PERSON
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Cast
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.
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22indexed credits in this edition
Movies
20 titles
The Creator
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2023·
Movie
Fukushima 50
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2020·
Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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2019·
Movie
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
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2019·
Movie
Isle of Dogs
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2018·
Movie
7 Guardians of the Tomb
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2018·
Movie
Bel Canto
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2018·
Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
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2017·
Movie
The Sea of Trees
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2016·
Movie
Transformers: Age of Extinction
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2014·
Movie
Godzilla
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2014·
Movie
Inception
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2010·
Movie
Shanghai
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2010·
Movie
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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2009·
Movie
Earth
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2007·
Movie
Letters from Iwo Jima
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2006·
Movie
Batman Begins
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2005·
Movie
Memoirs of a Geisha
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2005·
Movie
The Last Samurai
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2003·
Movie
Tampopo
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1985·
Movie
