Ken Watanabe is both a Japanese and American actor.
He is most known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and Inception, although he has been in many other American films including The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Memories of Tomorrow, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, and Shanghai.
Ken Watanabe will star in a Japanese remake of the 1990 Western film Unforgiven. The film will follow a Samurai who comes out of retirement for one last job.