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.

Cast

Batman Begins

(Ra's al Ghul)

Letters from Iwo Jima

(General Tadamichi Kuribayashi)

The Last Samurai

(Moritsugu Katsumoto)

Tampopo

(Gun)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

(Mr. Tall)

Inception

(Saito)

Shanghai

(Tanaka)

T.R.Y.

(Masanobu Azuma)

Space Travelers

(Sakamaki ("Crusher"))

第三の時効

The Creator

(Harun)

Unforgiven

(Jubee Kamata)

Godzilla

(Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)

Memories of Tomorrow

(Masayuki Saeki)

The Making of "Tampopo"

(Self)

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The Unbroken

(Hajime Onchi)

A School Behind Bars

Year One in the North

(Komatsubara Hideaki)

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

(Junichiro Kawaguchi)

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

(Okubo)

Earth

(Narrator (voice))

Transformers: Age of Extinction

(Drift (voice))

True Love: Making The Creator

(Self)

The Whispered City

(Ishida)

Drowning Fish

(Miyota)

The Sea and Poison

(Toda)

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

(Restaurant Patron)

MacArthur's Children

(Tetsuo Nakai)

Evolution Within Extinction

(Self)

Hanzo, the Razor

All Lives

Transformers: The Last Knight

(Drift (voice))

Snow Jack

(Reiji Kurata)

Rage

(Yohei Maki)

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

(Kojirō)

Kekkon Annai Mystery

The Sea of Trees

(Takumi Nakamura)

Commando Invasion

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

Oda Nobunaga

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

(Mochizuki Koheita)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

(Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)

Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance

(Samurai Master)

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

(Lieutenant Hide Yoshida)

Isle of Dogs

(Head Surgeon (voice))

Bel Canto

(Katsumi Hosokawa)

Fukushima 50

(Masao Yoshida)

The Memories of Happiness

(Taro Miura)

The King and I

(The King of Siam)

Kensuke's Kingdom

(Kensuke (voice))

Bonds

(Detective Sako Akio)

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

(Raita Onuki)

Baian the Assassin

(Dr. Baian)

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

(Dr. Baian)

Memoirs of a Geisha

(Chairman)

7 Guardians of the Tomb

(Father)

Another Battle/Conspiracy

(Fujimaki Hiroaki)

An Artist of the Floating World

(Ono Masuji)

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

(Ryoma Sakamoto)

National Treasure

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

(Yokoyama)

Kagi-shi

Oda Nobunaga

Vessel of Sand

(Shuichiro Imanishi)

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

NHK WORLD PRIME

(Self - Presenter)

横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)

Masamune Shogun

(伊達政宗)

Segodon

(Shimazu Nariakira)

強行犯捜査第七係

Izakaya Chōji

Gokenin Zankuro

(Zankuro Matsudaira)

Waga Machi

Tokyo Vice

(Hiroto Katagiri)

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Baian the Assassin

(Fujieda Baian)

五年目のひとり

(키자키 슈지)

Shimei Tehai

Back of Father

(Takamura Kouji)

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」

Hanekonma

(Genzo Onodera)

Hojo Tokimune

(Hojo Tokiyori)

The Fire Still Burns

(Fujiwara Tsunekiyo)

Toubousha

Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo

(Regular)