Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 10/21/1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه, Kensaku Watanabe
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.
12 titles
Inception
2010
Saito
Batman Begins
2005
Ra's al Ghul
Godzilla
2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
2003
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Drift (voice)
Isle of Dogs
2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
The Creator
2023
Harun
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Chairman
Alice in Borderland
2020TV
Old Gentleman
