Ken Watanabe
Also known as
- (渡辺 謙 Watanabe Ken)
is a Academy Award-nominated Japan stage, film, and television 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 in The Last Samurai.
Born Ken Watanabe in Koide, Niigata prefecture, his mother was a school teacher and his father taught calligraphy.
After graduating from high school in 1978, Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, getting his big break with the...
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