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Ken Watanabe

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GenderMale

Birthday1959-10-21

Place of BirthUonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

BiographyKen 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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InceptionSaito

Tokyo ViceHiroto Katagiri

TampopoGun

Isle of DogsHead Surgeon (voice)

Batman BeginsRa's al Ghul

Memoirs of a GeishaChairman

EarthNarrator (voice)

The Last SamuraiMoritsugu Katsumoto

Letters from Iwo JimaGeneral Tadamichi Kuribayashi

The CreatorHarun

Pokémon Detective PikachuLieutenant Hide Yoshida

Godzilla: King of the MonstersDr. Ishiro Serizawa

Fukushima 50Masao Yoshida

GodzillaDr. Ishiro Serizawa

The Sea of TreesTakumi Nakamura