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.

Filmografi

Inception2010 · SaitoBatman Begins2005 · Ra's al GhulTransformers: Age of Extinction2014 · Drift (voice)Godzilla2014 · Dr. Ishiro SerizawaGodzilla: King of the Monsters2019 · Dr. Ishiro SerizawaThe Creator2023 · HarunTransformers: The Last Knight2017 · Drift (voice)The Last Samurai2003 · Moritsugu KatsumotoPokémon Detective Pikachu2019 · Lieutenant Hide YoshidaIsle of Dogs2018 · Head Surgeon (voice)Memoirs of a Geisha2005 · ChairmanKokuho2025 · Hanjiro HanaiLetters from Iwo Jima2006 · General Tadamichi KuribayashiThe Sea of Trees2016 · Takumi NakamuraKensuke's Kingdom2024 · Kensuke (voice)Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant2009 · Mr. TallTampopo1985 · GunShanghai2010 · Tanaka7 Guardians of the Tomb2018 · FatherFukushima 502020 · Masao YoshidaAshes and Snow2005 · Japanese Narrator (voice)Earth2007 · Narrator (voice)Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald1997 · Raita OnukiRage2016 · Yohei Maki