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
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
Inception
Saito
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
The Creator
Harun
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Rage
Yohei Maki
Shanghai
Tanaka
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Tampopo
Gun
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira
Oda Nobunaga
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
All Lives
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
Drowning Fish
Miyota
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Earth
Narrator (voice)
The King and I
The King of Siam
Waga Machi
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
The Sea and Poison
Toda
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
Kokuho
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
Oda Nobunaga
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
Hanzo, the Razor
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
A School Behind Bars
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Toubousha
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
Izakaya Chōji
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
Kagi-shi
The Whispered City
Ishida
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
Shimei Tehai
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
盤上の向日葵
強行犯捜査第七係
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
Samurai Master
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
第三の時効
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian