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.
The ancient feud between Greeks and Trojans reignites in the heart of the 21st century, as global superpowers clash over a high-stakes hostage crisis. Heroes, gods, and mortals alike navigate the blurred lines of loyalty, love, and fate—armed not with swords, but with technology, media influence, and modern warfare. Set in 2025, Troy is now a fortified city-state in Eastern Europe, a nexus of strategic power, tech innovation, and old-world wealth. Helen, the enigmatic wife of Menelaus—a shipping magnate and politician—taking away by Paris, a charismatic Trojan prince and social media influencer. This scandal sparks a multinational siege led by Agamemnon, Menelaus’s brother and the ambitious head of a UN-backed coalition. As alliances shift and ancient grudges are reborn, legendary warriors and cunning tacticians battle not just with modern weapons, but with propaganda, cyber warfare, and personal ambition.
