Ken Watanabe

Age: 66

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Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television 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. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

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Ken Watanabe

Everwraith

for Everwraith in Big Hero 6

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Big Hero 6

Set in the futuristic city of New Osaka, teenage robotics genius Hiro Takachiho and his compassionate healthcare robot Baymax team up with four brilliant young innovators to stop the ruthless Doctor Hachi from using stolen alien technology to seize control of Earth's global technology network. As they become the superhero team Big Hero 6, they discover that their greatest strength isn't their inventions—it's the family they build while protecting the world from a threat unlike any the Marvel Cinematic Universe has faced.

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Ken Watanabe

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Big Hero 6

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