Ken Watanabe - Actors
is a Japanese Oscar-nominated stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, including such roles as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category. ....more
Ken Watanabe News
May 29, 2008, 12:55 GMT
Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Universal Pictures upcoming adaptation of Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak. ...
moreFeb 4, 2008, 13:51 GMT
Ken Watanabe has signed on to join John Cusack and Gong Li in The Weinstein Co. upcoming film Shanghai - a period drama scheduled to start shooting in China in March. ...
moreMay 21, 2007, 16:05 GMT
Director Clint Eastwood was so fascinated by the stories of the Japanese defense of Iwo Jima while filming Flags of our Fathers that he decided to tell the tale from the other side of the rifle and rushed this film into production. It was an inspired choice since the film was nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. ...
moreNov 18, 2006, 5:02 GMT
‘Letters From Iwo Jima,’ Clint Eastwood’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed World War II drama ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ will open domestically in limited release in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 20, 2006. ...
moreMar 30, 2006, 12:29 GMT
Director Rob Marshall (who also directed Chicago) brings the hit novel Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden to the big screen in a lavish production that went on to be nominated for 6, but winner of 3, Academy Awards (Best Art Direction, Cinematography, and Costume Design). ...
moreNov 25, 2005, 19:45 GMT
Ken gets personal with a Japanese film about Alzheimers ...
moreOct 23, 2005, 20:07 GMT
Buffy beats up a criminal Chinese proverb in Mexico City ... more
Aug 20, 2004, 0:49 GMT
Ken Watanabe ('The Last Samurai') has been signed and will be joined by a spectacular ensemble of international actors led by Zhang Ziyi ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'), Gong Li ('Raise The Red Lantern'), Michelle Yeoh ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'), Youki Kudoh ('Snow Falling on Cedars') and Koji Yakusho ('Shall We Dance?') who are in final negotiations to star in Columbia Pictures / DreamWorks Films / Spyglass Entertainment's feature film adaptation of 'Memoirs of A Geisha'. ...
moreAug 4, 2004, 6:50 GMT
New photos have appeared online of Ken Watanabe as Ra's Al Ghul. ... more
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