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

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for M'Ling in This Island Earth

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This Island Earth

Scientist Cal Meacham solves a mysterious puzzle that allows him access to a highly secretive program -- led by the mysterious Exeter -- that has assembled the Prodigium (composed of the world's greatest scientific minds) in an attempt to quickly learn how to generate and store nuclear power. But with the help of Meacham and his fellow scientists Ruth Adams and Steve Carlson, The Prodigium soon discovers that his host is not what he claims to be.

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Ken Watanabe

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This Island Earth

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