Birth Day: 1959-10-21
Place of birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan
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.
Credits
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As Kensuke (voice) -
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As Harun -
As Self -
As Masao Yoshida -
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As Lieutenant Hide Yoshida -
As Ono Masuji -
As Dr. Ishiro Serizawa -
As Head Surgeon (voice) -
As Father -
As The King of Siam -
As Katsumi Hosokawa -
As Restaurant Patron -
As Taro Miura -
As Drift (voice) -
As Takumi Nakamura -
As Yohei Maki -
As Reiji Kurata -
As Self -
As Drift (voice) -
As Dr. Ishiro Serizawa -
As Jubee Kamata -
As Junichiro Kawaguchi -
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As Tanaka -
As Saito -
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As Mr. Tall -
As Hajime Onchi -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Masayuki Saeki -
As General Tadamichi Kuribayashi -
As Chairman -
As Ra's al Ghul -
As Komatsubara Hideaki -
As Moritsugu Katsumoto -
As Masanobu Azuma -
As Fujimaki Hiroaki -
As Okubo -
As Miyota -
As Ishida -
As Sakamaki ("Crusher") -
As Detective Sako Akio -
As Raita Onuki -
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As Dr. Baian -
As Kojirō -
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As Mochizuki Koheita -
As Ryoma Sakamoto -
As Dr. Baian -
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As Self -
As Toda -
As Gun -
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As Tetsuo Nakai -
As Samurai Master -
