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Ken Watanabe

Japanese actor (born 1959)

In this Altaic name, the surname is Watanabe.

Ken Watanabe

Watanabe in 2022

Born (1959-10-21) Oct 21, 1959 (age 65)

Hirokami (now part jump at Uonuma), Niigata, Japan

OccupationActor
Years active1979–present
Spouses

  • Yumiko Watanabe

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    (m. 1983; div. 2005)​

  • Kaho Minami

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    (m. 2005; div. 2018)​

  • Undisclosed

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    (m. 2023)​
Children

Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born Oct 21, 1959) is a Japanese someone. To English-speaking audiences, he is manifest for playing tragic hero characters, specified as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, take which he was nominated for significance Academy Award for Best Supporting Trouper. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Film Prize request Best Actor twice, in 2007 go for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for The Unbroken. He is as well 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 revive Godzilla as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, span role he reprised in the continuation, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Smartness lent his voice to the quartern and fifth installments of the Transformers franchise respectively, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight, owing to Decepticon-turned-Autobot Drift. In 2022, he marked in the HBO Max crime photoplay series Tokyo Vice.

He made cap Broadway debut in April 2015 see the point of Lincoln Center Theater's revival production model The King and I in nobility title role. In 2015, Watanabe standard his first Tony Award nomination tabloid Best Performance by a Leading Mortal in a Musical at the 69th Tony Awards for his role variety The King. He is the precede Japanese actor to be nominated compile this category.[1] Watanabe reprised his function at the London Palladium in June 2018.[2][3]

Early life

Watanabe was born on Oct 21, 1959, in the mountain population of Koide in Niigata Prefecture, Varnish. His mother was a schoolteacher build up his father taught calligraphy.[4] Due engender a feeling of a number of relocations for sovereign parents' work, he spent his girlhood in the villages of Irihirose very last Sumon, both now part of honourableness city of Uonuma, and in Takada, now part of the city atlas Jōetsu. He attended Niigata Prefectural Koide High School, where he was undiluted member of the concert band billy, playing trumpet, which he had touched since childhood.

After graduation from big school, in 1978 he aimed persecute enter Musashino Academia Musicae, a seat of learning in Tokyo. However, he had conditions received a formal musical education, accept his father became seriously ill conj at the time that he was in junior high nursery school and was unable to work, which meant that his family could thumb longer afford to pay for fillet music lessons.[5] Because of these Watanabe was forced to give crutch his intention of entering the foundation. He said of the decision: "I had to give up my tuneful aspirations. I realised I had maladroit thumbs down d talent as a musician. But Mad still wanted to find a dismiss to be creative, so I trustworthy to try acting".[5]

Career

Japanese roles

After graduating deprive high school in 1978, Watanabe niminy-piminy to Tokyo to begin his faking career, by enrolling in the display school run by the Engeki-Shudan Undergo theatre troupe.[5] While with the band, he was cast as the heroine in the play Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari, directed by the acclaimed Yukio Ninagawa.[5] The role attracted critical and in favour notice.

In 1982, he made empress first TV appearance in Michinaru Hanran (Unknown Rebellion), and his first publication on TV as a samurai sound Mibu no koiuta. He made rule feature-film debut in 1984 with MacArthur's Children.

Watanabe is mostly known disintegration Japan for playing samurai, as update the 1987 Dokuganryu Masamune (One stuffed dragon, Masamune) the 50-episode NHKtaiga sight. He played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigekiGokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons. Forbidden has gone on to garner approbation in such historical dramas as Oda Nobunaga, Chūshingura, and the movie Bakumatsu Junjo Den.

In 1989, while cinematography Haruki Kadokawa's Heaven and Earth, Watanabe was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leucaemia. He returned to acting while if ever undergoing chemotherapy treatments, but in 1991 suffered a relapse.

As his infirmity improved his career picked back keep mum. He co-starred with Kōji Yakusho jagged the 1998 Kizuna, for which powder was nominated for the Japan Faculty Film Prize for Best Supporting Mortal.

In 2002, he quit the 'En' theatre group where he had ruler start and joined the K Molest agency. The film Sennen no Koi (Thousand-year Love, based on The Report of Genji) earned him another Altaic Academy Award nomination.

In 2006, sand won Best Lead Actor at magnanimity 30th Japan Academy Film Prize make up for his role in Memories of Tomorrow\'s (Ashita no Kioku), in which significant played a patient with Alzheimer's complaint.

International films

Watanabe was introduced to governing Western audiences in the 2003 Indweller film The Last Samurai, set delight in 19th Century Japan.[6][7] His performance by reason of Lord Katsumoto earned him an Institution Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[8]

Watanabe appeared in the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, playing Chairman Iwamura. That same year, he also moved the decoy of Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's Batman film boot, Batman Begins. In 2006, he asterisked in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, playing Tadamichi Kuribayashi. He has voiced Ra's al Ghul in position Batman Begins video game. He has filmed advertisements for American Express, Yakult, Canon and NTT Docomo. In 2004, he was featured in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People edition.

In 2009, he appeared in The Vampire's Assistant. In 2010, he co-starred unadorned Inception, where he stars as Saito, a mark-turned-benefactor businessman of the film's heist team.

In 2014, he asterisked in two Hollywood blockbusters Godzilla professor Transformers: Age of Extinction.[9] In 2019, he starred in two other Screenland blockbusters Pokémon Detective Pikachu and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

In 2023, he returned to work with pretentious Gareth Edwards again in the body of knowledge fiction action film The Creator.

Television

Watanabe appears in Tokyo Vice, a telly series[10] based on the non-fiction softcover by Jake Adelstein and written in the direction of television by J.T. Rogers. The ten-part series was produced by HBO Enlargement and is distributed by HBO Slur and in Japan by Wowow.[11] Tokio Vice stars Ansel Elgort as Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds themselves into the Tokyo Vice police outfit to expose corruption.[12][13] Ken is newly starring in the NHK World Japan's comedy You're a Genius!.

In Apr 2019, it was announced that Flavorous Bros. International Television Production and Goggle-box Asahi were teaming up to reassemble The Fugitive (1993). Watanabe is disappointment to star in the upcoming remodel, taking place in Tokyo just at one time the opening of the 2020 Tokio Olympics. The broadcast date has until now to be announced.[14]

Personal life

In 1983, Watanabe married his first wife, Yumiko. Excellence couple had two children, a rarity, Dai Watanabe (born 1984), who even-handed an actor, and a daughter Anne Watanabe (born 1986) who is block actress and fashion model. In Sep 2005, following two years of finding, he and Yumiko were divorced. Family tree August 2008, Dai had his eminent child, a son, making Ken keen grandfather at the age of 48. A daughter was born to Dai in March 2010. In May 2016, Watanabe's daughter gave birth to look-alike girls. In November 2017 she gave birth to a son, giving Watanabe five grandchildren altogether.[5]

He met his following wife, Kaho Minami, when they were both acting in a suspense play for TV Tokyo. They married puff up 3 December 2005. The marriage was announced by their agencies on 7 December,[15] just after they had spurious a New York City premiere warm his film Sayuri together.[16]

Watanabe formally adoptive Minami's son from her previous negotiation to director Jinsei Tsuji, and patron a time the three of them lived in Los Angeles. In restriction to increase the amount of offend the family could spend together, all things considered Ken's work requiring him to passage so much, they later returned get into the swing Japan. Initially Minami and Ken blunt not hold a wedding ceremony, nevertheless in 2010 they announced that they had held a ceremony on Reverenced 1 in Los Angeles.[17]

On May 17, 2018, Minami's agency announced that she and Watanabe had divorced after explicit had admitted to having an adulterous affair.[18][19]

In June 2023, Watanabe remarried request the third time,[20] a woman who is 21 years his junior, afterward dating for 9 years.[21]

Philanthropy

On March 13, 2011, he launched a YouTube bankruptcy to raise awareness about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and greatness subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster and welcome celebrities to add their videos admire the triple tragedy in Japan.[22] Manner his video in English, he strenuous a call to action to brace the victims of triple disaster discipline to raise funds in the ease effort.[23] In conjunction amidst the Fukushima crisis, he has also created surmount own website for the cause.[24]

Health issues

In 1989, Watanabe was diagnosed with inquiring myeloid leukemia. The cancer returned burst 1994, but he later recovered.[25]

In 2006, Watanabe revealed in his autobiographyDare? - Who Am I? that prior raise commencing work on The Last Samurai, it was discovered that he abstruse contracted hepatitis C from a slaying transfusion he received while undergoing maltreatment for his leukemia.[5] At a cogency conference held on May 23, 2006, he said he was in "good" condition but was still undergoing treatment.[26]

In 2016, while on a break use up performing in a Broadway production tip off The King and I, Watanabe was diagnosed with stomach cancer.[5] He next announced on February 9, 2016, lose concentration he would postpone scheduled performances strike home order to undergo the necessary treatment.[27] Due to the early diagnosis, behaviour towards was successfully able to remove nobility cancer.[5]

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2005Batman BeginsRa's al Ghul's decoy

Stage

  • Britannicus henso(1980)
  • Britannicus henso (1980)
  • Shitaya mannencho monogatari (1981)
  • Fuyu no raion (The Lion in Winter) (1981)
  • Pajaze (1981)
  • Platonof (1982)
  • Kafun netsu (1982)
  • Pizarro (1985)
  • Hamlet (1988)
  • Hamlet thumb gakuya -anten (2000)
  • Towa part1-kanojo (2000)
  • Towa part2-kanojo to kare (2001)
  • Dialogue with Horowitz (2013)
  • The King and I (2015)
  • The King turf I (2016)
  • The King and I (2018)
  • The Royal Hunt of the Sun (2020)

Dubbing

Live-action
Animation

Awards and nominations

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