Know Your “That Guy”: Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Born: October 21, 1959

Number of Roles: 58

Best Known for Playing: Stoic Japanese military officers and samurai

First Appearance: Tetsuo in MacArthur’s Childern (1984)

Most Recent Appearance: Shigeru Yoshida in Makete katsu (2012)

Can be seen/heard in:

• The Last Samurai
• Batman Begins
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Inception
• Clouds over the Hill
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Unbroken
• Shanghai