Ken Watanabe
ActingAlso Known As
渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه, Kensaku 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.
Movies
(66 total)
Inception
as Saito
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
The Creator
as Harun
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Le président
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
Tampopo
as Gun
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
Shanghai
as Tanaka
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
TV Shows
(34 total)
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter
Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda Baian
Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
