Ken Watanabe
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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Inception
2010
Alice in Borderland
2020
Tokyo Vice
2022
Batman Begins
2005
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
The Last Samurai
2003
Godzilla
2014
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
The Creator
2023
Isle of Dogs
2018
Segodon
2018
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
Masamune Shogun
1987
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Unbound
2025
TRUE COLORS
2025
Back of Father
2014
Hanekonma
1986
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
The Sea of Trees
2016
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
Kokuho
2025
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
Shanghai
2010
Tampopo
1985
Bel Canto
2018