Ken Watanabe
Known for: Actor
Born: 21 October 1959 (age 67), Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Credits: 60+ titles
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.
Filmography
Samurai Vengeance
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
The Final Piece
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kokuho
TRUE COLORS
Unbound
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
The Creator
Tokyo Vice
Alice in Borderland
Toubousha
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Fukushima 50
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
An Artist of the Floating World
The King and I
Bel Canto
Isle of Dogs
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Segodon
Transformers: The Last Knight
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
The Memories of Happiness
五年目のひとり
Rage
The Sea of Trees
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Snow Jack
Back of Father
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Godzilla
Unforgiven
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
A School Behind Bars
Inception
Shanghai
The Unbroken
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
Earth
星ひとつの夜
Letters from Iwo Jima
Memories of Tomorrow
Memoirs of a Geisha
Batman Begins
Ashes and Snow
Year One in the North
Vessel of Sand
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
The Last Samurai
第三の時効
Another Battle/Conspiracy
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
T.R.Y.
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko