Kensaku Watanabe had his big career breakthrough when he was chosen to play the lead in the Japanese national TV drama series called "Dokugan ryu Masamune". He played a samurai leader hero, making him a household name in Japan. In 1989, he collapsed while filming a movie in Canada due to leukemia, made a miraculous comeback & co-starred with Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai (2003), which pushed him to the center stage of Hollywood. He appeared as Hiroto Katagiri in the ten-part HBO series Tokyo Vice
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渡辺 謙は、日本の俳優。本名同じ。新潟県北魚沼郡広神村出身。演劇集団 円を経て2002年から2022年までケイダッシュ所属。 世界各国において映画を中心にテレビドラマ、舞台、テレビコマーシャルと幅広く活躍している日本を代表する俳優の一人。身長184cm、体重80kg。父の渡辺亮一は画家としても活動している。
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