Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born: 1959-10-21 in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Biography
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
Inception
Saito
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Creator
Harun
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Tampopo
Gun
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
Shanghai
Tanaka
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
Earth
Narrator (voice)
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
東雲朔太郎
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Rage
Yohei Maki
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father