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Ken Watanabe

Birthday: 1959-10-21 | Place of Birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Tokyo Vice

Tokyo Vice 2022

Release Date:

2022

Rating: 8

genres:

Drama / Crime

Stars: Ansel Elgort / Ken Watanabe / Rachel Keller /

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Toubousha

Toubousha 2020

Release Date:

2020

Rating: 0

genres:

Crime

Stars: Ken Watanabe / Yui Natsukawa / Etsushi Toyokawa /

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Fukushima 50

Fukushima 50 2020

Release Date:

2020

Rating: 6.1

genres:

Drama / Action / History

Stars:

Ken Watanabe / Koichi Sato / Hidetaka Yoshioka

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019

Release Date:

2019

Rating: 6

genres:

Action / Science Fiction

Stars:

Kyle Chandler / Vera Farmiga / Millie Bobby Brown

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Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019

Release Date:

2019

Rating: 6.5

genres:

Adventure / Fantasy / Action

Stars:

Ryan Reynolds / Justice Smith / Kathryn Newton

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7 Guardians of the Tomb

7 Guardians of the Tomb 2018

Release Date:

2018

Rating: 4.4

genres:

Adventure / Horror / Action

Stars:

Li Bingbing / Kellan Lutz / Kelsey Grammer

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Acting

2022

Tokyo Vice

as Hiroto Katagiri

2020

Fukushima 50

as Masao Yoshida

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2019

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

2018

Bel Canto

as Katsumi Hosokawa

2018

The King and I

as The King of Siam

2016

The Sea of Trees

as Takumi Nakamura

2014

Godzilla

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2010

Inception

as Saito

2010

Shanghai

as Tanaka

2009

Earth

as Narrator

2006

Letters from Iwo Jima

as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

as Chairman

2005

Batman Begins

as Decoy Ra's al Ghul

2003

T.R.Y.

as Masanobu Azuma

2003

The Last Samurai

as Moritsugu Katsumoto

1984

MacArthur's Children

as Tetsuo Nakai