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Ken Watanabe

AKA: 渡邊謙
Birthday: 1959-10-21
Birthplace: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Home Page: https://www.kenwatanabe-official.com/


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

Batman Begins
Character: Ra's al Ghul
Letters from Iwo Jima
Character: General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Last Samurai
Character: Moritsugu Katsumoto

Tampopo
Character: Gun
Inception
Character: Saito

Shanghai
Character: Tanaka
T.R.Y.
Character: Masanobu Azuma
Space Travelers
Character: Sakamaki ("Crusher")

The Creator
Character: Harun
Unforgiven
Character: Jubee Kamata

Godzilla
Character: Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Memories of Tomorrow
Character: Masayuki Saeki
The Making of "Tampopo"
Character: Self

The Unbroken
Character: Hajime Onchi

Year One in the North
Character: Komatsubara Hideaki
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Junichiro Kawaguchi

Earth
Character: Narrator (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Character: Drift (voice)

The Whispered City
Character: Ishida
Drowning Fish
Character: Miyota
The Sea and Poison
Character: Toda

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Character: Restaurant Patron
MacArthur's Children
Character: Tetsuo Nakai

Transformers: The Last Knight
Character: Drift (voice)

Snow Jack
Character: Reiji Kurata
Rage
Character: Yohei Maki
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Character: Kojirō

The Sea of Trees
Character: Takumi Nakamura

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Character: Mochizuki Koheita

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Character: Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
Character: Samurai Master
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Character: Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

Isle of Dogs
Character: Head Surgeon (voice)
Bel Canto
Character: Katsumi Hosokawa
Fukushima 50
Character: Masao Yoshida

The Memories of Happiness
Character: Taro Miura
The King and I
Character: The King of Siam
Kensuke's Kingdom
Character: Kensuke (voice)

Bonds
Character: Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Character: Raita Onuki
Baian the Assassin
Character: Dr. Baian

Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Character: Dr. Baian
Memoirs of a Geisha
Character: Chairman
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Character: Father

Another Battle/Conspiracy
Character: Fujimaki Hiroaki
An Artist of the Floating World
Character: Ono Masuji
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Character: Ryoma Sakamoto