Ken Watanabe

(1959-)

Japanese actor

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Ken Watanabe (渡辺謙, Watanabe Ken; born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor. He is best 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, Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for The Unbroken. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu.

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Born	Kensaku Watanabe 21 October 1959 (age 65) Uonuma, Japan
Zodiac	Libra
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Yumiko Watanabe - · · m. 1983; div. 2005 info edit

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Kaho Minami 1964- · Japanese actress of Korean descent · m. 2005; div. 2018 info edit

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Dai Watanabe info 1st child with Yumiko Watanabe Male b. 1 Aug 1984 · Age: 41 · 1984- · Japanese actor

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Anne Watanabe info 2nd child with Yumiko Watanabe Female b. 14 Apr 1986 · Age: 39 · 1986- · Japanese actress and model

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