Ken Watanabe
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-10-21 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also known As
渡邊謙
渡辺 謙
کِن واتانابه
ک ِن واتانابه
Ken Watanabe
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.
Acting
2005
as Ra's al Ghul
2006
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2003
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
1985
as Gun
2009
as Mr. Tall
2010
as Saito
2010
as Tanaka
2003
as Masanobu Azuma
2000
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
2023
as Harun
2013
as Jubee Kamata
2014
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2006
as Masayuki Saeki
1986
as Self
2009
as Hajime Onchi
2005
as Komatsubara Hideaki
2012
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
2002
2007
as Narrator (voice)
2014
as Drift (voice)
2023
2000
as Ishida
2001
as Miyota
1986
as Toda
2017
as Restaurant Patron
1984
as Tetsuo Nakai
2014
as Self
1993
2024
2017
as Drift (voice)
2014
as Reiji Kurata
2016
as Yohei Maki
1992
as Kojirō
2016
as Takumi Nakamura
1992
1992
as Mochizuki Koheita
2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2018
as Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa
2020
as Masao Yoshida
2017
as Taro Miura
2018
as The King of Siam
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
1998
as Detective Sako Akio
1997
as Raita Onuki
1990
as Dr. Baian
1993
as Dr. Baian
2005
as Chairman
2018
as Father
2003
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
2019
as Ono Masuji
1991
as Ryoma Sakamoto
2025
as Hanjiro
2025
Production
1989
as Producer
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