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
★8.4Inception
★7.7Batman Begins
★6.4Godzilla
★6.0Transformers: Age of Extinction
★7.6The Last Samurai
★6.9Pokémon Detective Pikachu
★6.7Godzilla: King of the Monsters
★6.1Transformers: The Last Knight
★7.8Isle of Dogs
★7.0The Creator
★7.6Memoirs of a Geisha
★8.1Alice in Borderland
★7.5Letters from Iwo Jima
★5.9Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
★6.2The Sea of Trees
★7.8Tampopo
★7.9Tokyo Vice
★5.37 Guardians of the Tomb
★6.1Shanghai
★6.5Fukushima 50
★5.4Bel Canto
★7.8Kokuho
★7.0Unforgiven
★6.9Rage
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