Ken Watanabeborn 1959

usually

Actor

Popularity

3.4

Famous

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.

Credits

Batman Begins
Batman Begins

2005

Action • Crime • Drama

7.7
13.7
Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Action • Drama • War

7.5
3.3
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai

2003

Action • Drama • War

7.6
8.3
Tampopo
Tampopo

1985

Comedy

7.9
2
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009

Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Thriller

5.8
2.8
Inception
Inception

2010

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

8.4
25.8
Shanghai
Shanghai

2010

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

6.1
1.3
T.R.Y.
T.R.Y.

2003

Action • Comedy

7
0.2
Space Travelers
Space Travelers

2000

Action • Comedy • Crime • Fantasy

5.9
0.5
The Creator
The Creator

2023

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

7.1
17.6
Unforgiven
Unforgiven

2013

Action • Crime • Drama • Western

7
0.8
Godzilla
Godzilla

2014

Action • Drama • Science Fiction

6.3
9.3
Memories of Tomorrow
6
0.3
The Making of "Tampopo"
0
0.2
The Unbroken
The Unbroken

2009

Drama

6.7
0.4
A School Behind Bars
10
0.2
Year One in the North
Year One in the North

2005

Drama • History

4.9
0.4
Earth
Earth

2007

Documentary

7.6
1.1
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction

2014

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

5.9
11.1
True Love: Making The Creator
8
0.2
The Whispered City
9
0.4
Drowning Fish
Drowning Fish

2001

Action • Drama

7
0.5
The Sea and Poison
The Sea and Poison

1986

Drama • War

6.9
0.4
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
0
0.2
MacArthur's Children
MacArthur's Children

1984

Comedy • Drama • War

5.5
0.3
Evolution Within Extinction
7.7
0.9
Hanzo, the Razor
Hanzo, the Razor

1993

Action • Drama

0
0.2
All Lives
All Lives

2024

Drama

6.7
0.5
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: The Last Knight

2017

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

6.1
9.5
Snow Jack
0
0.2
Rage
Rage

2016

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

6.9
0.6
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

1992

Action • Drama • TV Movie

8.5
0.3
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Kekkon Annai Mystery

1985

Comedy • Mystery

8.2
0.1
The Sea of Trees
6.2
1.1
Commando Invasion
6.2
0.1
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga

1992

Action • History

8
0.2
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019

Action • Science Fiction

6.7
8.7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Pokémon Detective Pikachu

2019

Action • Adventure • Fantasy

6.9
5.9
Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs

2018

Adventure • Animation • Comedy

7.9
4.5
Bel Canto
Bel Canto

2018

Drama • Music • Romance • Thriller

5.4
1.2
Fukushima 50
Fukushima 50

2020

Action • Drama • History

6.5
1
The Memories of Happiness
The Memories of Happiness

2017

Drama • TV Movie

0
0.3
The King and I
The King and I

2018

Drama • Music

7
0.4
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke's Kingdom

2024

Adventure • Animation • Drama • Family

6.8
1
Bonds
Bonds

1998

Crime • Drama

5.2
0.2
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
7.6
0.7
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

Drama • History • Romance

7.7
4.1
7 Guardians of the Tomb
7 Guardians of the Tomb

2018

Action • Adventure • Horror

5.4
2.1
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
7
0.2
Kokuho
Kokuho

2025

Drama • History

0
0.6
盤上の向日葵
盤上の向日葵

2025

Drama • Mystery

0
0.4
Godzilla Sea of Monsters
Godzilla Sea of Monsters

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

0
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