Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderMale
BirthdayOctober 20, 1959 (65 years old)
Place of BirthKoide, Niigata, Japan
Ken Watanabe
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.
Known For
Batman Begins
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Last Samurai
Tampopo
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Inception
Shanghai
T.R.Y.
Space Travelers
第三の時効
The Creator
Unforgiven
Godzilla
Memories of Tomorrow
The Making of "Tampopo"
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
The Unbroken
A School Behind Bars
Year One in the North
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Earth
Transformers: Age of Extinction
True Love: Making The Creator
The Whispered City
Drowning Fish
The Sea and Poison
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
MacArthur's Children
Evolution Within Extinction
Hanzo, the Razor
All Lives
Transformers: The Last Knight
Snow Jack
Rage
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kekkon Annai Mystery
The Sea of Trees
Commando Invasion
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Oda Nobunaga
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Isle of Dogs
Bel Canto
Fukushima 50
The Memories of Happiness
The King and I
Kensuke's Kingdom
Bonds
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Baian the Assassin
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Memoirs of a Geisha
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Another Battle/Conspiracy
An Artist of the Floating World
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
National Treasure
盤上の向日葵
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Kagi-shi
Oda Nobunaga
Vessel of Sand
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
NHK WORLD PRIME
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Masamune Shogun
Segodon
強行犯捜査第七係
Izakaya Chōji
Gokenin Zankuro
Waga Machi
Tokyo Vice
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
Baian the Assassin
五年目のひとり
Shimei Tehai
Back of Father
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
Hanekonma
Hojo Tokimune
The Fire Still Burns
Toubousha
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Musuko no Gokikan
Unbound
TRUE COLORS
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