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Ken Watanabe's Biography

Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken?, 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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US movie star Leonardo DiCaprio (L) and Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (R) promote their film 'Inception' in Tokyo
US movie star Leonardo DiCaprio (L) and Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (R) promote their film 'Inception' in Tokyo
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  • Andrew Garfield lands Silence role

    News Source: Starpulse | 10 days ago
    British actor Andrew Garfield has landed the lead role in Martin Scorsese's passion project Silence 25 years after the director first began drafting a script for the film. The Amazing Spider-Man star will tackle the role of Father Sebastiao Rodrigues,
  • Andrew Garfield Takes Vow Of 'Silence' For Martin Scorsese

    News Source: Movies MTV | 11 days ago
    After years and years of waiting to make it, Martin Scorsese will finally make his adaptation of "Silence," and he has found his lead...Welcome to the Dailies , where the MTV Movies team runs down all the film and television news, odds and ends that
  • It Bodes Well For Andrew Garfield That His First Post-Spider-Man Role Is A ...

    News Source: Efron Freak | 11 days ago
    For a start, he's one half of a Hollywood power-cute couple known as Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield ...And apparently Martin Scorsese thinks so too, because he cast him in his upcoming film Silence . I for one am very impressed that Martin Scorsese

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  • Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe Cast in Martin Scorsese's .....

    Blog Source: www.ropeofsilicon.com | 9 days ago
    Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe have been cast as the two lead actors in Martin Scorsese's next film Silence.
  • Andrew Garfield And Ken Watanabe Join Martin Scorsese's ...

    Blog Source: celluloidandcigaretteburns.blogspot.com | 9 days ago
    Variety (via LatinoReview) reports that Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield and go-to Japanese actor Ken Watanabe have joined Martin Scorsese's long delayed Silence. The film centres around a group of Jesuit priests who travel to Japan ...
  • Andrew Garfield to Lead Scorsese's Gestating Adaptation of '...

    Blog Source: www.firstshowing.net | 9 days ago
    Now Variety has word that production has been greenlit for June 2014 instead, and The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield will be leading the film that also has Ken Watanabe attached to a role and will also take Scorsese to Cannes to ...

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