What is Ken Watanabe?
{{BLP sources|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox actor | name = Ken Watanabe<br />渡辺 謙 | image = Ken Watanabe 01.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Ken Watanabe in 2007 | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|10|21}} | birth_place = [[Hirokami]], [[Niigata]], [[Japan]] | deathdate = | deathplace = | othername = | occupation = Actor | height = 184 cm | yearsactive = 1979–present | spouse = Yumiko Watanabe (div. 2005)<br />[[Kaho Minami]] (2005–present) }} {{Nihongo|'''Ken Watanabe'''|渡辺 謙|Watanabe Ken|extra=born October 21, 1959}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kdash.jp/profile/kdash/watanabe_ken/index.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311043823/http://www.kdash.jp/profile/kdash/watanabe_ken/index.php|archivedate=March 11, 2012|title=渡辺謙 Ken Watanabe|publisher=K Dash Group}}</ref> is a Japanese [[theater|stage]], [[movie]], and [[television]] actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing characters such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]''. He played Lord Katsumoto Moritsu in the 2003 movie ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' and was nominated for the [[Academy Award]] for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the [[Japan Academy Prize|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 acting in [[Christopher Nolan]]'s movies, ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[Inception]]''. On February 9, 2016, it was revealed Watanabe, a [[leukemia]] survivor, had been diagnosed with [[stomach cancer]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67b381d5004443cfb2f4cc7262afcf3d/tony-nominated-actor-ken-watanabe-battling-stomach-cancer |title=Tony-nominated actor Ken Watanabe battling stomach cancer |access-date=2019-04-15 |archive-date=2016-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210095527/http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/67b381d5004443cfb2f4cc7262afcf3d/tony-nominated-actor-ken-watanabe-battling-stomach-cancer |url-status=dead }}</ref> =