Ken Watanabe
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.
6 TV shows
TV Shows
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Network unknown
Segodon
NHK BS1
Masamune Shogun
NHK
Tokyo Vice
HBO Max
Hanekonma
NHK G
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
NHK G
Other Credits
Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Kagi-shi, Oda Nobunaga, Vessel of Sand, 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語, NHK WORLD PRIME, 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS), 強行犯捜査第七係, Izakaya Chōji, Gokenin Zankuro, Waga Machi, Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko, Baian the Assassin, 五年目のひとり, Shimei Tehai, Back of Father, 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」, Hojo Tokimune, The Fire Still Burns, Toubousha, Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo, Musuko no Gokikan, Unbound, TRUE COLORS, A Tale of Two Truncheons, Alice in Borderland, 刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史, Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho