is a Japanese actor.
Career
Born in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, Watabe debuted as an actor on television in 1991 with the drama ''Seishun no mon''.
He won awards of excellence in the best actor and new face categories at the 19th
Japan Academy Prize in 1996 for the film ''Shizukana seikatsu,''
Juzo Itami
, born , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself.
Early life
Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto. The name Itami was passed on from his fath ...
's adaptation of his brother-in-law
Kenzaburō Ōe
is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, i ...
's novel.
Filmography
Movies
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Zebraman
is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu action comedy superhero film directed by Takashi Miike, written by Kankurō Kudō and stars Shō Aikawa as the main character, a superhero named "Zebraman".
A 2010 sequel, titled '' Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City ...
'' (2004), Oikawa
*''
Love Exposure
is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the crim ...
'' (2008), Tetsu Honda
*''
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
is a 2009 Japanese animated mystery film directed by Masakazu Hashimoto, written by Aya Matsui from a story by Akihiro Hino and produced by P.A. Works and OLM. The film is based on the ''Professor Layton'' video game series by Level-5, taking ...
'' (2009), Jean Descole (voice)
*''
The Flowers of War
''The Flowers of War'' () is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi and Cao Kefan. The film is based on a novella by Gel ...
'' (2011), Colonel Hasegawa
*''
Masquerade Hotel
is a 2019 Japanese crime film directed by Masayuki Suzuki. A sequel, ''Masquerade Night
is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has wo ...
'' (2019), Inagaki
*''Daughter of Lupin the Movie'' (2021), Takeru Mikumo
*''
Masquerade Night
is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has won major Japanese awards for his books, almost twenty of which have been turned into films an ...
'' (2021), Inagaki
Television
*''Mōri Motonari'' (
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
, 1997),
Mōri Okimoto
*''
Keizoku
is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama.
The television series was broadcast in 11 episodes between 8 Ja ...
'' (1999), Tōru Mayama
*''Hōjō Tokimune'' (NHK, 2001), Hōjō Tokisuke
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*'' Rookies'' (2008), Minoru Yoshida
*'']Gaiji Keisatsu
is a Japanese television drama mini-series that aired on NHK from 14 November 2009 to 19 December 2009. It is based on the novel of the same name written and released in Japan by Aso Iku.
The TV show follow a female police officer who was rec ...
'' (2008), Kenji Sumimoto
*''Bitter Blood
''Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder'' (1988) is a non-fiction crime tragedy written by American author Jerry Bledsoe that reached #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. ''Bitter Blood'' is ...
'' (2014), Akimura Shimao
*''Shizumanu Taiyō
(lit. ''The Never-setting Sun'') is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as ''The Unbroken'' in the United States.
''Shizumanu Taiyō'' is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki which centers on Hajime Onchi, an emp ...
'' (Wowow, 2016), Shiro Gyoten
*''On'' (2016), Iwao Atsuta
*''Signal
In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The ''IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing'' ...
'' (Fuji TV
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and operated by the it is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network Sys ...
, 2018)What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
What or WHAT may refer to:
* What, an interrogative pronoun and adverb
* "What?", one of the Five Ws used in journalism
Film and television
* ''What!'' (film) or ''The Whip and the Body'', a 1963 Italian film directed by Mario Bava
* '' What ...
'' (NHK, 2023), Sekiguchi Ujizumi
Video Games
*''Professor Layton and the Last Specter
''Professor Layton and the Last Specter'', known in Europe as ''Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call'', is a puzzle adventure video game produced by Level-5 for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. ''Last Specter'' is the fourth game in ...
'' (2009) - Jean Descole
*''Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
''Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask'' is a puzzle adventure video game developed by Level-5. It is the fifth game in the ''Professor Layton'' series, the second in the prequel trilogy of games, and the first in the series to be developed fo ...
'' (2011) - Jean Descole
*''Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
''Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy'' is a puzzle game developed by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the sixth entry in the ''Professor Layton'' series, making up the third and final part of the prequel trilogy of games and according to L ...
'' (2013) - Desmond Sycamore, Jean Descole
References
*http://www.dramago.com/actor/4960_atsuro-watabe
External links
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Living people
Japanese male actors
1968 births
People from Tokyo
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