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2	[[caption-width-right:280:''[[{{Film/Inception}} I bought the airline. (beat) It seemed neater.]]'' ]]
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4	->''"If the script is good, the cast and director good, I'll go anywhere."''
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6	Ken Watanabe ((渡辺謙, born October 21, 1959 in Koide, Niigata Prefecture) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese actor.
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8	He started his acting career in the Land of the Rising Sun in TheEighties. Internationally, he is certainly one of the best known current actors from there, due to his prominent parts in a number of high profile Hollywoodian productions starting with ''Film/TheLastSamurai''.
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10	Not related to Creator/AkenoWatanabe.
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12	!!Partial filmography:
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14	* ''Film/{{Tampopo}}'' as Gun
15	* ''Dokuganryu Masamune'' as UsefulNotes/DateMasamune
16	* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' as Katsumoto
17	* ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' as the Chairman
18	* ''Film/BatmanBegins'' as Ra's al Ghul's decoy
19	* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
20	* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' as the voice of Rhett Butler in the Japanese dub
21	* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' as Saito
22	* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' (Japanese remake) as Jubei Kamata
23	* Film/MonsterVerse as Doctor Ishiro Serizawa
24	** ''Film/{{Godzilla\|2014}}''
25	** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''
26	* Film/TransformersFilmSeries as Drift
27	** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''
28	** ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''
29	* ''Film/TheSeaOfTrees'' as Takumi
30	* ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'' as Head Surgeon
31	* ''Segodon'' as Shimazu Nariakira
32	* ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' as Detective Hide Yoshida
33	* ''Series/TokyoVice'' as Hiroto Katagiri
34	* ''Film/{{The Creator\|2023}}'' as Harun
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36	!!Tropes to be found in his works:
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38	* TheBigGuy: At about 6'1, he's very tall, especially by Japanese standards where the average male height is about 5'7.
39	* {{Samurai}}: His most famous Japanese role was as Date Masamune in the 1987 Creator/{{NHK}} drama ''Dokuganryu Masamune''. And his most famous international role was also a samurai, Katsumoto, in ''The Last Samurai''. 2018 sees this piled up with another NHK drama, ''Segodon'', where he plays 19th century Satsuma daimyo Shimazu Nariakira -- who, coincidentally, was the lord of Saigo Takamori, the RealLife basis for ''The Last Samurai''. Even Drift, a voiced character in the ''Transformers'' film series, is deliberately samurai themed.
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41	-->''"We call him...[[Film/Godzilla2014 Gojira]]."''

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