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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 is a Japanese actor who has starred in films such as The Last Samurai, Inception, and Godzilla. He was born in 1959, studied acting in England, and has a daughter and a son.
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Learn about the life and career of Ken Watanabe, a Japanese actor who starred in The Last Samurai and other Hollywood films. Find out his birth date, family, awards, trivia and quotes.
- October 21, 1959
Mar 5, 2022 · As Japan's biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe has performed in Hollywood movies such as The Last Samurai, Godzilla & Inception. But it's off the big screen where Ken plays his greatest role...
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- 'Inception' (2010) Inception is a science fiction action thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Dominick Cobb, a professional thief who steals information by penetrating his target’s subconsciousness.
- 'Batman Begins' (2005) Batman Begins is the first installment of Nolan’s Batman trilogy and it’s also Watanabe and Nolan’s first collaborative effort. The movie follows Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) as he embarks on his journey of becoming Batman.
- 'The Last Samurai' (2003) In The Last Samurai, Watanabe portrays the titular role alongside Tom Cruise who plays Captain Nathan Algren of the 7th Cavalry Regiment.
- 'Letters from Iwo Jima' (2006) As a companion piece to Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the Battle of Iwo Jima from the American point of view, Letters from Iwo Jima shows the same battle but from the Japanese soldiers’ perspective.
Apr 12, 2022 · 4.9M subscribers. Subscribed. 250. 17K views 1 year ago. Tony, Grammy and Academy-award nominee Ken Watanabe on his series "Tokyo Vice" and why he describes his character as "gray" and not...
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Apr 7, 2022 · Ken Watanabe stars alongside Ansel Elgort in the new HBO Max crime drama, which is produced and directed by filmmaker Michael Mann. Based on a true story, it dramatizes the experience of...
