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.
Share
Tweet
Email
Movies starring Ken Watanabe (59)
An Artist of the Floating World (2019)
Ono Masuji
The Memories of Happiness (2017)
Taro Miura
Another Battle/Conspiracy (2003)
Fujimaki Hiroaki
T.R.Y. (2003)
Masanobu Azuma
Drowning Fish (2001)
Miyota
Space Travelers (2000)
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Bonds (1998)
Detective Sako Akio
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era (1991)
Ryoma Sakamoto
Movies Made by Ken Watanabe (3)
Harimao (1989)
Producer
More Images of Ken Watanabe
