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Kensaku Watanabe
Ken Watanabe
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Samurai Vengeance
as Kinji Shinoda
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
All Lives
The Creator
as Harun
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
TV Shows
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
as 東雲朔太郎 · 7 ep.
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu · 48 ep.
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura · 9 ep.
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri · 18 ep.
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman · 1 ep.
Toubousha
2 ep.
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira · 17 ep.
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter · 1 ep.
五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지 · 1 ep.
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎 · 9 ep.
