Saturday, March 19, 2011

Ken Watanabe

This week on Caricaturama S. 3000 we are honoring Japan, so I decided to paint Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage , film, and television actor. He is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the 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 roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception. (Wikipedia)