Actor

Ken Watanabe

1984–presentb. 1959DramaActionAdventureComedy

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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Known For

68 acting credits

as Saito

Inception

as Saito

2010

Inception

as Ra's al Ghul

Batman Begins

as Ra's al Ghul

2005

Batman Begins

Filmography

2026Samurai VengeanceKinji Shinoda9.2 2025KokuhoHanjiro Hanai8.0 2025The Final PieceShigeyoshi Toumyo9.4 2025LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER 2024All Lives6.7 2024Kensuke's KingdomKensuke (voice)7.2 2023

About

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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