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.
Cast
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Tampopo
Gun
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Inception
Saito
Shanghai
Tanaka
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
第三の時効
Unknown
The Creator
Harun
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Unknown
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
A School Behind Bars
Unknown
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Earth
Narrator (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
The Whispered City
Ishida
Drowning Fish
Miyota
The Sea and Poison
Toda
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Hanzo, the Razor
Unknown
All Lives
Unknown
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Rage
Yohei Maki
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Unknown
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Commando Invasion
Unknown
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Unknown
Oda Nobunaga
Unknown
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
The King and I
The King of Siam
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
Revenge in Kobikicho
Kinji Shinoda
The Cartier Panther
Unknown
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji
