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
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The King and I
Takeda Shingen
第三の時効
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Hanzo, the Razor
True Love: Making The Creator
Baian the Assassin
A School Behind Bars
五年目のひとり
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Baian the Assassin
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
The Memories of Happiness
Oda Nobunaga
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
The Making of "Tampopo"
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Izakaya Chōji
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Commando Invasion
星ひとつの夜
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
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