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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41by Takehiko Yamanashi, Masaaki Iwata, Naho Kamiya, Kyohei Tsunetomi, Naofumi Kajitani, Nodoka Wada, Takahiro Iitsuka, Takahira Yamauchi, Akihiko Miura, Shenghong Pu, Yukihiko Shirayama, Ken Watanabe, Ronald S. Duman, Koichi KanekoGet full text
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42by Setsuko Shioda, Fumio Kasai, Ken Watanabe, Kohei Kawakami, Azusa Ohtani, Masashi Iemura, Midori Ozawa, Akemi Arakawa, Noriko Hirayama, Eiko Kawaguchi, Tomoko Tano, Sayaka Miyata, Motonobu Satoh, Norio Shimizu, Arihiro KoharaGet full text
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43by Takehiko Yamanashi, Masaaki Iwata, Midori Shibushita, Kyohei Tsunetomi, Mayu Nagata, Naofumi Kajitani, Akihiko Miura, Ryoichi Matsuo, Tsuyoshi Nishiguchi, Takahiro A. Kato, Daiki Setoyama, Yukihiko Shirayama, Ken Watanabe, Gen Shinozaki, Koichi KanekoGet full text
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44by Ken Watanabe, Taro Narumi, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoichiro Otaki, Tetsuya Takahashi, Tomonori Aono, Jun Goto, Taku Toshima, Takayuki Sugai, Masahiro Wanezaki, Daisuke Kutsuzawa, Shigehiko Kato, Harutoshi Tamura, Satoshi Nishiyama, Hiroki Takahashi, Takanori Arimoto, Tetsuro Shishido, Masafumi WatanabeGet full text
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45by Toshimitsu Suzuki, Toshifumi Suzuki, Matthieu Raveau, Noriko Miyake, Genki Sudo, Yoshinori Tsurusaki, Takaki Watanabe, Yuki Sugaya, Tetsuya Tatsukawa, Emi Mazaki, Atsushi Shimohata, Itaru Kushima, Branko Aleksic, Tomoko Shiino, Tomoko Toyota, Yoshimi Iwayama, Kentaro Nakaoka, Iori Ohmori, Aya Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Shinichi Hirose, Sunao Kaneko, Yushi Inoue, Takeo Yoshikawa, Norio Ozaki, Masanobu Kano, Takeyoshi Shimoji, Naomichi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro YamakawaGet full text
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46by Akinori Miyashita, Asako Koike, Gyungah Jun, Li-San Wang, Satoshi Takahashi, Etsuro Matsubara, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Mikio Shoji, Naoki Tomita, Hiroyuki Arai, Takashi Asada, Yasuo Harigaya, Masaki Ikeda, Masakuni Amari, Haruo Hanyu, Susumu Higuchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masaichi Suga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Kenji Kosaka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Masaki Imagawa, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Masahito Yamada, Takashi Morihara, Masatoshi Takeda, Takeo Takao, Kenji Nakata, Yoshikatsu Fujisawa, Ken Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Kenji Nakashima, Katsuya Urakami, Terumi Ooya, Mitsuo Takahashi, Takefumi Yuzuriha, Kayoko Serikawa, Seishi Yoshimoto, Ryuji Nakagawa, Jong-Won Kim, Chang-Seok Ki, Hong-Hee Won, Duk L Na, Sang Won Seo, Inhee Mook-Jung, Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium, Peter St George-Hyslop, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L Haines, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Makiko Yoshida, Nao Nishida, Katsushi Tokunaga, Ken Yamamoto, Shoji Tsuji, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yasuo Ihara, Gerard D Schellenberg, Lindsay A Farrer, Ryozo KuwanoGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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47by Akinori Miyashita, Asako Koike, Gyungah Jun, Li-San Wang, Satoshi Takahashi, Etsuro Matsubara, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Mikio Shoji, Naoki Tomita, Hiroyuki Arai, Takashi Asada, Yasuo Harigaya, Masaki Ikeda, Masakuni Amari, Haruo Hanyu, Susumu Higuchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masaichi Suga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Kenji Kosaka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Masaki Imagawa, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Masahito Yamada, Takashi Morihara, Masatoshi Takeda, Takeo Takao, Kenji Nakata, Yoshikatsu Fujisawa, Ken Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Kenji Nakashima, Katsuya Urakami, Terumi Ooya, Mitsuo Takahashi, Takefumi Yuzuriha, Kayoko Serikawa, Seishi Yoshimoto, Ryuji Nakagawa, Jong-Won Kim, Chang-Seok Ki, Hong-Hee Won, Duk L. Na, Sang Won Seo, Inhee Mook-Jung, The Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium, Peter St. George-Hyslop, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L. Haines, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Makiko Yoshida, Nao Nishida, Katsushi Tokunaga, Ken Yamamoto, Shoji Tsuji, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yasuo Ihara, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Lindsay A. Farrer, Ryozo KuwanoGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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48by Akinori Miyashita, Asako Koike, Gyungah Jun, Li-San Wang, Satoshi Takahashi, Etsuro Matsubara, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Mikio Shoji, Naoki Tomita, Hiroyuki Arai, Takashi Asada, Yasuo Harigaya, Masaki Ikeda, Masakuni Amari, Haruo Hanyu, Susumu Higuchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masaichi Suga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Kenji Kosaka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Masaki Imagawa, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Masahito Yamada, Takashi Morihara, Masatoshi Takeda, Takeo Takao, Kenji Nakata, Yoshikatsu Fujisawa, Ken Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Kenji Nakashima, Katsuya Urakami, Terumi Ooya, Mitsuo Takahashi, Takefumi Yuzuriha, Kayoko Serikawa, Seishi Yoshimoto, Ryuji Nakagawa, Jong-Won Kim, Chang-Seok Ki, Hong-Hee Won, Duk L. Na, Sang Won Seo, Inhee Mook-Jung, Peter St. George-Hyslop, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L. Haines, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Makiko Yoshida, Nao Nishida, Katsushi Tokunaga, Ken Yamamoto, Shoji Tsuji, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yasuo Ihara, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Lindsay A. Farrer, Ryozo KuwanoGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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