Acting
Ken Watanabe
Also Known As: 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه
Birth Date
October 21, 1959
(66 years old)
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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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.
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Inception
Saito
2010
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
2020 • 1 episode
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
2022 • 18 episodes
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
2005
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
2014
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 • 5 episodes
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003
The Creator
Harun
2023
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
2017
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
2005
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
2017 • 1 episode
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
2018 • 17 episodes
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
1987 • 50 episodes
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎
2015 • 9 episodes
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
2016