Ken Watanabe
Known for: Acting
Born: October 20, 1959 in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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 Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
Known for
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Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Tampopo
Gun
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Inception
Saito
Shanghai
Tanaka
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
第三の時効
The Creator
Harun
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
A School Behind Bars
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Earth
Narrator (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
Self