Ken Watanabe
渡邊謙
Also known as: 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه, Kensaku Watanabe
- Birthday
- October 21, 1959
- Age
- 67
- Birthplace
- Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Occupation
- Actor
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.
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Filmography
Dramas
Movies
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
Inception
as Saito
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Tampopo
as Gun
TV Shows
Short Dramas
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