Ken Watanabe
Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography 103
Movies (69)
Samurai Vengeance2026Kinji Shinoda
The Final Piece2025Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER2025
Kokuho2025Hanjiro Hanai
All Lives2024
Kensuke's Kingdom2024Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator2023Self
The Creator2023Harun
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編2020
Fukushima 502020Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters2019Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World2019Ono Masuji
The King and I2018The King of Siam
Bel Canto2018Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs2018Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb2018Father
Transformers: The Last Knight2017Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween2017Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness2017Taro Miura
Rage2016Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees2016Takumi Nakamura
Evolution Within Extinction2014Self
Snow Jack2014Reiji Kurata
Transformers: Age of Extinction2014Drift (voice)
Godzilla2014Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven2013Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home2012Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -2011
A School Behind Bars2010
Shows (34)
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho2026東雲朔太郎
Unbound2025Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS2025Taichirou Tsujimura
Tokyo Vice2022Hiroto Katagiri
Alice in Borderland2020Old Gentleman
Toubousha2020
Segodon2018Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME2017Self - Presenter
五年目のひとり2016키자키 슈지
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk2015東雲朔太郎
Back of Father2014Takamura Kouji
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo2011Regular- 刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史2009
Vessel of Sand2004Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語2003- 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)2002- 強行犯捜査第七係2002
Hojo Tokimune2001Hojo Tokiyori
Ikebukuro West Gate Park2000Yokoyama- Shimei Tehai1998
Gokenin Zankuro1995Zankuro Matsudaira
The Fire Still Burns1993Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Kagi-shi1993
Waga Machi1992
Izakaya Chōji1992
Baian the Assassin1991Fujieda Baian
Musuko no Gokikan1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen1990