Ken Watanabe
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.
Acting
Movie
Inception
as Saito
2010
Movie
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
2005
Movie
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014
Movie
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
2014
Movie
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003
Movie
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
2017
Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
Movie
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
Movie
The Creator
as Harun
2023
Movie
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Le président
2005
TV
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
2020
Movie
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006
Movie
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
2009
Movie
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
2016
Movie
Tampopo
as Gun
1985
TV
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
2022
Movie
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Movie
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
2018
Movie
Shanghai
as Tanaka
2010
Movie
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
2020
Movie
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
Movie
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
2013
Movie
Rage
as Yohei Maki
2016
