Person
Ken Watanabe
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 21, 1959
- From
- 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.
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Batman Begins
Godzilla
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Last Samurai
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Transformers: The Last Knight
Isle of Dogs
The Creator
Memoirs of a Geisha
Alice in Borderland
Letters from Iwo Jima
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
The Sea of Trees
Tampopo
Tokyo Vice
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