Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read bio at tmdb | Read bio at Wikipedia
- Born:
- Oct 21, 1959 In Koide, Niigata, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 85
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance 1980-08-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Revenge in Kobikicho 2026-02-27
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Revenge in Kobikicho | Kinji Shinoda | 2026-02-27 |
| Series | Unbound | Tamema Okitsugu | 2025-01-05 |
| Movie | Kokuho | Hanjiro Hanai | 2025-06-06 |
| Movie | The Final Piece | Shigeyoshi Toumyo | 2025-10-31 |
| Movie | Kensuke's Kingdom | Kensuke (voice) | 2024-02-07 |
| Movie | All Lives | 2024-05-06 | |
| Movie | The Creator | Harun | 2023-09-27 |
| Series | Tokyo Vice | Hiroto Katagiri | 2022-04-07 |
| Movie | Godzilla vs. Kong | Bar Patron (uncredited) | 2021-03-24 |
| Movie | Fukushima 50 | Masao Yoshida | 2020-03-06 |
| Series | Toubousha | 2020-12-05 | |
| Movie | 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | 2020-10-31 | |
| Movie | An Artist of the Floating World | Ono Masuji | 2019-03-30 |
| Movie | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-05-29 |
| Movie | 7 Guardians of the Tomb | Father | 2018-01-19 |
| Movie | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| Movie | The King and I | The King of Siam | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Bel Canto | Katsumi Hosokawa | 2018-09-13 |
| Movie | Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween | Restaurant Patron | 2017-01-28 |
| Movie | The Memories of Happiness | Taro Miura | 2017-01-08 |
| Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Movie | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | Rage | Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| Series | 五年目のひとり | 키자키 슈지 | 2016-11-19 |
| Movie | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Movie | Evolution Within Extinction | Self | 2014-09-30 |
| Series | Back of Father | 2014-07-13 | |
| Movie | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Movie | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Series | Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo | Regular | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-11 | |
| Movie | Inception | Saito | 2010-07-15 |
| Movie | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-10 |
| Movie | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Movie | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-09 |
| Movie | Ashes and Snow | Japanese Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
| Movie | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Series | Vessel of Sand | Shuichiro Imanishi | 2004-01-18 |
| Movie | Another Battle/Conspiracy | Fujimaki Hiroaki | 2003-02-15 |
| Movie | T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | 2003-01-11 |
| Movie | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Movie | 第三の時効 | 2003-02-24 | |
| Series | 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 | 2003-12-21 | |
| Movie | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Series | Hojo Tokimune | Hojo Tokiyori | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| Movie | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Movie | The Whispered City | Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Series | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | Bonds | Detective Sako Akio | 1998-06-06 |
| Movie | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki | 1997-11-08 |
| Series | Gokenin Zankuro | Zankuro Matsudaira | 1995-01-09 |
| Series | Kagi-shi | 1993-03-12 | |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin: Showdown | Dr. Baian | 1993-10-06 |
| Movie | Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi | Kojirō | 1992-01-01 |
| Movie | Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 | |
| Series | Izakaya Chōji | 1992-07-10 | |
| Movie | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | 1992-12-23 |
| Movie | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Ryoma Sakamoto | 1991-07-06 |
| Series | Baian the Assassin | Fujieda Baian | 1991-10-09 |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin | Dr. Baian | 1990-12-26 |
| Series | Oda Nobunaga | 1989-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Last American Soldier | Father | 1988-06-05 |
| Movie | Karate Warrior 2 | Kimura | 1988-09-22 |
| Series | Masamune Shogun | 伊達政宗 | 1987-01-04 |
| Movie | Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Karate Warrior | Master Kimura | 1987-09-03 |
| Movie | The Making of "Tampopo" | Self | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Sea and Poison | Toda | 1986-10-17 |
| Movie | Double Edge | Yoshiro | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Ninja Warriors | Kuroda | 1985-06-01 |
| Movie | Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 | |
| Movie | Tampopo | Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Movie | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Movie | Ninja's Force | 1984-09-07 | |
| Movie | Invaders of the Lost Gold | Lt. Toyoda | 1982-09-20 |
| Movie | Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance | Samurai Master | 1980-08-22 |