Tom Cruise wants ten children

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise (C), accompanied by actresses Maggie (L) and Keri Russell (R), speaks to journalists after a news conference to promote his movie "Mission Impossible III" in Tokyo yesterday. The movie will open in Japan July 8. PHOTO: AFP

"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.

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.