Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing samurai, as in the 1987 Dokuganryu Masamune (One eyed dragon, Masamune) the 50-episode NHK taiga drama. He played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigeki Gokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons.
Ken Watanabe
Japanese actor
Ken Watanabe 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1959 (age 64 years), Hirokami, Niigata
Spouse: Kaho Minami (m. 2005–2018) and Yumiko Watanabe (m. 1983–2005)
Children: Anne Watanabe and Dai Watanabe
Parents: Ryoichi Watanabe
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