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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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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
(2019)
Most waited movies 2019 |
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | - |
| 2 |
Isle of Dogs
(2018)
Top movies in 2018 |
Head Surgeon (voice) | 7.3 |
| 3 | Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) | Drift (voice) | 5.2 |
| 4 | The Sea of Trees (2016) | Takumi Nakamura | 6 |
| 5 | Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) | Drift (voice) | 6.3 |
| 6 |
Godzilla
(2014)
Top movies in 2014 |
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 6.6 |
| 7 | Unforgiven (2013) | Jubee Kamata | 8.2 |
| 8 | Shanghai (2010) | Tanaka | 6.6 |
| 9 |
Inception
(2010)
Top 100 by FilmGator |
Saito | 8.5 |
| 10 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | Mr. Tall | 5.9 |
| 11 | Earth (2007) | Narrator | 8.7 |
| 12 |
Letters from Iwo Jima
(2006)
Oscars 2007 |
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 7.8 |
| 13 |
Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005)
Oscars 2006 |
The Chairman | 7.5 |
| 14 |
Batman Begins
(2005)
Top 100 by FilmGator |
Decoy Ra's Al Ghul | 7.9 |
| 15 | Ashes and Snow (2005) | Japanese Narrator (voice) | 9 |
| 16 |
The Last Samurai
(2003)
Oscars 2004 |
Katsumoto | 7.3 |
| 17 | Tampopo (1985) | Gun | 8.3 |
