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Ken Watanabe

Actor

Ken Watanabe

Acting
1985 — present · 17 films
Born
21 October 1959 · age 66
From
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese 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 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 Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō.

Career Signature

How Ken Watanabe’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.