Ken Watanabe has signed up for director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi thriller, Inception, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Watanabe joins a cast that already includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine. The Oscar-nominated Japanese actor (The Last Samurai) is reported to be playing the movie’s villain, who is blackmailing DiCaprio. Watanabe previously worked with Nolan on 2005′s Batman Begins. Inception is scheduled to be released in July 2010.
May 5
2009
09:24 PM ET
Ken Watanabe joins Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'
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Best cast ever. Best director of his generation. ‘Inception’ will be an outstanding movie.
What an amazing cast. I can’t wait to see this!
No idea who Watanabe is, but the rest of the cast looks AMAZING! Wow…should be awesome. May I say Oscar?
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Adam, you don’t know who Ken Watanabe is? Time to climb out from under your rock and see The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Batman Begins. Oh, and this movie is going to rock; Christopher Nolan doesn’t know how to make a bad movie.
watanabe is an amazing actor. see LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA! amazing film. watanabe rules the day.