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.
Filmography
Ra's al Ghul
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Gun
Saito
Tanaka
Masanobu Azuma
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Harun
Jubee Kamata
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Masayuki Saeki
Hajime Onchi
Komatsubara Hideaki
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Narrator (voice)
Drift (voice)
Ishida
Miyota
Restaurant Patron
Tetsuo Nakai
Drift (voice)
Reiji Kurata
Yohei Maki
Takumi Nakamura
Mochizuki Koheita
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Head Surgeon (voice)
Katsumi Hosokawa
Masao Yoshida
Taro Miura
The King of Siam
Kensuke (voice)
Detective Sako Akio
Raita Onuki
Dr. Baian
Dr. Baian
Chairman
Father
Fujimaki Hiroaki
Ono Masuji
Ryoma Sakamoto
Hanjiro
