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.
Known For
Inception
Saito
Transformers: Age of Exti...
Drift (voice)
The Creator
Harun
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Transformers: The Last Kn...
Drift (voice)
Godzilla: King of the Mon...
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)