Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 21, 1959 (age 67)
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also Known As
- 渡邊謙
- 渡辺 謙
- کِن واتانابه
- ک ِن واتانابه
- Kensaku Watanabe
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 Inception.
Known For - Movies
Inception
as Saito
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
The Creator
as Harun
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Known For - TV Shows
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎