Ken Watanabe
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.
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Place of birth
Koide, Niigata, Japan 
Date of birth
21st October 1959
Movies that starred Ken Watanabe (11 in total)
The Creator [2023]
Harun
Pokémon Detective Pikachu [2019]
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters [2019]
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The King and I [2018]
The King of Siam
Godzilla [2014]
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Inception [2010]
Saito
Earth [2007]
Narrator (voice)
Letters from Iwo Jima [2006]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Batman Begins [2005]
Decoy Ra's al Ghul
Memoirs of a Geisha [2005]
Chairman
The Last Samurai [2003]
Moritsugu Katsumoto
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