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…
Ken Watanabe
Actor · Born 21 Oct 1959, Uonuma
Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he…
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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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- Born21 October 1959 (age 67)Kartik 4, 2016 BS
- BirthplaceUonuma, Niigata, Japan
- Known forActing
- GenderMale
- Also known as渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه, Kensaku Watanabe, Ken Watanabe
- Popularity3.4TMDB score
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Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
Samurai Vengeance
The Final Piece
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kokuho
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
True Love: Making The Creator
The Creator
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Fukushima 50
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
An Artist of the Floating World
The King and I
Bel Canto
Isle of Dogs
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Transformers: The Last Knight
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
TV 35
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
Unbound
TRUE COLORS
Tokyo Vice
Alice in Borderland
Toubousha
Segodon
NHK WORLD PRIME
五年目のひとり
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Back of Father
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
Vessel of Sand
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
強行犯捜査第七係
Hojo Tokimune
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Inception (2010)·Batman Begins (2005)·Godzilla (2014)·Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)·The Last Samurai (2003)·Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)