Fan Casting Ken Watanabe as Kambei Shimada in Seven Samurai

rello made this fan casting suggestion on September 8, 2022. What do you think? See below to cast your vote, or click here to see all fan casting suggestions for this role.

Ken Watanabe

64 years old

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 Kuribay...

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Ken Watanabe

Kambei Shimada

Seven Samurai

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Seven Samurai

Reboot

by Akira Kurosawa

The story of a village of desperate farmers who hire seven rōnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

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Ken Watanabe is known for his roles in Godzilla, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Inception. He has been suggested by fans for 3,486 roles on myCast, including Dalinar Kholin in The Stormlight Archive. Similar actors include Hiroyuki Sanada, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Donnie Yen. Ken Watanabe was suggested to play Kambei Shimada in Seven Samurai by rello. Other actors sugggested to play this role include Koji Yakusho and Yuji Oda. Seven Samurai has 9 roles, including Director, Katsushirō Okamoto, and Kyūzō.