Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 21, 1959 In Koide, Niigata, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 42
- First Appeared:
- In the movie MacArthur's Children 1984-06-23
- Latest Project:
- Movie Godzilla: King of Monsters 2019-03-20
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Godzilla: King of Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Asgardian Noble | 2017-10-25 |
| Movie | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | Rage | Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| Movie | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Movie | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Movie | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Movie | Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | Inception | Saito | 2010-07-14 |
| Movie | A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-10 | |
| Movie | The Unbroken | 恩地元 | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | Clouds Over the Hill | Unknown | 2009-11-29 |
| Movie | Earth | Narrator | 2007-04-22 |
| Movie | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Movie | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-19 |
| Movie | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | The Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Movie | Batman Begins | Ra's Al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Series | Suna no Utsuwa | 2004-01-18 | |
| Movie | T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | 2003-01-11 |
| Movie | The Last Samurai | Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Movie | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Movie | Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| Series | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | 2000-04-03 |
| Movie | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Movie | Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa | Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Movie | Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 | |
| Movie | Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi | Kojiro | 1992-02-09 |
| Movie | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Karate Warrior | Maestro Kimura | 1987-08-07 |
| Movie | Ninja Force II | Yoshiro | 1986-06-10 |
| Movie | The Sea and Poison | 1986-10-17 | |
| Movie | Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 | |
| Movie | Tampopo | Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Movie | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Movie | Ninja's Force | 1984-09-07 |