Ken Watanabe
Actor

Ken Watanabe

12 Movies
12 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 12
Birthday October 21, 1959 (66 years old)
Place of Birth Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also Known As 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه
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Biography

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.

Filmography (102)

Samurai Vengeance 2026
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho 2026
Kokuho 2025
The Final Piece 2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER 2025
Unbound 2025
TRUE COLORS 2025
All Lives 2024
Kensuke's Kingdom 2024
The Creator 2023
True Love: Making The Creator 2023
Tokyo Vice 2022
劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編 2020
Fukushima 50 2020
Toubousha 2020
Alice in Borderland 2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019
An Artist of the Floating World 2019
Isle of Dogs 2018
Bel Canto 2018
The King and I 2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb 2018
Segodon 2018
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
The Memories of Happiness 2017
NHK WORLD PRIME 2017
Rage 2016
The Sea of Trees 2016
五年目のひとり 2016
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk 2015
Godzilla 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
Evolution Within Extinction 2014
Snow Jack 2014
Back of Father 2014
Unforgiven 2013
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home 2012
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - 2011
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo 2011
Inception 2010
Shanghai 2010
A School Behind Bars 2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 2009
The Unbroken 2009
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史 2009
Earth 2007
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' 2007
星ひとつの夜 2007
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
Memories of Tomorrow 2006
Batman Begins 2005
Year One in the North 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha 2005
Ashes and Snow 2005
Vessel of Sand 2004
The Last Samurai 2003
T.R.Y. 2003
第三の時効 2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy 2003
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 2003
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」 2003
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS 2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) 2002
強行犯捜査第七係 2002
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko 2002
Drowning Fish 2001
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji 2001
Hojo Tokimune 2001
Space Travelers 2000
The Whispered City 2000
Ikebukuro West Gate Park 2000
Bonds 1998
Shimei Tehai 1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 1997
Gokenin Zankuro 1995
Hanzo, the Razor 1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown 1993
Kagi-shi 1993
The Fire Still Burns 1993
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi 1992
Oda Nobunaga 1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate 1992
Izakaya Chōji 1992
Waga Machi 1992
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era 1991
Takeda Shingen 1991
Baian the Assassin 1991
Baian the Assassin 1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen 1990
Musuko no Gokikan 1990
Oda Nobunaga 1989
Commando Invasion 1987
Masamune Shogun 1987
The Making of "Tampopo" 1986
The Sea and Poison 1986
Hanekonma 1986
Tampopo 1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery 1985
MacArthur's Children 1984
A Tale of Two Truncheons 1984