Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 21, 1959
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Credits
104 titles
Ken Watanabe
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
Filmography
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
東雲朔太郎
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
The Creator
Harun
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
Toubousha
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
The King and I
The King of Siam
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지
Rage
Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
A School Behind Bars
Inception
Saito
Shanghai
Tanaka
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
Earth
Narrator (voice)
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji