Acting
Ken Watanabe
Born 1959-10-21 · 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.
Known for
The Creator
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Inception
Godzilla
Transformers: The Last Knight
Batman Begins
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Last Samurai
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Sea of Trees
Letters from Iwo Jima
Fukushima 50
Isle of Dogs
Bel Canto
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Tampopo
Earth
Unforgiven
Shanghai
Ashes and Snow
Kubi
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Rage
Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa
Drowning Fish
Year One in the North
Kensuke's Kingdom
Oda Nobunaga
Memories of Tomorrow
Evolution Within Extinction
The King and I
Space Travelers
The Unbroken
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Baian the Assassin
The Sea and Poison
The Memories of Happiness
MacArthur's Children