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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.
Ken Watanabe
Xu Shang-Chi (徐尚氣)
for Xu Shang-Chi (徐尚氣) in Shang Chi 2012
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Shang Chi is a 2012 epic period action drama film directed and co-produced by Peter Jackson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Ken Watanabe in the title role, with Rinko Kikuchi, Yukie Nakama, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Koyuki, and Shin Koyamada in supporting roles. Ken Watanabe portrays the Chinese Hero, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai war. The film's plot was inspired by the American Revolution and the French and Indian War. The film was the first film to reach a runtime of 6 hours. The film has Iconic moments such as the Boston Tea Party, Battle of Bunker hill and Battle of The Chesapeake bay. Shang Chi grossed a total of $1.257 Billion at the box office and received positive reviews, with praise for the acting, visuals and Zimmer's score but criticism for some of its portrayals. It was nominated for several awards, including four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two National Board of Review Awards.
