Ken Watanabe
Acting Born Oct 21, 1959 Uonuma, Niigata, Japan 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Alice in Borderland (2020) as Old Gentleman
- Inception (2010) as Saito
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)
- Batman Begins (2005) as Ra's al Ghul
- The Creator (2023) as Harun
- Tokyo Vice (2022) as Hiroto Katagiri
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) as Drift (voice)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Godzilla (2014) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) as Drift (voice)
- Segodon (2018) as Shimazu Nariakira
- The Last Samurai (2003) as Moritsugu Katsumoto
- Back of Father (2014) as Takamura Kouji
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
- Masamune Shogun (1987) as 伊達政宗
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000) as Yokoyama
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Head Surgeon (voice)
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk (2015) as 東雲朔太郎
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Le président
- Unbound (2025) as Tamema Okitsugu
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Hanekonma (1986) as Genzo Onodera
- Gokenin Zankuro (1995) as Zankuro Matsudaira
- Kokuho (2025) as Hanjiro Hanai