Ken Watanabe
Birthday: 1959-10-21 | Place of Birth: Koide, Niigata, JapanKen 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Hiroto Katagiri
as Masao Yoshida
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
as Katsumi Hosokawa
as The King of Siam
as Takumi Nakamura
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
as Saito
as Tanaka
as Narrator (voice)
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
as Chairman
as Ra's al Ghul
as Masanobu Azuma
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
as Tetsuo Nakai
