Ken Vatanabe Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. World fame brought him the role of Katsumoto in the Oscar nominee of the year - the historical militant "Last Samurai", where Vatanabe starred with Tom Cruise. Ken's parents were teachers, but their two children preferred cinema: Ken’s sister, Yuki Vatanabe, also an actress. Ken Vatanaba was born in Japan for some time Vatanaba learned to play a pipe, but because of the lack of musical abilities, he did not succeed in this.

In m, he chose theatrical activity for himself and without any professional education and courses joined the "EN" theater troupe. In the same year, he first played the main role of the samurai in the television movie “Mibu No Kouuta”, and first appeared in the full -length film “Children of Mac Arthur” in the same role. Since then, the role of Samurai for several years has become the main in the film’s film lives.

Filmography in Japan Fame Ken Vatanabe brought the main role of a samurai in the historical television series G. In the same Ken received his first film award from the Japanese Society of Cinema and Television Products in the “Best Novice” category for the role of the film “Sea and Poison”. Ken Vatanabe in his youth in Vatanabe was diagnosed with acute myelocyte leukemia, due to which there was a break in filming.

In that year, the actor successfully overcame the disease, which, nevertheless, returned again - in the year. Then Vatanabe took another 2 years to overcome the terrible enemy. Ken Vatanabe and Tom Cruz in the film “The Last Samurai” World fame came to Vatanab in the year, after the release of the film directed by Edward Zvik “The Last Samurai”, where we can safely say that Ken outplayed Tom Cruise, although before that he was almost unknown in the States.

He was nominated for Oscar as the best second -plan actor. From this moment on, the roles of courageous Japanese were fixed for a permanent basis. This contributed to this that the actor often within the framework of a narrow role can create a deep dramatic character. On the set of Batman: The beginning, the year was extremely fruitful for the talented Japanese.

The female love drama “Heisha memoirs” Rob Marshall, in which he perfectly played the dramatic role of the chairman, the object of the unattainable interest of the main character, contributed much more to the growth of Vatanabe. The film received 3 Oscars. The trailer for Ken Vatanabe “Geisha memoirs” in the year, the actor starred in the military drama of Clint Eastwood “Letters from Ivodzima” as the actually existing Japanese General Kuribayashi.

A piercing ambiguous film about the meaninglessness and cruelty of the war in the city in Japan was released in Japan's drama “Memories of Tomorrow” about the manager of a large company, a ill disease of Alzheimer. For this role, Ken Vatanaba received the highest award of the Japanese Film Academy. Ken Vatanabe in the film “Letters from Ivodzima” in Christopher Nolan invited Ken to one of the leading roles-a wealthy businessman Saito-to his science fiction thriller “Beginning”.

Ken Vatanabe in the film “Beginning” in the city of and in the city of Lenta narrated about the American tourist Matthew McConah and the failed suicide Ken Vatanabe who had lost in the Japanese “suicide forest”. Due to his illness, he postponed the performance in the Broadway musical “King and I” and lay down on the operation in the leading oncological clinic of Japan. Ken Vatanabe has been fighting with cancer for his life Ken Vatanabe played more than 70 films and dramas, and also took part in several projects as a producer and a co -producer.

The fearless samurai, a brilliant prince, a brave general - who only he did not portray for his cinematic life. The talented Japanese actor was repeatedly able to overcome a serious illness and achieve the heights of world popularity. Ken's personal life at the end of X the actor married for the first time. Yumiko Vatanaba became the wife, in the marriage with whom he had two children: the son of Vatanabe and daughter Anna, who works as a model in Tokyo and made Ken's grandfather two pretty twin granddaughters, and gave him a grandson in the year.

Ken and Yumiko Vatanabe in the year the couple divorced due to the numerous ties of Vatanab on the side. The divorce was issued through the court, at which 5 Japanese actresses were testified, who had novels with Vatanab. In the same year, Vatanabe married actress Kaho Minami G. in the future the couple had two children. Ken Vatanabe and Kaho Minins during the recovery after the operation of the year Ken met a new passion - a former model, a jewelry designer, 21 years younger than him.

The name of the actor’s chosen one was not disclosed in the press.

After almost three years of secret relations, the couple became the center of the scandal, inflated by the Japanese media, which was followed by the divorce of Ken Vatanabe and Kaho mines in May. The fact that when he began to change his wife was poured into the fire, she fought with his chest cancer. Ken Vatanabe now in the year Ken Vatanabe worked on the voicing of the cartoon of Wes Anderson, the island of the Dog, played one of the key roles in the American Belcanto thriller and began shooting in the second part of Godzilla.It is known that he got a role in the film adaptation of Pokemon, which is expected in the year.