Ken Watanabe
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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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
7.8
Kagi-shi
0
Oda Nobunaga
0
Vessel of Sand
4
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
9.5
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
0
NHK WORLD PRIME
9
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
0
Masamune Shogun
9.2
Segodon
8.3
強行犯捜査第七係
0
Izakaya Chōji
0
Gokenin Zankuro
8
Waga Machi
0
Tokyo Vice
7.878
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
0
Baian the Assassin
10
五年目のひとり
0
Shimei Tehai
0
Back of Father
8
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
0
Hanekonma
8
Hojo Tokimune
0
The Fire Still Burns
0
Toubousha
7
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
0
Musuko no Gokikan
0
Unbound
9.1
TRUE COLORS
7
A Tale of Two Truncheons
0
Movies
Batman Begins
7.713
Letters from Iwo Jima
7.473
The Last Samurai
7.592
Tampopo
7.853
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
5.841
Inception
8.369
Shanghai
6.1
T.R.Y.
7
Space Travelers
5.9
第三の時効
0
The Creator
7.055
Unforgiven
7
Godzilla
6.345
Memories of Tomorrow
6
The Making of "Tampopo"
0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
7
The Unbroken
6.7
A School Behind Bars
10
Year One in the North
4.9
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
6
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
7
Earth
7.615
Transformers: Age of Extinction
5.943
True Love: Making The Creator
8
The Whispered City
9
Drowning Fish
7
The Sea and Poison
6.9
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
0
MacArthur's Children
5.5
Evolution Within Extinction
7.667
Hanzo, the Razor
0
All Lives
6.7
Transformers: The Last Knight
6.056
Snow Jack
0
Rage
6.858
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
8.5
Kekkon Annai Mystery
8.2
The Sea of Trees
6.2
Commando Invasion
6.2
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
0
Oda Nobunaga
8
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
0
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
6.696
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
6.921
Isle of Dogs
7.85
Bel Canto
5.413
Fukushima 50
6.48
The Memories of Happiness
0
The King and I
7
Kensuke's Kingdom
6.75
Bonds
5.2
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
7.6
Baian the Assassin
0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
0
Memoirs of a Geisha
7.7
7 Guardians of the Tomb
5.401
Another Battle/Conspiracy
0
An Artist of the Floating World
0
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
7
Kokuho
0
盤上の向日葵
0