Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Known For
Filmography
| Movie | 第三の時効 | 2025 | |
| Movie | Kensuke's Kingdom | Kensuke (voice) | 2024-02-07 |
| Movie | All Lives | 2024-05-06 | |
| Movie | The Creator | Harun | 2023-09-27 |
| Series | Tokyo Vice | Hiroto Katagiri | 2022-04-07 |
| Movie | Godzilla vs. Kong | Bar Patron | 2021-03-24 |
| Series | Toubousha | 2020-12-05 | |
| Movie | Fukushima 50 | Masao Yoshida | 2020-03-06 |
| Movie | 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | 2020-10-31 | |
| Movie | An Artist of the Floating World | Ono Masuji | 2019-03-30 |
| Movie | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-05-29 |
| Movie | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | 7 Guardians of the Tomb | Father | 2018-01-19 |
| Movie | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| Movie | The King and I | The King of Siam | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Bel Canto | Katsumi Hosokawa | 2018-09-13 |
| Movie | The Memories of Happiness | Taro Miura | 2017-01-08 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Asgardian Noble | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween | Restaurant Patron | 2017-01-28 |
| Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Movie | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Series | 五年目のひとり | 키자키 슈지 | 2016-11-19 |
| Movie | Rage | Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| Movie | Evolution Within Extinction | Self | 2014-09-30 |
| Movie | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Movie | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Series | Back of Father | 2014-07-13 | |
| Movie | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Movie | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Series | Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo | Regular | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-11 | |
| Movie | Inception | Saito | 2010-07-15 |
| Series | Clouds Over the Hill | Unknown | 2009-11-29 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-10 |
| Movie | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-09 |
| Movie | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Movie | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Series | Vessel of Sand | Shuichiro Imanishi | 2004-01-18 |
| Movie | Another Battle/Conspiracy | Fujimaki Hiroaki | 2003-02-15 |
| Movie | T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | 2003-01-11 |
| Movie | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Series | 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 | 2003-12-21 | |
| Series | Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko | 2002-12-28 | |
| Movie | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Movie | Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| Series | Hojo Tokimune | Hojo Tokiyori | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Movie | The Whispered City | Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Series | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | Bonds | Detective Sako Akio | 1998-06-06 |
| Movie | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki | 1997-11-08 |
| Series | Gokenin Zankuro | Zankuro Matsudaira | 1995-01-09 |
| Movie | Hanzo, the Razor | 1993-01-01 | |
| Series | Kagi-shi | 1993-03-12 | |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin: Showdown | Dr. Baian | 1993-10-06 |
| Movie | Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 | |
| Movie | Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi | Kojirō | 1992-01-01 |
| Series | Izakaya Chōji | 1992-07-10 | |
| Movie | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | 1992-12-23 |
| Series | Waga Machi | 1992-10-13 | |
| Series | Baian the Assassin | Fujieda Baian | 1991-10-09 |
| Movie | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Ryoma Sakamoto | 1991-07-06 |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin | Dr. Baian | 1990-12-26 |
| Series | Oda Nobunaga | 1989-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Last American Soldier | Father | 1988-06-05 |
| Movie | Karate Warrior 2 | Kimura | 1988-09-22 |
| Movie | Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 | |
| Series | Masamune Shogun | 伊達政宗 | 1987-01-04 |
| Movie | Karate Warrior | Maestro Kimura | 1987-09-03 |
| Movie | The Sea and Poison | Toda | 1986-10-17 |
| Movie | The Making of "Tampopo" | Self | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Double Edge | Yoshiro | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Tampopo | Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Movie | Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 | |
| Movie | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Movie | Ninja's Force | 1984-09-07 | |
| Movie | Invaders of the Lost Gold | Lt. Toyoda | 1982-09-20 |
| Movie | Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance | Samurai Master | 1980-08-22 |