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Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ken Watanabe. Actor: The Last Samurai. Ken Watanabe was born on October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan. Both of his parents were teachers: his mother taught general education and his dad taught calligraphy.
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Ken Watanabe. Actor: The Last Samurai. Ken Watanabe was born on October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan. Both of his parents were teachers: his mother taught general education and his dad taught calligraphy.
- October 21, 1959
Highest Rated: 100% Tampopo (1985) Lowest Rated: 4% Shanghai (2010) Birthday: Oct 21, 1959. Birthplace: Koide, Niigata, Japan. It is no wonder that actor Ken Watanabe has played many roles as a...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit67%76%Harun (Character)No Score YetNo Score YetUnknown (Voice)67%65%Masao Yoshida (Character)42%83%Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Character)- Tampopo (1985) It only took three movies for Watanabe to end up in the world of classic cinema. In his early 20s, the actor played a supporting role in Juzo Itami's surreal comedic masterpiece about the relationship between food, sex, and happiness.
- The Last Samurai (2003) Director Edward Zwick's historical epic, a box office hit at the time both in the United States and Japan, is sometimes dinged in retrospect for the incongruity of its title and the decidedly non-Japanese protagonist played by Tom Cruise.
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Released nearly simultaneously with Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers in order to show both sides of a major World War II battle, Letters from Iwo Jima was originally supposed to be helmed by a different director.
- Inception (2010) After a fake-out role in Batman Begins — where he initially seems to be portraying big bad Ra's al Ghul only to be revealed as a decoy — Watanabe took on a more important character in his next collaboration with director Christopher Nolan.
May 24, 2022 · Ken Watanabe on Filming the ‘Tense,’ ‘Scary’ Finale to ‘Tokyo Vice’ and Plans for an ‘Exciting’ Season 2. "It's more exciting. Season 2 is more complicated," the actor and executive producer...
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Mar 4, 2021 · Japan completes 5th round of Fukushima treated water discharge. When northeast Japan marks the 10th anniversary of the megaquake and tsunami that hit the region on March 11, 2011, triggering a subsequent nuclear disaster, actor Ken Watanabe, despite a decade-long effort to meet with survivors to offer solace and encouragement, doesn't intend to ...
