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.
Known for
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Inception
Saito
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
The Creator
Harun
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Musuko no Gokikan
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
強行犯捜査第七係
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tampopo
Gun
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
The Whispered City
Ishida
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
The Sea and Poison
Toda
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Shanghai
Tanaka
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Earth
Narrator (voice)
Rage
Yohei Maki
Oda Nobunaga
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
All Lives
Toubousha
Waga Machi
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
Kokuho
Hanjiro
Izakaya Chōji
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Drowning Fish
Miyota
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지
Shimei Tehai
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
Kagi-shi
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
Kekkon Annai Mystery
A School Behind Bars
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
第三の時効
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
The King and I
The King of Siam
Hanzo, the Razor
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
Oda Nobunaga
盤上の向日葵
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
Commando Invasion
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self