Ken Watanabe

Acting · Born Oct 21, 1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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

Inception
20108.4Movie
Alice in Borderland
20208.1Series
Batman Begins
20057.7Movie
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
19909.5Series
The Last Samurai
20037.6Movie
Tokyo Vice
20227.9Series
Transformers: Age of Extinction
20146.0Movie
Isle of Dogs
20187.8Movie
The Creator
20237.0Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
20176.1Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
20196.7Movie
Godzilla
20146.4Movie
Segodon
20188.3Series
Memoirs of a Geisha
20057.6Movie
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
20196.9Movie
Hanekonma
19868.0Series
Letters from Iwo Jima
20067.5Movie
Unbound
20259.3Series
Masamune Shogun
19879.0Series
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
20158.8Series
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
20007.4Series
The Sea of Trees
20166.2Movie
NHK WORLD PRIME
20179.0Series
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
20095.9Movie
Kokuho
20257.9Movie
Back of Father
20148.0Series
Fukushima 50
20206.5Movie
The Fire Still Burns
1993Series
Hojo Tokimune
20018.0Series
Tampopo
19857.8Movie