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.
Known For
96 titles
MacArthur's Children
Evolution Within Extinction
The Unbroken
The Whispered City
Toubousha
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
An Artist of the Floating World
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Drowning Fish
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
T.R.Y.
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
All Lives
Bonds
The King and I
The Sea and Poison
Memories of Tomorrow
Kagi-shi
Snow Jack
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
第三の時効
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