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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Birthday: 1959-10-21 | Place of Birth: Koide, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Tokyo Vice

as    Hiroto Katagiri

2020
Fukushima 50

as    Masao Yoshida

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as    Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

2018
Bel Canto

as    Katsumi Hosokawa

2018
The King and I

as    The King of Siam

2016
The Sea of Trees

as    Takumi Nakamura

2014
Godzilla

as    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2010
Inception

as    Saito

2010
Shanghai

as    Tanaka

2009
Earth

as    Narrator

2006
Letters from Iwo Jima

as    General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

2005
Memoirs of a Geisha

as    Chairman

2003
T.R.Y.

as    Masanobu Azuma

2003
The Last Samurai

as    Moritsugu Katsumoto

1984
MacArthur's Children

as    Tetsuo Nakai