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Ken Watanabe
Born · October 21, 1959 (65 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Bio
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.
盤上の向日葵
0.0
2025
National Treasure
0.0
2025
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu · (20 episodes)
9.1
2025
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura · (9 episodes)
7.0
2025
All Lives
6.7
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
6.8
2024
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
8.0
2023
The Creator
Harun
7.1
2023
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri · (18 episodes)
7.9
2022
Toubousha
(2 episodes)
7.0
2020
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
7.0
2020
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
6.5
2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.7
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
6.9
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
0.0
2019
The King and I
The King of Siam
7.0
2018
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
5.4
2018
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
7.8
2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
5.4
2018
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira · (17 episodes)
8.3
2018
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
9.0
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
6.1
2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
0.0
2017
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
0.0
2017
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지 · (1 episode)
0.0
2016
Rage
Yohei Maki
6.9
2016
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
6.2
2016
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
7.5
2014
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
0.0
2014
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji · (1 episode)
8.0
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
5.9
2014
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.3
2014
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
7.0
2013
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
5.3
2012
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular · (1 episode)
0.0
2011
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
0.0
2011
A School Behind Bars
10.0
2010
Inception
Saito
8.4
2010
Shanghai
Tanaka
6.1
2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
5.8
2009
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
6.7
2009
Earth
Narrator (voice)
7.6
2007
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
7.5
2006
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
6.0
2006
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
7.7
2005
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
7.7
2005
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
4.9
2005
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi · (11 episodes)
4.0
2004
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
(6 episodes)
0.0
2003
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
7.6
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
0.0
2003
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
(1 episode)
0.0
2003
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
7.0
2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
(4 episodes)
0.0
2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
(6 episodes)
0.0
2002
強行犯捜査第七係
(1 episode)
0.0
2002
Drowning Fish
Miyota
7.0
2001
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori · (49 episodes)
0.0
2001
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama · (11 episodes)
7.8
2000
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
5.9
2000
Shimei Tehai
(4 episodes)
0.0
1998
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
5.2
1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
7.6
1997
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira · (8 episodes)
8.0
1995
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
0.0
1993
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo · (35 episodes)
0.0
1993
Kagi-shi
(1 episode)
0.0
1993
Hanzo, the Razor
0.0
1993
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
0.0
1992
Waga Machi
(10 episodes)
0.0
1992
Izakaya Chōji
(1 episode)
0.0
1992
Oda Nobunaga
8.0
1992
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian · (5 episodes)
10.0
1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
7.0
1991
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
0.0
1990
Musuko no Gokikan
(2 episodes)
0.0
1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
(5 episodes)
9.5
1990
Oda Nobunaga
(1 episode)
0.0
1989
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗 · (50 episodes)
9.2
1987
Commando Invasion
6.2
1987
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera · (156 episodes)
8.0
1986
Tampopo
Gun
7.9
1985
第三の時効
0.0
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
7.0
2002
The Whispered City
Ishida
9.0
2000
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
8.5
1992
The Sea and Poison
Toda
6.9
1986
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
0.0
1986
Kekkon Annai Mystery
8.2
1985
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
5.4
1984
A Tale of Two Truncheons
(13 episodes)
0.0
1984
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
Samurai Master
7.0
1980