Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born 1959-10-21
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
104 credits
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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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Filmography
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Acting
50 credits
Inception
Alice in Borderland
Batman Begins
The Creator
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Last Samurai
Tokyo Vice
Isle of Dogs
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Godzilla
Transformers: The Last Knight
Segodon
Letters from Iwo Jima
Memoirs of a Geisha
Masamune Shogun
Hanekonma
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Unbound
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Kokuho
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
The Sea of Trees
NHK WORLD PRIME
Fukushima 50
Back of Father
The Fire Still Burns
Bel Canto
Tampopo
Shanghai
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Gokenin Zankuro
Kensuke's Kingdom
Hojo Tokimune
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
Vessel of Sand
Earth
TRUE COLORS
Samurai Vengeance
Rage
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
The Making of "Tampopo"
Ashes and Snow
The King and I
Evolution Within Extinction
The Final Piece
五年目のひとり
T.R.Y.
Memories of Tomorrow
Unforgiven
Other credits
10 credits
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Oda Nobunaga
Waga Machi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
Toubousha
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Musuko no Gokikan
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Producing
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