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    Ken Watanabe

    Japanese actor (born 1959)

    In this Japanese name, the surname is Watanabe.

    Ken Watanabe

    Watanabe in 2022

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

    Hirokami (now part of 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 October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor, best 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 Memo