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Ken Watanabe


Ken Watanabe

Birthday:

10/21/1959

Place of birth:

Uonuma, Niigata, Japan:

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

木挽町のあだ討ち (2026)
as Kinji Shinoda
盤上の向日葵 (2025)
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER (2025)
as
国宝 (2025)
as Hanjiro Hanai
生きとし生けるもの (2024)
as
Kensuke's Kingdom (2024)
as Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator (2023)
as Self
The Creator (2023)
as Harun
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 (2020)
as
Fukushima 50 (2020)
as Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
浮世の画家 (2019)
as Ono Masuji
The King and I (2018)
as The King of Siam
Bel Canto (2018)
as Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs (2018)
as Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
as Father
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween (2017)
as Restaurant Patron
しあわせの記憶 (2017)
as Taro Miura
怒り (2016)
as Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees (2016)
as Takumi Nakamura
Evolution Within Extinction (2014)
as Self
白銀ジャック (2014)
as Reiji Kurata
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
as Drift (voice)
Godzilla (2014)
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
許されざる者 (2013)
as Jubee Kamata
はやぶさ 遥かなる帰還 (2012)
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - (2011)
as
塀の中の中学校 (2010)
as
Inception (2010)
as Saito
Shanghai (2010)
as Tanaka
沈まぬ太陽 (2009)
as Hajime Onchi
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
as Mr. Tall
Earth (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
星ひとつの夜 (2007)
as Nonoyama Hiroji
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' (2007)
as Self
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
明日の記憶 (2006)
as Masayuki Saeki
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
as Le président
Batman Begins (2005)
as Ra's al Ghul
Ashes and Snow (2005)
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
北の零年 (2005)
as Komatsubara Hideaki
The Last Samurai (2003)
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
第三の時効 (2003)
as
新・仁義なき戦い／謀殺 (2003)
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
T.R.Y. (2003)
as Masanobu Azuma
陽はまた昇る (2002)
as Okubo
千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語 (2001)
as
溺れる魚 (2001)
as Miyota
ざわざわ下北沢 (2000)
as Ishida
スペーストラベラーズ (2000)
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
絆 (1998)
as Detective Sako Akio
ラヂオの時間 (1997)
as Raita Onuki
仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決 (1993)
as Dr. Baian
御用牙 (1993)
as
町奉行日記 (1992)
as Mochizuki Koheita
織田信長 (1992)
as
巌流島 小次郎と武蔵 (1992)
as Kojirō
幕末純情伝 (1991)
as Ryoma Sakamoto
武田信玄 (1991)
as Narrator
仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル (1990)
as Dr. Baian
Commando Invasion (1987)
as
海と毒薬 (1986)
as Toda
伊丹十三の「タンポポ」撮影日記 (1986)
as Self
タンポポ (1985)
as Gun
結婚案内ミステリー (1985)
as
瀬戸内少年野球団 (1984)
as Tetsuo Nakai
はやぶさ 遥かなる帰還 (2012)
Production Manager
明日の記憶 (2006)
Executive Producer
ハリマオ (1989)
Producer