Acting
Ken Watanabe
1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
30 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Inception
Saito
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Creator
Harun
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi