Ken Watanabe

Acting

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 ...

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8.1

Alice in Borderland

Old Gentleman

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8.4

Inception

Saito

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

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9.5

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Unknown Role

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7.8

Tokyo Vice

Hiroto Katagiri

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7.8

Tokyo Vice

Executive Producer

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7.7

Batman Begins

Ra's al Ghul

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7.0

The Creator

Harun

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8.3

Segodon

Shimazu Nariakira

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7.6

The Last Samurai

Moritsugu Katsumoto

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6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

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Ken Watanabe

Biography