Ken Watanabe
- Born
- October 21, 1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
- Actor
- Producer
- miscellaneous
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 · 15 credits
- 2023The Creator · Actor (Harun)
- 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters · Actor (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)
- 2019Pokémon: Detective Pikachu · Actor (Lieutenant Hide Yoshida)
- 2018Bel Canto · Actor (Hosokawa)
- 2018The King and I · Actor (The King of Siam)
- 2015The Sea of Trees · Actor (Takumi Nakamura)
- 2014Godzilla · Actor (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)
- 2010Inception · Actor (Saito)
- 2010Shanghai · Actor (Tanaka)
- 2007Earth · Actor (Narrator)
- 2006Letters from Iwo Jima · Actor (General Kuribayashi)
- 2005Batman Begins · Actor (Ra's Al Ghul)
- 2005Memoirs of a Geisha · Actor (Chairman)
- 2005Ashes and Snow · Actor (Japanese Narrator)
- 2003The Last Samurai · Actor (Katsumoto)