Ken Watanabe

Acting

Born Oct 21, 1959 (age 67) · 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.

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Inception2010
as ⁨Saito⁩
Batman Begins2005
as ⁨Ra's al Ghul⁩
Godzilla2014
as ⁨Dr. Ishiro Serizawa⁩
Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
as ⁨Drift (voice)⁩
The Last Samurai2003
as ⁨Moritsugu Katsumoto⁩
Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019
as ⁨Lieutenant Hide Yoshida⁩
Godzilla: King of the Monsters2019
as ⁨Dr. Ishiro Serizawa⁩
as ⁨Drift (voice)⁩
as ⁨Head Surgeon (voice)⁩
as ⁨Harun⁩
as ⁨Chairman⁩
as ⁨General Tadamichi Kuribayashi⁩
as ⁨Mr. Tall⁩
as ⁨Takumi Nakamura⁩
as ⁨Gun⁩
as ⁨Narrator (voice)⁩
as ⁨Father⁩
as ⁨Tanaka⁩
as ⁨Masao Yoshida⁩
as ⁨Katsumi Hosokawa⁩
as ⁨Hanjiro Hanai⁩
as ⁨Jubee Kamata⁩
as ⁨Yohei Maki⁩
as ⁨Japanese Narrator (voice)⁩
as ⁨Kensuke (voice)⁩
as ⁨Raita Onuki⁩

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Inception2010
as ⁨Saito⁩
Batman Begins2005
as ⁨Ra's al Ghul⁩
Godzilla2014
as ⁨Dr. Ishiro Serizawa⁩
Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
as ⁨Drift (voice)⁩
The Last Samurai2003
as ⁨Moritsugu Katsumoto⁩
Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019
as ⁨Lieutenant Hide Yoshida⁩
Godzilla: King of the Monsters2019
as ⁨Dr. Ishiro Serizawa⁩
as ⁨Drift (voice)⁩
as ⁨Head Surgeon (voice)⁩
as ⁨Harun⁩
as ⁨Chairman⁩
as ⁨General Tadamichi Kuribayashi⁩
as ⁨Mr. Tall⁩
as ⁨Takumi Nakamura⁩
as ⁨Gun⁩
as ⁨Narrator (voice)⁩
as ⁨Father⁩
as ⁨Tanaka⁩
as ⁨Masao Yoshida⁩
as ⁨Katsumi Hosokawa⁩
as ⁨Hanjiro Hanai⁩
as ⁨Jubee Kamata⁩
as ⁨Yohei Maki⁩
as ⁨Japanese Narrator (voice)⁩
as ⁨Kensuke (voice)⁩
as ⁨Raita Onuki⁩