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
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
The Creator
Harun
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Tampopo
Gun
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Earth
Narrator (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Shanghai
Tanaka
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Rage
Yohei Maki
Ashes and Snow
Japanese Narrator (voice)
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
The Sea and Poison
Toda
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
The King and I
The King of Siam
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio