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  2. Ken Watanabe - Wikipedia

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    Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is 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 ...

  3. Watanabe - Wikipedia

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    Watanabe. Watanabe (渡辺 and other variants [note 1]) is a Japanese surname derived from the noble and samurai Watanabe clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, descending from the Emperor Saga (786-842), the 52nd Emperor of Japan, and refers to a location called 'Watanabe no tsu' which was settled by the Watanabe clan, who took the name of the ...

  4. Anne Watanabe - Wikipedia

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    Anne Watanabe (渡辺 杏, Watanabe An, born 14 April 1986 in Tokyo) is a Japanese fashion model, actress, and singer. [2] She is the daughter of film actor Ken Watanabe and his first wife Yumiko. In her modeling work, she is known by the mononym Anne .

  5. Kaho Minami - Wikipedia

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    Life and career. Kaho Minami was born on January 20, 1964, in Amagasaki in Hyogo, Japan, and is of third-generation Korean descent. She graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama & Music in Tokyo, Japan. While attending college, Minami auditioned for the first time and got the main role in her debut film, Kohei Oguri ’s For Kanako (1984).

  6. Memoirs of a Geisha (film) - Wikipedia

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    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. [2] [3] It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym "Sayuri Nitta."

  7. Ken Watabe - Wikipedia

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    Ken Watabe (渡部建, Watabe Ken, born 23 September 1972), [1] is a Japanese comedian and television presenter. He performs tsukkomi in the comedy duo "Unjash" with his partner Kazuya Kojima. [1] Watabe currently serves as a co-MC with Chisato Moritaka in the Fuji TV program Love Music. [2]

  8. Letters from Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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    Letters from Iwo Jima. Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to ...

  9. Segodon - Wikipedia

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    December 16, 2018. (2018-12-16) Segodon (西郷どん, Mr. Saigō in Kagoshima dialect [1]) is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. [2] It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori, who has been dubbed the last true samurai.

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