This is not a joke o.k. this is what happens in HOllywood:)
Due to the weird twists and turns in the entertainment industry...
Ken Watanabe (Last Samurai, MIbugishiden TV series)...will be Batman's
arch enemy Ra's Al Ghul in the 2005 release of BATMAN:Beginnings
*I happened to have grown up watching BAtman the ANimated Series and
so I'm very familiar with this villain
Pics of Ken Watanabe on the red carpet for the Academy awards
http://www.tmsdancer.com/ken_watanabe/news_ken_watanabe.html
The above mentioned news is all over Batman related sites on the net
as well and on a Japanese online newspaper.
Mr. Watanabe looks very handsome as himself from the pics on the
site...I just don't want to know what they'll do to him to transform
him into "THE DEMON's HEAD"...