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

Godzilla

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Drift (voice)

The Last Samurai

as Moritsugu Katsumoto

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

Transformers: The Last Knight

as Drift (voice)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Isle of Dogs

as Head Surgeon (voice)

The Creator

as Harun