Ken Watanabe
Acting
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.
Born: October 21, 1959
Place of Birth: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Kinji Shinoda
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
as Hanjiro Hanai
as Tamema Okitsugu
as Taichirou Tsujimura
as Kensuke (voice)
as Harun
as Hiroto Katagiri
as Old Gentleman
as Masao Yoshida
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
as Ono Masuji
as The King of Siam
as Katsumi Hosokawa
as Head Surgeon (voice)
as Father
as Shimazu Nariakira
as Self - Presenter
as Drift (voice)
as Restaurant Patron
as Taro Miura
as 키자키 슈지
as Yohei Maki
as Takumi Nakamura
as Self
as Reiji Kurata
as Takamura Kouji
as Drift (voice)
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
as Jubee Kamata
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
as Regular
as Saito
as Tanaka
as Hajime Onchi
as Mr. Tall
as Narrator (voice)
as Nonoyama Hiroji
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
as Masayuki Saeki
as Chairman
as Ra's al Ghul
as Komatsubara Hideaki
as Shuichiro Imanishi
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
as Masanobu Azuma
as Miyota
as Hojo Tokiyori
as Ishida
as Yokoyama
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
as Detective Sako Akio
as Raita Onuki
as Zankuro Matsudaira
as Dr. Baian
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
as Mochizuki Koheita
as Kojirō
as Fujieda Baian
as Ryoma Sakamoto
as Dr. Baian
as 伊達政宗
as Toda
as Genzo Onodera
as Self
as Gun
as Tetsuo Nakai