Ken Watanabe
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
Alice in Borderland
2020
Inception
2010
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
Tokyo Vice
2022
Segodon
2018
Batman Begins
2005
The Creator
2023
The Last Samurai
2003
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Godzilla
2014
Back of Father
2014
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Masamune Shogun
1987
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017