Known for Acting
Birthday
October 21, 1959
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.

Alice in Borderland

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Tokyo Vice

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Segodon

Back of Father

Masamune Shogun

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

Hojo Tokimune

The Fire Still Burns

Unbound

Gokenin Zankuro

Vessel of Sand

Hanekonma

TRUE COLORS

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

Baian the Assassin

NHK WORLD PRIME

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Toubousha