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Ken Watanabe

1959-10-21

The 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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Movies

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Inception

8.369 average rating
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Batman Begins

7.715 average rating
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Transformers: Age of Extinction

5.944 average rating
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Transformers: The Last Knight

6.058 average rating
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters

6.696 average rating
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Godzilla

6.348 average rating
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The Last Samurai

7.593 average rating
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The Creator

7.05 average rating
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu

6.92 average rating
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Isle of Dogs

7.851 average rating
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Memoirs of a Geisha

7.657 average rating
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

5.848 average rating
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Letters from Iwo Jima

7.477 average rating
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Tampopo

7.861 average rating
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The Sea of Trees

6.217 average rating
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7 Guardians of the Tomb

5.393 average rating
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Kensuke's Kingdom

6.797 average rating
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Shanghai

6.115 average rating
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The Whispered City

9 average rating
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Earth

7.6 average rating