Ken Watanabe
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.
102 acting credits
Acting · 102
Alice in Borderland
2020
Inception
2010
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
Tokyo Vice
2022
Batman Begins
2005
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Segodon
2018
The Creator
2023
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Back of Father
2014
Godzilla
2014
The Last Samurai
2003
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
Isle of Dogs
2018
Masamune Shogun
1987
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Hanekonma
1986
Unbound
2025
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
TRUE COLORS
2025
The Fire Still Burns
1993
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
Shanghai
2010
Vessel of Sand
2004
Waga Machi
1992
Tampopo
1985
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984
Kokuho
2025
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
Hojo Tokimune
2001
Toubousha
2020
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
The Sea of Trees
2016
Oda Nobunaga
1989
Izakaya Chōji
1992
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Rage
2016
The Final Piece
2025
Baian the Assassin
1991
五年目のひとり
2016
Fukushima 50
2020
Musuko no Gokikan
1990
Shimei Tehai
1998
Unforgiven
2013
Space Travelers
2000
Earth
2007
Kagi-shi
1993
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
The Unbroken
2009
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
The Sea and Poison
1986
Bel Canto
2018
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
The Whispered City
2000
Year One in the North
2005
Drowning Fish
2001
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
T.R.Y.
2003
Bonds
1998
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
Takeda Shingen
1991
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
第三の時効
2003
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
The King and I
2018
MacArthur's Children
1984
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
The Memories of Happiness
2017
All Lives
2024
Snow Jack
2014
Baian the Assassin
1990
強行犯捜査第七係
2002
Samurai Vengeance
2026
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
Oda Nobunaga
1992
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
A School Behind Bars
2010
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
Commando Invasion
1987
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
Ashes and Snow
2005
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
星ひとつの夜
2007
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025