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.
Filmography (13)
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
The Creator
as Harun
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Inception
as Saito
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Tampopo
as Gun