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| Name: | Kensaku Watanabe | |||||
| Native name: | 渡辺 謙 | |||||
| Stage name: | Ken Watanabe | |||||
| Native stage name: | 渡辺 謙 | |||||
| Date of birth: | October 21, 1959 | |||||
| Birthplace: | Hirokami, Niigata, Japan | |||||
| Country: | Japan | |||||
| Debut date: | 1982 | |||||
| Years active: | 1979-present | |||||
| Agency: | K Dash | |||||
| Education: | Niigata Prefectural Koide High School | |||||
| Relations: | Undisclosed, wife (Married in 2023) Kaho Minami, former wife (Married in 2005, Divorced in 2018) Yumiko Watanabe, former wife (Married in 1983, Divorced in 2005) Anne Watanabe, daughter Dai Watanabe, son |
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| Description | |
| Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙) is a Japanese actor. He made his acting debut in 1982 with the television series Michinaru Hanran (Unknown Rebellion). In 2003 he nade his Hollywoood debut with the film The Last Samurai. |
| Filmography | |
| Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) as Date Masamune Oda Nobunaga (1989) as Oda Nobunaga Baian: The Assassin (1990) as Fujieda Baian Bakumatsu Junjoden (1991) as Sakamoto Ryoma Ganryujima: Kojiro to Musashi (1992) as Sasaki Kojiro Homura Tatsu (1993) as Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo / Fujiwara no Yasuhira Gokenin Zankurō (1995) as Zankurō Matsudaira Chuushingura (1996) as Wakisaka Awaji Mamoru Gokenin Zankurō Season 2 (1997) as Zankurō Matsudaira Gokenin Zankurō Season 3 (1997) as Zankurō Matsudaira Gokenin Zankurō Season 4 (1999) as Zankurō Matsudaira Chūshingura 1/47 (2001) as Cameo Genji: A Thousand-Year Love (2001) as Fujiwara Michinaga / Fujiwara Nobutaka Gokenin Zankurō Season 5 (2001) as Zankurō Matsudaira Hōjō Tokimune (2001) as Hōjō Tokiyori The Last Samurai (2003) as Katsumoto Moritsugu Tenkirimatsu Dark Story (2004) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Chairman Ken Iwamura Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi Clouds Over the Hill (2009) as Narrator Shanghai (2010) as Captain Tanaka Segodon (2018) as Shimazu Nariakira Unbound (2025) as Tanuma Okitsugu Samurai Vengeance (2026) as Shinoda Kinji |
| Filmography as director | |
| Gokenin Zankurō Season 5 (2001) |
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