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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.
As actor
Samurai Vengeance
Kokuho
The Final Piece
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
The Creator
True Love: Making The Creator
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Fukushima 50
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
An Artist of the Floating World
Isle of Dogs
Bel Canto
The King and I
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Transformers: The Last Knight
The Memories of Happiness
Rage
The Sea of Trees
Godzilla
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Evolution Within Extinction
Snow Jack
Unforgiven
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Inception