Ken Watanabe
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.
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Alice in Borderland
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Godzilla
Inception
The Last Samurai
Full Filmography
All Credits (91)
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
as Self
Samurai Vengeance
as Kinji Shinoda
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
as 東雲朔太郎
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
as Unknown
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
All Lives
as Unknown
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
The Creator
as Harun
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
Toubousha
as Unknown
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
as Unknown
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
The King and I
as The King of Siam
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지
Rage
as Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
Snow Jack
as Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Regular
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
as Unknown
A School Behind Bars
as Unknown
Shanghai
as Tanaka
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
as Hajime Onchi
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
星ひとつの夜
as Nonoyama Hiroji
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
as Self
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki Saeki
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
Ashes and Snow
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
Year One in the North
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
as Unknown
第三の時効
as Unknown
Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
T.R.Y.
as Masanobu Azuma
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
as Unknown
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
as Unknown
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Okubo
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
as Unknown
Drowning Fish
as Miyota
Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori
The Whispered City
as Ishida
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Bonds
as Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita Onuki
Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. Baian
The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Kagi-shi
as Unknown
Hanzo, the Razor
as Unknown
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki Koheita
Waga Machi
as Unknown
Izakaya Chōji
as Unknown
Oda Nobunaga
as Unknown
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Kojirō
Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda Baian
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen
as Narrator
Baian the Assassin
as Dr. Baian
Musuko no Gokikan
as Unknown
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
as Unknown
Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
Commando Invasion
as Unknown
The Sea and Poison
as Toda
Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
The Making of "Tampopo"
as Self
Tampopo
as Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery
as Unknown
MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo Nakai
A Tale of Two Truncheons
as Unknown