Ken Watanabe
Actor| Birthday | Oct 21, 1959 (65 years old) |
| Place of birth | Koide, Niigata, Japan |
| Gender | Male |
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
8.4
Saito
Jul 15, 2010
Ra's al Ghul
Jun 10, 2005
6.3
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
May 14, 2014
Drift (voice)
Jun 25, 2014
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Dec 5, 2003
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
May 3, 2019
Drift (voice)
Jun 16, 2017
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
May 29, 2019
7.9
Head Surgeon (voice)
Mar 23, 2018
Chairman
Dec 6, 2005
7.1
Harun
Sep 27, 2023
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Dec 9, 2006
Mr. Tall
Oct 23, 2009
Takumi Nakamura
Apr 27, 2016
7.9
Gun
Nov 23, 1985
7.6
Narrator (voice)
Oct 10, 2007
7.9
Hiroto Katagiri
Apr 7, 2022
Father
Jan 19, 2018
6.1
Tanaka
Jun 10, 2010
6.4
Masao Yoshida
Mar 6, 2020
Acting
Participated in 61 movies, 26 TV series
