Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/21/1959
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also Known As
渡邊謙渡辺 謙کِن واتانابه
Ken 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 ...
Known For
Inception
as Saito
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
The Creator
as Harun
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Tampopo
as Gun
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Unknown Role
All Lives
Unknown Role
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
Rage
as Yohei Maki
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata