Ken Watanabe
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1959-10-21
Place of birth: 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
Batman Begins
2005Ra's al Ghul
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Last Samurai
2003Moritsugu Katsumoto
Tampopo
1985Gun
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009Mr. Tall
Inception
2010Saito
Shanghai
2010Tanaka
T.R.Y.
2003Masanobu Azuma
Space Travelers
2000Sakamaki ("Crusher")
第三の時効
2003
The Creator
2023Harun
Unforgiven
2013Jubee Kamata
Godzilla
2014Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Memories of Tomorrow
2006Masayuki Saeki
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986Self
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
The Unbroken
2009Hajime Onchi
A School Behind Bars
2010
Year One in the North
2005Komatsubara Hideaki