This block contains the information about Ken Watanabe and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Ken Watanabe was born in October 1959 in Coid, which is located in Niigata (Japan). He graduated school in 1978 and after this significant moment in his life he comes back to Tokyo and started working in the theater. The role in the play “Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari” brought him the critic’s attention. Usually in the cinema he was performing th roles of samurais, as for example his work, in “Michinary Hanran” and in “Dokuganryu Masamune”. In 1989 Ken was on the peak of his popularity in Japan, and it was about the time when he started thinking that he wants something more for himself. But that moment coincided with the time when the doctors diagnosed him with a terrifying disease- with chronic myeloleucosis, that is why he stops performing and for more than two years starts fighting with the disease. When he solved the problems with his health, he comes back into the world of cinema with his small triumph, and gets the nomination on the “Japanese Academy Award, for the role in the movie “Kuzuna”. He became famous outside the borders of his country in 2003, after the release of the movie “The Last Samurai” with Tom Cruise and in “Memoirs of Geisha” in 2005.those two movies made him very popular. Watanabe also performed in the movie “The Beginning”.

With the help of the Google satellite map you can find the place where Ken Watanabe was born. By zooming in and out you can see the place itself and the area it is situated in and nearby. Find out where Ken Watanabe was born. Now you can see the place itself even not traveling.

Here you can learn about the movies Ken Watanabe acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Inception - Saito	$160M	2010	$62.8M	$293M
Batman Begins - Ra's Al Ghul	$150M	2005	$48.7M	$205M
The Last Samurai - Katsumoto	$140M	2003	$24.3M	$111M
Memoirs of a Geisha - Chairman	$85M	2005	$683K	$57M
Shanghai - Tanaka	$50M	2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Mr. Tall	$40M	2009	$6.29M	$13.8M
Letters from Iwo Jima - General Kuribayashi	$19M	2006	$123K	$13.8M
Kizuna - Detective Sako Akio		1998
T.R.Y. - Masanobu Azuma		2003
Rajio no jikan - Raita Onuki, the truck driver		1997	$8.89K	$11.5K
Memories of Tomorrow - Masayuki Saeki, Executive Producer		2006	$6.25K	$140K
The Sea and Poison - Toda		1986
Half Kenneth (short) - Benefactor		2009
Dandelion - Gun		1985
The Unbroken - Hajime Onchi		2009
Space Travelers - Sakamaki ("Crusher")		2000
Year One in the North - Hideaki Komatsubara		2005
Kekkon annai mystery - Funayama Tetsuya/Masakazu Sekine		1985
Bakumatsu jyunjyoden - Ryouma Sakamoto		1991
Setouchi shonen yakyu dan - Tetsuo		1984