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Ken Watanabe

21 Oct, 1959 in Koide, 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. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

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渡邊謙渡辺 謙

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Tampopo
79% (1985)
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T.R.Y.
70% (2003)
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第三の時効
0% (1970)
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The Unbroken
67% (2009)
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Earth
76% (2007)
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All Lives
65% (2024)
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Snow Jack
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Rage
68% (2016)
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Bonds
52% (1998)