DIGGER is in Japanese release, having opened on October 9, 2026. Its director and star have since given interviews in Japan addressing the film's divided reception and the ensemble's rehearsal process.
DIGGER is Tom Cruise's film with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil company CEO whose greed triggers a global crisis. The campaign built that against-type role into the pitch: a July trailer showed Cruise white-haired and pot-bellied, and a September trailer carried the tagline "With great power comes great evasion of responsibility." A June trailer titled "Tom Cruise's 45-Year Journey" cut footage from Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men, the Mission: Impossible series and The Last Samurai into the film. Cruise said at CinemaCon it took him 40 years to be able to play the role.
The Japanese release is dated October 9, 2026, with a U.S. opening on October 2. The Japanese dub assembles veteran voice actors around Toshiyuki Morikawa as Digger Rockwell, with Kotono Mitsuishi, Tomokazu Seki, Tsutomu Isobe, Manabu Muraji, Fumihiko Tachiki and Yuichiro Umehara also in the cast, and screenings in IMAX and Dolby Cinema. Ahead of the opening, Ken Watanabe released a comment saying he traded blows with the film for 129 minutes with no guard up and was completely knocked out. Cruise and Iñárritu were due in Japan from October 5 to 7, and during the stop they visited MAPPA EXPO 15th Anniversary at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM, touring the Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man areas and the Rumbling exhibit from Attack on Titan The Final Season.
Once in Japan, the promotion turned to the film's reception and its method. Iñárritu said the story's structure lets audiences arrive at the truth gradually and that a second viewing reaches deeper layers, and he described the split response as what that structure sets out to produce. Sandra Huller, who plays Digger's younger sister Emma, and Riz Ahmed, who plays the scientist Ganesh, said the whole ensemble built its characters together, going straight into rehearsal after receiving the script; Huller worked from the outside in with costume and wig. A talk between YOASOBI and Cruise, held during the Japan tour, was set for YOASOBI's official YouTube channel on October 16 at 20:00, with Ayase, ikura and Cruise discussing how they make things.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu came to Japan for the release of DIGGER and gave an interview about the film's divided reception. He said the story's structure lets audiences arrive at the truth gradually, and that a second viewing reaches deeper layers of the work. The film stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, an oil company CEO whose greed triggers a global crisis.
A talk video between YOASOBI and Tom Cruise will be released on YOASOBI's official YouTube channel on Friday, October 16 at 20:00. The talk was held during the Japan promotional tour for Tom Cruise's film DIGGER, which has been in Japanese release since October 9. Ayase, ikura, and Cruise discussed their approaches to making things.
Sandra Huller and Riz Ahmed, key cast members of Tom Cruise's film DIGGER, described in a remote interview how the whole ensemble built its characters together. Huller plays Digger's younger sister Emma and Ahmed the scientist Ganesh. Huller said she worked from the outside in, using costume and wig, while Ahmed said the cast went straight into rehearsal after receiving the script.
Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu visited MAPPA EXPO 15th Anniversary at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM in Tokyo while promoting their film DIGGER. They toured the Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man areas, viewed The Rumbling exhibit from Attack on Titan The Final Season, and held a roundtable with animator Yoshihisa Hiramatsu, who gave them a new illustration of Cruise's character Digger Rockwell.
Ken Watanabe has released a comment on DIGGER, the Tom Cruise film directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu that opens in Japan on October 9. Watanabe, who saw it early, wrote that he traded blows with the film for 129 minutes with no guard up and was completely knocked out. The film opened in the U.S. on October 2, and Cruise and Inarritu are due in Japan from October 5 to 7.
The Japanese dub cast for DIGGER, opening October 9, has been announced. Toshiyuki Morikawa plays Digger Rockwell, the role Tom Cruise plays in the film. Kotono Mitsuishi, Tomokazu Seki, Tsutomu Isobe, Manabu Muraji, Fumihiko Tachiki and Yuichiro Umehara also join. Screenings will run in IMAX and Dolby Cinema.
A new trailer and visual for DIGGER, the Tom Cruise film directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu, arrived ahead of its October 9 opening in Japan. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil drilling CEO whose profit-first decisions trigger a crisis threatening Earth's destruction. The trailer carries the tagline "With great power comes great evasion of responsibility." Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller and Michael Stuhlbarg co-star.
The new trailer and poster for 'DIGGER', Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film, reveal Cruise plays a greedy oil CEO named Digger Rockwell whose actions cause Earth's destruction. The Japanese release date is October 9. Cruise's appearance is drastically different: white-haired, pot-bellied, making vulgar jokes. He also opened a TikTok account.
Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu released a trailer for the film 'DIGGER' on June 24, 2026. The trailer, titled 'Tom Cruise's 45-Year Journey,' is a montage of clips from Cruise's past films including 'Top Gun,' 'Jerry Maguire,' 'A Few Good Men,' the 'Mission: Impossible' series, and 'The Last Samurai,' leading into footage from 'DIGGER.' The film is described as an 'extraordinary disaster comedy' about a man named Digger Rockwell who holds the fate of the world after causing a disaster. Cruise said at CinemaCon that it took him 40 years to be able to play this role. Three teaser posters were also released, showing Digger with a gun from various angles. The film is scheduled for a 2026 release in Japan and an October 2, 2026 release in the United States. A new trailer is set for July 14.