Ken Watanabe

Actor, Director

10/21/1959 (62 years old) Koide, Niigata, Japan

Filmography Facts Awards

Movies

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Godzilla (2014)

Letters from Iwo Jima

Godzilla: King Of The Monsters

The Last Samurai (2003)

Inception

Batman Begins

Inception (plus Bonus Features)

Memoirs of a Geisha

Godzilla (2014) (+ Bonus)

Silence

Breakout role in Japan came with the popular 1985 comedy Tompopo (Dandelion).
Was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989 but continued to act while undergoing chemotherapy; suffered a relapse in 1994 that kept him in the hospital for more than a year.
Made his American film debut in the 2003 epic The Last Samurai.
In 2005, began treatment for hepatitis C, contracted while undergoing blood transfusions during his first bout of leukemia.

Golden Globe

Critics' Choice Awards

Oscar

Screen Actors Guild Awards

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