Not much else has been revealed about the Academy Award nominee’s character, as it’s a brand new role designed for the film itself.
So it’s pretty clear that the level of Japanese gravitas in Detective Pikachu just went through the roof.
Ken Watanabe has officially signed on to portray a character named Detective Yoshida in Rob Letterman’s Detective Pikachu, which is expected to begin shooting later this month.
But given his status as a detective, we can reasonably assume that he may have a close relationship with the one and only Pikachu.