Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, leukemia survivor, fights stomach cancer

Japanese actor Ken Watanabe arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Columbia Pictures' Memoirs of a Geisha at the Kodak theatre in Hollywood in 2005. Photo: Reuters

By ELAINE LIES

Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, an Academy Award nominee for his performance in the movie The Last Samurai and lauded in the recent Broadway revival of The King and I, is fighting stomach cancer and will have to postpone plans to return to Broadway.