Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born October 21, 1959 · 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…
Known For · 40 titles
Inception
Alice in Borderland
Batman Begins
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Tokyo Vice
The Creator
Transformers: The Last Knight
Godzilla
The Last Samurai
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
NHK WORLD PRIME
Hanekonma
Isle of Dogs
Masamune Shogun
Unbound
Segodon
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Memoirs of a Geisha
Back of Father
Hojo Tokimune
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
The Fire Still Burns
Gokenin Zankuro
Letters from Iwo Jima
Kokuho
Vessel of Sand
Tampopo
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
7 Guardians of the Tomb
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
TRUE COLORS
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
Shanghai
The Sea of Trees
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Kensuke's Kingdom
Oda Nobunaga