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