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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.
Solarcraft is a 2022 American science fiction drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is about a wilderness adventurer who is sent in 1972 to the planet Neptune by her father. A co-production by Legendary Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, with a story by David S. Goyer, the film stars Anne Hathaway, who is supported by Kaya Scodelario, Jack Quaid, Ken Watanabe, James Purefoy, Morgan Freeman, Naomie Harris, Will Patton, Melissa McBride, and Michael Caine. Solarcraft had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on November 30th, 2022, and was released on December 7th. It was a financial success, grossing over $971 million worldwide against a $130 million budget and a break-even point of $100 million. The film received universal critical acclaim, with praise for its storytelling, gritty tone, visual effects, cinematography, direction, musical score, scientific accuracy, portrayal of the Outer Space, ambition, characters, mature themes, performances (particularly those of Hathaway, Scodelario, Watanabe, and Caine), and emotional weight. It was widely considered to be among the greatest films of the 2020s, and was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten best films of 2022. Hathaway and Scodelario’s performances were widely acclaimed, earning them Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and Nolan was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
