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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Acting • 1959-10-21 • Uonuma, 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.

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Inception8.4

Inception

2010

The Last Samurai7.6

The Last Samurai

2003

Godzilla: King of the Monsters6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019

Godzilla6.4

Godzilla

2014

Letters from Iwo Jima7.5

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Pokémon Detective Pikachu6.9

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

2019

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