Ken Watanabe
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.
Top Filmography
Inception
2010 // MOVIE
Batman Begins
2005 // MOVIE
Godzilla
2014 // MOVIE
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 // MOVIE
The Last Samurai
2003 // MOVIE
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 // MOVIE
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 // MOVIE
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 // MOVIE
Isle of Dogs
2018 // MOVIE
The Creator
2023 // MOVIE
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 // MOVIE
Alice in Borderland
2020 // TV
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 // MOVIE
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 // MOVIE
The Sea of Trees
2016 // MOVIE