Ken��s scandal, brings shadow to kids
Getting into Hollywood through The Last Samurai, and confirmed playing a character in Batman Begins, Ken Watanabe is in the case of divorce with his wife. The lawyers intend to call their daughter, An Watanabe, to appear in court. However, she has a repugnance to that and said, ��Please, stop showing others the scandal of our family!��, and refused to appear in court.
According to TokyoSports, Ken Watanabe and his separated wife have a son and a daughter. His son, using another name, Shin Shinitiro, is entering in the acting career. While their 17-year-old daughter, An Watanabe, is the model of a Japanese fashion magazine. After the financial dispute happened between Ken and his wife, their daughter have started to face the judgement from her friends in school. Besides, due to the financial burden of the family, An has to quit the school. She has to start her full-time model career and to plan her living.
As An should be always witness the disputes of their parents arising from financial problem and extramarital affair, she becomes one of the very important witness of the divorce case. However, has a repugnance to that and said that she does not want to let outsiders know too much the scandal of her family. She wants the whole thing will go to an end as soon as possible. She refused to be witness on the court, and she feels so bad between his mum and dad.
On the other hand, their son, Shin Shinitiro, is ��frozen�� (getting less job) by his agency after the dispute. He sent a short letter to another magazine, showing that he is so opposed to his father. In the letter, he said he just wants their parents to solve the huge sum of debt as soon as possible, so that he and his sister would not be under that burden.
Although Ken looks good in his career so far, he has a series family problem to solve.
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