Ken Watanabe

Known for

Acting

Age

67 years

Place of birth

Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Biography

Life and career

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.

Filmography

19 films

Ken Watanabe

Biography

Filmography

Kokuho

The Creator

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Bel Canto

Isle of Dogs

7 Guardians of the Tomb

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Godzilla

Inception

Shanghai

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Earth

Letters from Iwo Jima

Memoirs of a Geisha

Batman Begins

The Last Samurai

Tampopo