Ken Watanabe
- Born
- October 21, 1959
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.
Acting
By IMDb rating
Inception
Saito
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Earth
Narrator (voice)
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
Memoirs of a Geisha
Le président
The Creator
Harun
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)