Acting
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.
Titles
Inception
2010
Alice in Borderland
2020
Tokyo Vice
2022
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
Batman Begins
2005
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
The Creator
2023
The Last Samurai
2003
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Godzilla
2014
Isle of Dogs
2018
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
Segodon
2018
TRUE COLORS
2025
Masamune Shogun
1987
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Unbound
2025
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
Kokuho
2025
Hanekonma
1986
The Sea of Trees
2016
Back of Father
2014
Bel Canto
2018
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
Tampopo
1985
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
The Fire Still Burns
1993
Fukushima 50
2020
Shanghai
2010
Earth
2007