Ken Watanabe
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Acting · Born 1959-10-21 · age 66 · 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.
Titles
Inception
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
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Shanghai
Fukushima 50
Bel Canto
Kokuho
Unforgiven
Rage
Ashes and Snow
Kensuke's Kingdom
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Memories of Tomorrow
The Sea and Poison
Space Travelers
The Unbroken
Year One in the North
MacArthur's Children
The King and I
Unbound
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Bonds
The Final Piece
Samurai Vengeance
Masamune Shogun
T.R.Y.
Segodon
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Commando Invasion
All Lives
TRUE COLORS
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Drowning Fish
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Gokenin Zankuro
The Whispered City
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Oda Nobunaga
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Vessel of Sand
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Back of Father
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編