Ken Watanabe
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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.
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Known For
Transformers: Age of Extinction
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Transformers: The Last Knight
Isle of Dogs
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Batman Begins
The Authority
Godzilla
Shanghai
The Creator
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Inception
The Last Samurai
Tokyo Vice
Letters from Iwo Jima
Production Credits
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