Ken Watanabe
Actor · ProducerKen 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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Samurai Vengeance
2026
Kinji Shinoda
Kokuho
2025
Hanjiro Hanai
The Final Piece
2025
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
Kensuke (voice)
The Creator
2023
Harun
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
Self
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2020
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
Ono Masuji
Isle of Dogs
2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
Bel Canto
2018
Katsumi Hosokawa
The King and I
2018
The King of Siam
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
Father
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
Restaurant Patron
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Drift (voice)
The Memories of Happiness
2017
Taro Miura
Rage
2016
Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
2016
Takumi Nakamura
Godzilla
2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Drift (voice)
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Self
Snow Jack
2014
Reiji Kurata
Unforgiven
2013
Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
Inception
2010
Saito
Shanghai
2010
Tanaka
A School Behind Bars
2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
2009
Hajime Onchi
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
2008
Earth
2007
Narrator (voice)
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
Self
星ひとつの夜
2007
Nonoyama Hiroji
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
Masayuki Saeki
Batman Begins
2005
Ra's al Ghul
Year One in the North
2005
Komatsubara Hideaki
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Le président
Ashes and Snow
2005
Japanese Narrator (voice)
The Last Samurai
2003
Moritsugu Katsumoto
T.R.Y.
2003
Masanobu Azuma
第三の時効
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
Fujimaki Hiroaki
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
Okubo
Drowning Fish
2001
Miyota
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
Space Travelers
2000
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Whispered City
2000
Ishida
Bonds
1998
Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
Raita Onuki
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
Dr. Baian
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
Kojirō
Oda Nobunaga
1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
Mochizuki Koheita
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen
1991
Narrator
Baian the Assassin
1990
Dr. Baian
Commando Invasion
1987
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
Self
The Sea and Poison
1986
Toda
Tampopo
1985
Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
MacArthur's Children
1984
Tetsuo Nakai
