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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 Actor.
Anne Watanabe. 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. [3]
Running time. 135 minutes. Country. Japan. Languages. Japanese Ainu. Unforgiven (許されざる者, Yurusarezaru Mono) is a 2013 Japanese jidaigeki Western film written and directed by Lee Sang-il. It is a remake of Clint Eastwood 's 1992 western Unforgiven, written by David Peoples. The film was screened in the Special Presentation section at ...
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).
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 ...
Japan. Language. Japanese. Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, literally "dandelion") is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first " ramen Western ", a play on the term spaghetti Western.
Release date. 2006. (2006) Country. Japan. Language. Japanese. Ashita no Kioku/Memories of Tomorrow (明日の記憶, Ashita no Kioku) is a 2006 Japanese drama film starring Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. The film is based on a novel of the same title published by Hiroshi Ogiwara in 2004.
Box office. $7.4 miilion [3] Fukushima 50 is a 2020 Japanese disaster drama film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu and written by Yōichi Maekawa. Starring Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, it is about the titular group of employees tasked with handling the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and ...