Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born: October 21, 1959 (age 66) · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Inception
2010
Batman Begins
2005
Godzilla
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
The Last Samurai
2003
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Isle of Dogs
2018
The Creator
2023
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Alice in Borderland
2020
Photos (8)
Movies (64)
Inception
Saito
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
The Creator
Harun
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chairman
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Tampopo
Gun
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
Shanghai
Tanaka
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
Earth
Narrator (voice)
All Lives
2024
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
The Whispered City
Ishida
The King and I
The King of Siam
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Rage
Yohei Maki
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Ashes and Snow
Japanese Narrator (voice)
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
The Sea and Poison
Toda
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
第三の時効
2003
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
Takeda Shingen
Narrator
Drowning Fish
Miyota
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
A School Behind Bars
2010
Oda Nobunaga
1992
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
Commando Invasion
1987
TV Shows (28)
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman · 1 eps
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
5 eps
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri · 18 eps
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira · 17 eps
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera · 156 eps
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗 · 50 eps
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu · 48 eps
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji · 1 eps
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎 · 9 eps
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama · 11 eps
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira · 8 eps
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura · 9 eps
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo · 35 eps
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori · 49 eps
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
東雲朔太郎 · 9 eps
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi · 11 eps
Toubousha
2 eps
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
6 eps
A Tale of Two Truncheons
13 eps
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
4 eps
Waga Machi
10 eps
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
6 eps
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지 · 1 eps
Izakaya Chōji
1 eps
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian · 5 eps
Kagi-shi
1 eps
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular · 1 eps
Musuko no Gokikan
2 eps
