He also appears in the independent films, Philip Kan Gotanda's Life Tastes Good, Only the Brave and Americanese.
He is a founding member of the Asian American sketch comedy troupe, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.
Watanabe received a 2009 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nomination for Featured Performance in The Happy Ones at South Coast Repertory.
In October 2015, Watanabe made his Broadway debut in Allegiance: A New American Musical at the Longacre Theatre in New York City with co-stars George Takei, Lea Salonga, Michael K. Lee and Telly Leung.
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