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Ken Watanabe

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Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy…

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Tom Cruise as Nathan Algren in samurai armor in a scene from The Last Samurai

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Tom Cruise's 2003 Flop The Last Samurai Finds New Life On HBO Max

The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise's 2003 box office disappointment at home, is reportedly seeing a streaming resurgence on HBO Max, with critics pointing to Ken Watanabe's Oscar-nominated turn as the film's real engine.

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