Ken Watanabe

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Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959), is a Japanese actor of numerous roles in both Japan and America. His most well-known ones includes General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima, Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai (for which he got nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2003 Academy Award), Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins _{or so he makes you think}, Mr. Saito in Inception, Doctor Ishiro Serizawa in the 2014 Godzilla film and its sequel King of the Monsters, and Lt. Yoshida in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

In terms of foreign dubbing, outside of often dubbing himself over into Japanese, he's voiced Rhett Butler in the TV Tokyo dub of Gone with the Wind, John Rambo in the NTV dub of First Blood and more recently Kiros in Mufasa: The Lion King.

On February 9, 2016, Watanabe had been diagnosed with stomach cancer and would postpone scheduled performances to undergo necessary treatment.<ref>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67b381d5004443cfb2f4cc7262afcf3d/tony-nominated-actor-ken-watanabe-battling-stomach-cancer</ref>

Roles

Transformers: Age of Extinction

• Drift

Transformers: The Last Knight

• Drift

Notes

• A Japanese MSN article claimed that Watanabe would be voicing Drift in both the English and Japanese language versions of Age of Extinction.<ref>http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/news/140727/ent14072712050003-n1.htm</ref> When the film was released in Japan, however, Drift was dubbed by actor Kiyomitsu Mizūchi. Whether Watanabe's Japanese performance was replaced or if MSN misinterpreted the facts (as Watanabe does speak Japanese in the English version of the film) is unknown.

References

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External links

• Ken Watanabe at the Internet Movie Database
• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ken Watanabe|{{#if:Ken Watanabe at Wikipedia|Ken Watanabe at Wikipedia|Ken Watanabe}}]]
• [[wikipedia:{{#if:ja|ja:}}渡辺謙|{{#if:Ken Watanabe at Japanese Wikipedia|Ken Watanabe at Japanese Wikipedia|渡辺謙}}]]