Search results
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.
- Anne Watanabe
Anne Watanabe (渡辺 杏, Watanabe An, born 14 April 1986 in...
- Memories of Tomorrow
Ashita no Kioku/Memories of Tomorrow (明日の記憶, Ashita no...
- Anne Watanabe
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. He became interested in acting at the age of 24, when a director of England's National Theater Company, where he was studying, told him that ...
- January 1, 1
- 1.85 m
- Uonuma, Japan
May 20, 2022 · Watanabe was heartbroken after the devastating triple disaster in 2011, when an earthquake and a tsunami struck Japan’s north-east coast, triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima. More than ...
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. He became interested in acting at the age of 24, when a director of England's National Theater Company, where he was studying, told him that acting was his special gift. In 1978, he moved to ...
- October 21, 1959
Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, movie, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing characters such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima .
- 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
- 1979–present
- Actor
People also ask
Who is Ken Watanabe?
When was Watanabe born?
Does Ken Watanabe speak English?
What movies did Watanabe play in?
Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, the eponymous "Last Samurai," a former daimyo who was once Emperor Meiji's most trusted teacher. His displeasure with the influence of Omura and other Western reformers on the Emperor lead him to organize his fellow samurai in a revolt, which he hopes will convince the government not to destroy the ...
Ken Watanabe 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. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for ...
