Ken Watanabe
Born: 1959-10-21
• Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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
Revenge in Kobikicho
The Final Piece
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kokuho
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
True Love: Making The Creator
The Creator
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
Transformers: The Last Knight
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
The Memories of Happiness
Rage
The Sea of Trees
Evolution Within Extinction
Snow Jack
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Godzilla
Unforgiven
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
A School Behind Bars
Inception
Shanghai
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
The Unbroken
Earth
星ひとつの夜
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Letters from Iwo Jima
Memories of Tomorrow
Memoirs of a Geisha
Batman Begins
Year One in the North
The Last Samurai
第三の時効
Another Battle/Conspiracy
T.R.Y.
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Drowning Fish
The Whispered City
Space Travelers
Bonds
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Hanzo, the Razor
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Oda Nobunaga
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Takeda Shingen
Baian the Assassin
Commando Invasion
The Sea and Poison
The Making of "Tampopo"
Tampopo
Kekkon Annai Mystery
MacArthur's Children