Ken Watanabe
Actor
- Born
- October 21, 1959 (age 66) · 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.
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Known for
Inception
July 15, 2010
Batman Begins
June 10, 2005
Godzilla
May 14, 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
June 25, 2014
The Last Samurai
December 5, 2003
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
May 3, 2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
May 29, 2019
Transformers: The Last Knight
June 16, 2017
Isle of Dogs
March 23, 2018
The Creator
September 27, 2023
Memoirs of a Geisha
December 6, 2005
Letters from Iwo Jima
December 9, 2006
Acting70
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