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Ken Watanabe

Acting
Known For

65 Years Old

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.

Born

Uonuma, Niigata, Japan on 21st October 1959

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Tokyo Vice
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Unbound
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Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
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Inception
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Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park
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Back of Father
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Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
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Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira
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NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
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Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
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The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
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Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
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The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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The Creator
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
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Musuko no Gokikan
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Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
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藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
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Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
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Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
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Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
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Tampopo
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Tanaka
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
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Bel Canto
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Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
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Earth
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Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
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The Sea of Trees
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川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
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Kokuho
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Unforgiven
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Evolution Within Extinction
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Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
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Rage
Yohei Maki
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The Sea and Poison
Toda
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Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
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Toubousha
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An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
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Space Travelers
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T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
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All Lives
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Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
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Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
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The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
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TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
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Waga Machi
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Izakaya Chōji
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The Whispered City
Ishida
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
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Hanzo, the Razor
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Bonds
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Drowning Fish
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MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
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第三の時効
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The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
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A Tale of Two Truncheons
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五年目のひとり
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A School Behind Bars
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Baian the Assassin
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
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Oda Nobunaga
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
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盤上の向日葵
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True Love: Making The Creator
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
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Commando Invasion
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The Making of "Tampopo"
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
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