Ken Watanabe
Born: 1959-10-21
From: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
About: 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.
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
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Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
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Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
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An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
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