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Ken Watanabe
Actor · 40 credits
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.
Known For
9Inception
2010
Saito
7Batman Begins
2005
Ra's al Ghul
6Godzilla
2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
8Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
5Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
7The Creator
2023
Harun
All Work
Kokuho
2025
Hanjiro Hanai
Unbound
2025
Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
2025
Taichirou Tsujimura
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
Kensuke (voice)
