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Ken Watanabe

Birthday:: Oct 21, 1959
Birthplace:: Koide (now Uonuma), Niigata prefecture
Bio:: In 1982, he made his first TV appearance in Michinaru Hanran (Unknown Rebellion), and his first appearance on TV as a samurai in Mibu no koiuta. He made his feature-film debut in 1984 with MacArthur's Children.

Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing samurai, as in the 1987…

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Range of Movie T-meters: 35% - 100%

Number of Movies: 22

Box Office Since 2001: $693.4M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2014		Godzilla	Actor	--
2013		Yurusarezaru mono (Unforgiven)	Actor	--
2010		Shanghai	Actor	--
2010	86%	Inception	Saito	$292.6M
2009		The Unbroken (shizumanu Taiy�)	Actor	--
2009	38%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Mr. Tall	$13.8M
2007		Hoshi hitotsu no yoru	Actor	--
2006	85%	Memories of Tomorrow (Ashita no kioku)	Producer Masayuki Saeki	--
2006	91%	Letters from Iwo Jima	General Kuribayashi	$13.7M
2005		Ashes and Snow	Actor	--
2005	85%	Batman Begins	Ra's Al Ghul	$205.2M
2005	35%	Memoirs of a Geisha	The Chairman	$57.0M
2003	65%	The Last Samurai	Katsumoto	$111.1M
2000		Space Travelers (Sup�sutoraber�zu)	Actor	--
1998	88%	Welcome Back Mr. McDonald	Truck Driver	--
1989		Violent Zone	Old Mishima	--
1988		Karate Warrior	Actor	--
1987		Commando Invasion	Actor	--
1986	100%	Tampopo	Gun	--
1985		9 Deaths of the Ninja	Sensei	--
1984		Setouchi shonen yakyu dan (MacArthur's Children)	Tetsuo Nakai	--
1984		Bruce's Fists of Vengeance	Actor	--

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1. Nathan Algren: What does it say?
2. Katsumoto: I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new.
From The Last Samurai. Submitted by Effi L (2 months ago)

1. Katsumoto: Life in every breath. That is the way of the warrior. That is Bushido!
2. Nathan Algren: Hai.
From The Last Samurai. Submitted by Effi L (2 months ago)