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Actor

Ken Watanabe

Born 21 October 1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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.

Films and shows

  1. 2026Samurai Vengeance2hKinji Shinoda
  2. 2026Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho1 season東雲朔太郎
  3. 2026Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -2h 11mSelf
  4. 2025The Final Piece2h 3mShigeyoshi Toumyo
  5. 2025Kokuho2h 54mHanjiro Hanai
  6. 2025LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER7m
  7. 2025TRUE COLORS1 seasonTaichirou Tsujimura
  8. 2025Unbound1 seasonTamema Okitsugu
  9. 2024Kensuke's Kingdom1h 24mKensuke (voice)
  10. 2024All Lives1h 49m
  11. 2023The Creator2h 14mHarun
  12. 2023True Love: Making The Creator55mSelf
  13. 2022Tokyo Vice2 seasonsHiroto Katagiri
  14. 2020Fukushima 502h 2mMasao Yoshida
  15. 2020劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
  16. 2020Toubousha1 season
  17. 2019An Artist of the Floating World1h 29mOno Masuji
  18. 2019Pokémon Detective Pikachu1h 45mLieutenant Hide Yoshida
  19. 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters2h 12mDr. Ishiro Serizawa
  20. 2018The King and I2h 39mThe King of Siam
  21. 2018Bel Canto1h 40mKatsumi Hosokawa
  22. 2018Isle of Dogs1h 41mHead Surgeon (voice)
  23. 20187 Guardians of the Tomb1h 30mFather
  24. 2017The Memories of Happiness2h 3mTaro Miura
  25. 2017Dirty, Clean, & InbetweenRestaurant Patron
  26. 2016Rage2h 22mYohei Maki
  27. 2016五年目のひとり1 season키자키 슈지
  28. 2016The Sea of Trees1h 50mTakumi Nakamura
  29. 2015The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk3 seasons東雲朔太郎
  30. 2014Snow Jack2h 10mReiji Kurata
  31. 2014Godzilla2h 3mDr. Ishiro Serizawa
  32. 2014Evolution Within Extinction2h 3mSelf
  33. 2014Transformers: Age of Extinction2h 45mDrift (voice)
  34. 2013Unforgiven2h 15mJubee Kamata
  35. 2012Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home2h 16mJunichiro Kawaguchi
  36. 2011Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo1 seasonRegular
  37. 2011Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
  38. 2010Inception2h 28mSaito
  39. 2010Shanghai1h 45mTanaka
  40. 2010A School Behind Bars2h 2m
  41. 2009The Unbroken3h 22mHajime Onchi
  42. 2009刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史1 season
  43. 2009Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant1h 49mMr. Tall
  44. 2007星ひとつの夜1h 33mNonoyama Hiroji
  45. 2007Earth1h 30mNarrator (voice)
  46. 2007Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'21mSelf
  47. 2006Letters from Iwo Jima2h 21mGeneral Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  48. 2006Memories of Tomorrow2h 2mMasayuki Saeki
  49. 2005Year One in the North2h 49mKomatsubara Hideaki
  50. 2005Ashes and Snow1h 2mJapanese Narrator (voice)
  51. 2005Memoirs of a Geisha2h 26mLe président
  52. 2005Batman Begins2h 20mRa's al Ghul
  53. 2004Vessel of Sand1 seasonShuichiro Imanishi
  54. 2003Another Battle/Conspiracy1h 50mFujimaki Hiroaki
  55. 2003The Last Samurai2h 34mMoritsugu Katsumoto
  56. 2003T.R.Y.1h 44mMasanobu Azuma
  57. 2003第三の時効
  58. 2003川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語1 season
  59. 2003藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」1 season
  60. 2002Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS1h 48mOkubo
  61. 2002横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)1 season
  62. 2002Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko1 season
  63. 2002強行犯捜査第七係1 season
  64. 2001Proof of the Man 20012h 24mMunesue Koichiro
  65. 2001Hojo Tokimune1 seasonHojo Tokiyori
  66. 2001Drowning Fish1h 41mMiyota
  67. 2001Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji2h 23m
  68. 2000Ikebukuro West Gate Park1 seasonYokoyama
  69. 2000Space Travelers2h 5mSakamaki ("Crusher")
  70. 2000The Whispered City1h 45mIshida
  71. 1998Bonds2h 3mDetective Sako Akio
  72. 1998Shimei Tehai1 season
  73. 1997Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald1h 43mRaita Onuki
  74. 1993Baian the Assassin: Showdown1h 35mDr. Baian
  75. 1993The Fire Still Burns3 seasonsFujiwara Tsunekiyo
  76. 1993Kagi-shi1 season
  77. 1993Hanzo, the Razor1h 33m
  78. 1992Chronicle of the Town Magistrate1h 34mMochizuki Koheita
  79. 1992Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi1h 59mKojirō
  80. 1992Oda Nobunaga4h
  81. 1992Waga Machi1 season
  82. 1992Izakaya Chōji1 season
  83. 1991A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era1h 42mRyoma Sakamoto
  84. 1991Baian the Assassin1 seasonFujieda Baian
  85. 1991Takeda Shingen4h 3mNarrator
  86. 1990Baian the Assassin1h 35mDr. Baian
  87. 1990Musuko no Gokikan1 season
  88. 1989Oda Nobunaga1 season
  89. 1989Harimao2h 9mProducer
  90. 1987Masamune Shogun1 season伊達政宗
  91. 1987Commando Invasion1h 25m
  92. 1986The Sea and Poison2h 3mToda
  93. 1986Hanekonma1 seasonGenzo Onodera
  94. 1986The Making of "Tampopo"1h 30mSelf
  95. 1985Tampopo1h 55mGun
  96. 1985Kekkon Annai Mystery1h 31m
  97. 1984MacArthur's Children2h 23mTetsuo Nakai
  98. 1984A Tale of Two Truncheons1 season
  99. あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－1 season