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May 16, 2014 · Godzilla: Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, CJ Adams, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston. The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.
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Ken Watanabe (渡辺謙, Watanabe Ken?, born Kensaku Watanabe) is a Japanese actor. He portrays Ishiro Serizawa in Legendary Pictures' Godzilla, and reprised the role in the 2019 sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
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KEN WATANABE (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa) made his American film debut in Edward Zwick’s “The Last Samurai,” opposite Tom Cruise, for which Watanabe received Oscar®, Screen Actors Guild Award®, Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. Since then, the actor has collaborated with some of most significant filmmakers of our time. In 2006, Watanabe portrayed the courageous Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Clint Eastwood’s award-winning World War II drama “Letters from Iwo Jima.” Watanabe first worked with director Christopher Nolan on the 2005 blockbuster “Batman Begins,” and subsequently on “Inception.” For Rob Marshall, Watanabe starred in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” the lush screen adaptation of Arthur Golden’s best-selling novel. Later this year, Watanabe begins work on “Sea of Trees” for director Gus Van Sant. “Sea of Trees” is the story of a suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) who befriends a Japanese man (Watanabe) lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji. At the end of the year, Watanabe stars with Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s acclaimed novel “Silence.” Set in the 17th century, “Silence” follows two Jesuit priests who face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity. Last year, Watanabe starred in, and received a Japanese Academy Award nomination for, “Yurusarezaru mono,” Sang-il Lee’s Japanese language remake of Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven.” In 2006, Watanabe starred in and executive produced the Japanese film “Memories of Tomorrow,” for which he won a number of Best Actor awards, including the Japanese Academy Award and the Hochi Film Award. In 2009, he starred in “Shizumano Taiyô (The Unbroken),” for which he won his second Japanese Academy Award, as well as the Hochi Film Award for Best Actor. His Japanese film credits also include the international hit comedy “Tampopo,” directed by Juzo Itami, as well as “Ikebukuro West Gate Park,” “Space Travelers,” “Oboreru Sakana (Drowning Fish)” and “Shin Jinginaki Tatakai/Bosatsu (Fight Without Loyalty/Murder),” an updated version of the popular Yakuza movie series. Watanabe began his acting career with the Tokyo-based theater company En. His lead performance in the company’s production of “Shimoya Mannen-cho Monogatari,” directed by Yukio Ninawara, caught the attention of both critics and Japanese audiences. In 1982, Watanabe made his television debut with “Michinaru Hanran.” His formidable screen presence in the subsequent Samurai drama series “Dokuganryu Masamume” led to additional roles in the historical series “Oda Nobunaga” and “Chushingura,” and the film “Bakumatsu Junjou Den.” Last year, Watanabe returned to the Tokyo and Osaka stages in the comedy “Dialogue with Horowitz” by Koki Mitani. The critically acclaimed productions were sold out and later broadcast on television. Currently as of 2015, Mr. Watanabe is performing on-tour in a revival of the classic musical The King and I as the King of Saim.
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1987年、NHK 大河ドラマ「独眼竜政宗」に主演。他、数々のTVドラマ、映画、舞台に出演。2003年『ラスト サムライ』で、アカデミー賞、ゴールデン・グローブ賞の助演男優賞にノミネートされる。その後『バットマン ビギンズ』(05)と『インセプション』(10)でクリストファー・ノーランと、『SAYURI』(05)でロブ・マーシャルと、アカデミー賞作品賞にノミネートされた『硫黄島からの手紙』(06)でクリント・イーストウッドと組むなど、ハリウッドの名匠とコラボレーションを重ねてきた。次回作は、2014年アカデミー賞主演男優賞を受賞したマシュー・マコノヒーと共に、『グッド・ウィル・ハンティング／旅立ち』（97）のガス・ヴァン・サント監督最新作『Sea of Trees』が控える。
•During interviews in Japan regarding Godzilla, Mr. Watanabe revealed that he actually prefers Gamera to Godzilla, and he had never thought of considering to star in Godzilla movies in the past.
•Watanabe's wife, Kaho Minami, starred as Colonel Kumi Emori in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
1.新ハリウッド版『ＧＯＤＺＩＬＬＡ ゴジラ』にメインキャストで出演、渡辺謙「震災が日本に投げかけた問いを、ゴジラが世界に突きつける！」
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Jun 3, 2019 · Acclaimed actor Ken Watanabe returns to the MonsterVerse in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Reprising his role from Godzilla (2014) Watanabe plays Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a scientist for the Monarch organization. This time, Serizawa will witness the awakening of many more Titans on Earth, which now includes famous Kaiju from other Godzilla films.
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- 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.
Box office. $529.1 million [2] [6] [7] Godzilla is a 2014 American monster film directed by Gareth Edwards. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of Toho Co., Ltd. 's Godzilla franchise, [8] and the first film in Legendary's Monsterverse franchise. It is also the 30th film in the Godzilla ...
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May 17, 2014 · Ken Watanabe Talks GODZILLA, the Nature of the Monster, His Connection to the Original Film, and More. Now playing in theaters around the world is director Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla . Produced by ...
Aug 28, 2019 · In the film, Ken Watanabe's character, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a member of the Monarch organization, sacrifices himself to heal Godzilla so that the massive beast can fight King Ghidora in order to ...
