Ken Watanabe
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 Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Film 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 Christopher Nolan's films ''Batman Begins'' and ''Inception'', as well as ''Memoirs of a Geisha'', and ''Pokémon Detective Pikachu''.In 2014, he starred in the reboot ''Godzilla'' as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a role he reprised in the sequel, ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters''. He lent his voice to the fourth and fifth installments of the ''Transformers'' franchise respectively, ''Transformers: Age of Extinction'' and ''Transformers: The Last Knight'', as Decepticon-turned-Autobot Drift. In 2022, he starred in the HBO Max crime drama series ''Tokyo Vice''.
He made his Broadway debut in April 2015 in Lincoln Center Theater's revival production of ''The King and I'' in the title role. In 2015, Watanabe received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 69th Tony Awards for his role as The King. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category. Watanabe reprised his role at the London Palladium in June 2018. Provided by Wikipedia
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22by Kochi Toyomane, Ryo Yokota, Ken Watanabe, Tomoko Akutsu, Ai Asahi, Satoshi KubotaGet full text
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25by Ryunosuke OKUDA, Kota NAKANO, Koichi SUEMATSU, Ken WATANABE, Anna ILNICKA, Jerzy P. ŁUKASZEWICZ, Kengo SHIMANOEGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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30by Ken Watanabe, Koji Otabe, Norio Shimizu, Keiichirou Komori, Mitsuru Mizuno, Hisako Katano, Hideyuki Koga, Ichiro SekiyaGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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34by Daisuke Watanabe, Takahiro Kimura, Ken Watanabe, Hiromitsu Takano, Yuko Uehara, Tadaaki Minowa, Akemi Yamashita, Seiichiro Yoshikawa, Akio MizushimaGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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38by Masato Yano, Tadashi Yamamoto, Naotaka Nishimura, Tomomi Gotoh, Ken Watanabe, Kazutaka Ikeda, Yohei Garan, Ryo Taguchi, Koichi Node, Toshiro Okazaki, Yuichi OikeGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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39by Kenji Wada-Isoe, Satoru Ito, Tadashi Adachi, Mika Yamawaki, Satoko Nakashita, Masayoshi Kusumi, Yu Hiroe, Teruo Takada, Ken Watanabe, Chikanori Hikasa, Kenji NakashimaGet full text
Published 2012-09-01
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40by Ken Watanabe, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoichiro Otaki, Tetsuro Shishido, Takayo Murase, Takashi Nakamura, Shigehiko Kato, Harutoshi Tamura, Satoshi Nishiyama, Hiroki Takahashi, Takanori Arimoto, Masafumi WatanabeGet full text
Published 2020-08-01
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