BEIJING, June 21 -- Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise says he would be happy to father ten children following the arrival of his first baby girl with fiancee Katie Holmes.

    "I always wanted to be a father. I remember my whole life, I wanted to be a father. So I'm hoping maybe I have 10 children," he said with laughter at a press conference in Tokyo.

    Cruise, 43, also has two adopted children from a previous marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, who is now set to wed country music singer Keith Urban.

    Asked how he felt about his new baby, Suri, who was born in April, Cruise said, "Very, very very happy."

    "It was the best Father's Day," he said of Sunday which he spent with his children and Holmes.

    "I think you all know how, what a gift it is, children," he said.

    "I feel the responsibility of that, because they are the future. So I feel so overwhelmed with emotion at times when I look at my children, which I think we all know when you are looking at your own child you love so much."

    Cruise, ranked last week by Forbes magazine as the world's most powerful celebrity, was in Tokyo to promote "Mission Impossible 3," which is partially set in Shanghai.

    He met with Japanese Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa about the possibility of filming the next in the action series in Tokyo.

    "We will do the best possible to cooperate if the film is shot in Tokyo," Kitagawa told him, as quoted by a ministry official.

    Kitagawa also thanked him for his portrayal of Japanese culture in 2003's "The Last Samurai," in which Cruise plays an American who learns the way of Japan's former knights.

    (Source: China Daily)