Ken Watanabe
Known For
Acting
Born
1959-10-21 in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
Most Known For
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
Inception
as Saito
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Creator
as Harun
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman