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Real Name: Kensaku Watanabe
Birthday: 10/21/1959
Birthplace: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Occupation: Actor
Sign: Libra
Death date: N/A
Death reason: N/A

As of 2004, he became the fifth Asian actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. The first and second Asian actors were Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Sayonara (1957), and Sessue Hayakawa, nominated the same year for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The third nominee was Mako for The Sand Pebbles (1966). The fourth nominee, and the second to win was Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields (1984). Ken would be followed by Rinko Kikuchi in ...

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It is no wonder that actor Ken Watanabe has played many roles as a Japanese samurai throughout much his career. Like the warriors of old, Watanabe has practiced a code of humility, honor and modesty with his approach to acting and stardom—even his first name is a common moniker meaning modesty. Watanabe has also faced death with the fearlessness of the samurai when he was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989. Though he would eventually recover, Watanabe spent the first half...

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