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.

Personal Details

• Born: 1959-10-21 in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
• Known For: Acting

Ken Watanabe Movies List

Looking for Ken Watanabe movies? Here are some of their most popular films and where they rank in their career:

• Inception (2010)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Godzilla (2014)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
• The Last Samurai (2003)
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
• Isle of Dogs (2018)
• The Creator (2023)

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