Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor who achieved international recognition in 'The Last Samurai' and subsequently appeared in multiple Nolan films — as the decoy Ra's al Ghul in 'Batman Begins' and Saito, the mission's financier, in 'Inception'.
Watanabe's Saito in 'Inception' provides the film's moral and philosophical payoff — his final jump of faith into the dream's deepest level to die and return young — embodying the film's theme that the willingness to face death is the only route to peace.
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