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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 ...
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, height, family, awards, trivia and quotes.
- October 21, 1959
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor who has starred in many films, including Inception, Godzilla, The Last Samurai, and Memoirs of a Geisha. He was born in 1959 and survived leukemia in the 1990s. See his highest and lowest rated movies, photos, and TV credits.
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit67%Fresh audience score. 76%Harun (Character)No Score YetNo Score YetUnknown (Voice)67%Fresh audience score. 65%Masao Yoshida (Character)42%Fresh audience score. 83%Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Character)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 real...
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Feb 10, 2016 · Ken Watanabe has undergone surgery after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. According to a post on the Japanese actor’s official Facebook page, “Ken has undergone laparoscopic...
May 1, 2020 · When Ken Watanabe was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and an Oscar for his role as Lord Katsumoto in 2003’s The Last Samurai, he easily became the best-known Japanese actor in the world.
