about a Jacques Cousteau-esque documentary filmmaker played by Bill Murray. It serves as a classic example of Anderson's style, but its critical reception was less favorable than his previous films, and its box office did not match the heights of "The Royal Tenenbaums". In September 2006, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen released a tongue-in-cheek "letter of intervention" for Anderson's artistic "malaise" following the disappointing commercial and
Haruhiko Yamanouchi Chinese Restaurant" (1981), "2020 Texas Gladiators" (1982), "The Sword of the Barbarians" (1982), "2019, After the Fall of New York" (1983), "Endgame" (1983), "Warriors of the Year 2072" (1984) and "Under the Chinese Restaurant" (1987). Yamanouchi starred in Adriano Celentano's musical "Joan Lui" (1985) and in Gabriele Salvatores's science-fiction film "Nirvana" (1997). He also starred in several American productions, such as Stuart Gordon's "Robot Jox" (1990), Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), Paul McGuigan's "Push" (2009) and Peter Weir's "The Way Back" (2010). He most notably portrayed the main antagonist Ichirō Yashida / Silver Samurai in "The