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Born · October 21, 1959 (65 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Koide, 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.
6.5
2024
Self
8.0
2023
Harun
7.1
2023
7.0
2020
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.7
2019
Drift (voice)
6.1
2017
Restaurant Patron
0.0
2017
Yohei Maki
6.7
2016
Takumi Nakamura
6.2
2016
Self
7.5
2014
Reiji Kurata
0.0
2014
Drift (voice)
5.9
2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.3
2014
Jubee Kamata
7.0
2013
Junichiro Kawaguchi
4.5
2012
0.0
2011
10.0
2010
Saito
8.4
2010
Tanaka
6.1
2010
Mr. Tall
5.8
2009
Hajime Onchi
6.7
2009
Narrator (voice)
7.6
2007
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
7.5
2006
Masayuki Saeki
6.0
2006
Ra's al Ghul
7.7
2005
Komatsubara Hideaki
4.9
2005
Moritsugu Katsumoto
7.6
2003
Masanobu Azuma
7.0
2003
Miyota
7.0
2001
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
5.5
2000
0.0
1993
Mochizuki Koheita
0.0
1992
8.0
1992
6.2
1987
Gun
7.9
1985
0.0
0.0
2025
Kensuke (voice)
6.7
2024
Hiroto Katagiri · (18 episodes)
7.9
2022
(2 episodes)
7.0
2020
Masao Yoshida
6.4
2020
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
6.9
2019
Ono Masuji
0.0
2019
The King of Siam
7.0
2018
Katsumi Hosokawa
5.4
2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
7.9
2018
Father
5.4
2018
Shimazu Nariakira · (17 episodes)
8.2
2018
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
9.0
2017
Taro Miura
0.0
2017
키자키 슈지 · (1 episode)
0.0
2016
Takamura Kouji · (1 episode)
8.0
2014
Regular · (1 episode)
0.0
2011
Chairman
7.7
2005
Shuichiro Imanishi · (11 episodes)
4.0
2004
(6 episodes)
0.0
2003
Fujimaki Hiroaki
0.0
2003
(1 episode)
0.0
2003
(4 episodes)
0.0
2002
(6 episodes)
0.0
2002
(1 episode)
0.0
2002
Okubo
0.0
2002
Hojo Tokiyori · (49 episodes)
0.0
2001
Ishida
0.0
2000
Yokoyama · (11 episodes)
7.8
2000
(4 episodes)
0.0
1998
Detective Sako Akio
5.2
1998
Raita Onuki
7.5
1997
Zankuro Matsudaira · (8 episodes)
8.0
1995
Dr. Baian
0.0
1993
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo · (35 episodes)
0.0
1993
(1 episode)
0.0
1993
(10 episodes)
0.0
1992
(1 episode)
0.0
1992
Kojirō
8.5
1992
Fujieda Baian · (5 episodes)
10.0
1991
Ryoma Sakamoto
7.0
1991
Dr. Baian
0.0
1990
(5 episodes)
9.5
1990
(1 episode)
0.0
1989
伊達政宗 · (50 episodes)
9.2
1987
Toda
6.9
1986
Genzo Onodera · (156 episodes)
8.0
1986
Self
0.0
1986
8.2
1985
Tetsuo Nakai
5.4
1984
Samurai Master
7.0
1980