
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.

as Kinji Shinoda

as Shigeyoshi Toumyo

as Hanjiro Hanai

as Kensuke (voice)

as Harun

as Masao Yoshida

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

as Ono Masuji

as The King of Siam

as Katsumi Hosokawa

as Head Surgeon (voice)

as Father

as Drift (voice)

as Restaurant Patron

as Taro Miura

as Yohei Maki

as Takumi Nakamura

as Self

as Reiji Kurata

as Drift (voice)

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

as Jubee Kamata

as Junichiro Kawaguchi

as Saito

as Tanaka

as Mr. Tall

as Hajime Onchi

as Narrator (voice)

as Nonoyama Hiroji

as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

as Masayuki Saeki

as Chairman

as Ra's al Ghul

as Japanese Narrator (voice)

as Komatsubara Hideaki

as Moritsugu Katsumoto

as Fujimaki Hiroaki

as Masanobu Azuma

as Miyota

as Munesue Koichiro

as Ishida

as Sakamaki ("Crusher")

as Detective Sako Akio

as Raita Onuki

as Dr. Baian

as Mochizuki Koheita

as Kojirō

as Ryoma Sakamoto

as Narrator

as Dr. Baian

as Toda

as Self

as Gun

as Tetsuo Nakai