Ken Watanabe
Country: Japan
Gender: M
Birthday: 1959-10-21
Biography
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.
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Actor:
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1. Ninja's Force (1984), film
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2. Tampopo (1985), film...Gun
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3. Double Edge (1985), film
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4. Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000), series
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5. The Last Samurai (2003), film...Katsumoto
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6. Batman Begins (2005), film...Ra's Al Ghul
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7. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), film...Chairman
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8. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), film...General Kuribayashi
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9. Memories of Tomorrow (2006), film
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...Mr. Tall
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11. Inception (2010), film...Saito
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12. Shanghai (2010), film...Tanaka
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13. Unforgiven (2013), film...Jubee kamata
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14. Godzilla (2014), film...Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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15. The Sea of Trees (2015), film...Takumi Nakamura
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16. Rage (2016), film...Yohei Maki
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17. NHK World Prime (2017), series...Saito
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18. Bel Canto (2018), film...Hosokawa
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19. Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), film...Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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20. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), film...Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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21. Fukushima 50 (2020), film...Masao Yoshida
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22. Tokyo Vice (2022), series...Hiroto Katagiri
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23. True Love (2023), film...Harun
Voice:
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...Drift
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2. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), film...Drift
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3. Isle of Dogs (2018), film...Head Surgeon
Narrator:
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1. Earth (2007), film