Ken Watanabe
b. 1959 (age 67)
Koide, Niigata, Japan
Actor
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.
Known For
Filmography
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★ 6.6
The Final Piece
2025 Actor
Shigeyoshi Tomyo
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True Colors
2025 Actor
Tsujimura Taichiro
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★ 6.9
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 Actor
Kensuke
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★ 6.7
The Creator
2023 Actor
Harun
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★ 7.5
Shikakenin Fujieda Baian
2023 Actor
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★ 8.1
Tokyo Vice
2022 Actor
Hiroto Katagiri
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★ 6.1
Fukushima 50
2020 Actor
Masao Yoshida
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The Fugitive
2020 Actor
Kazuki Kakurai
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★ 6.0
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 Actor
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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★ 6.5
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
2019 Actor
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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★ 5.5
Bel Canto
2018 Actor
Hosokawa
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★ 8.0
The King and I
2018 Actor
The King of Siam
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★ 5.2
The Memories of Happiness
2017 Actor
Taro Miura
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89th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement
2017 Self
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★ 7.0
Rage
2016 Actor
Yohei Maki
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★ 3.6
Gonenme no hitori
2016 Actor
Kizaki Shuji
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★ 6.1
The Sea of Trees
2015 Actor
Takumi Nakamura
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★ 6.4
Godzilla
2014 Actor
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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★ 4.4
Silver Jack
2014 Actor
Reiji kurata
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★ 5.7
Fathers
2014 Actor
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The 37th Annual Japan Academy Awards
2014 Self
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★ 7.0
Unforgiven
2013 Actor
Jubee kamata
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★ 5.3
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012 Actor
Shunichiro Yamaguchi
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★ 4.6
Makete, katsu: Sengo wo tsukutta otoko Yoshida Shigeru
2012 Actor
Shigeru Yoshida
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★ 6.9
Unite for Japan
2011 Self
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★ 6.3
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011 Actor
Hirayama
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Sawako no asa
2011 Self
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The 34th Annual Japan Academy Awards
2011 Self
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★ 8.8
Inception
2010 Actor
Saito
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★ 6.3
Shanghai
2010 Actor
Tanaka
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★ 5.8
Tômawari no ame
2010 Actor
Sohei Fukumoto
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★ 7.7
Clouds Over the Hill
2009 Actor
Narrator
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★ 6.6
The Unbroken
2009 Actor
Hajime Onchi
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★ 5.0
Keiji ichidai: Hiratsuka Hachibei no Shôwa jiken shi
2009 Actor
Hachibei Hiratsuka
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★ 7.9
Earth
2007 Actor
Narrator
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★ 7.3
Hoshi hitotsu no yoru
2007 Actor
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100 Nen Interview
2007 Self
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★ 7.8
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 Actor
General Kuribayashi
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★ 7.4
Memories of Tomorrow
2006 Actor
Masayuki Saeki
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★ 8.2
Batman Begins
2005 Actor
Ra's Al Ghul
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★ 7.3
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 Actor
Chairman
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★ 8.0
Ashes and Snow
2005 Actor
Japanese Narrator
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★ 6.7
Year One in the North
2005 Actor
Hideaki Komatsubara
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★ 7.0
On the Set: Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 Self
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Tetsuko no heya 30nen special
2005 Actor
Guest
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Sekai ga moshi hyaku nin no mura dattara 3
2005 Self
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★ 7.5
Suna no utsuwa
2004 Actor
Syuichiro Imanishi
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★ 7.8
The Last Samurai
2003 Actor
Katsumoto
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★ 5.3
T.R.Y.
2003 Actor
Masanobu Azuma
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Joshi keimusho higashi 3 gô tô 4
2003 Actor
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Itan no natsu
2003 Actor
Tatsumi
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★ 6.8
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002 Actor
Okubo
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★ 6.6
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2002 Actor
Fujimaki Hiroaki
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Tô-san no natsumatsuri
2002 Actor
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Chinmoku no aribai
2002 Actor
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Mibu gishi den: Shinsengumi de ichiban tsuyokatta otoko
2002 Actor
Kanichiro Yoshimura
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★ 3.2
Ningen no shômei 2001
2001 Actor
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Kochira Daisanshiyakaibu
2001 Actor
Jiro Shimizu
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★ 7.9
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000 Actor
Yokoyama
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Hatsuru sokonaki
2000 Actor
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★ 6.4
Kizuna
1998 Actor
Detective Sako Akio
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Sushi kuinê 3: Nigire!! Tôkyô natsu no aji
1996 Actor
Shûzô
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★ 7.7
Gokenin Zankurô
1995 Actor
Zankurô Matsudaira
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★ 5.8
Hanzo, the Razor
1994 Actor
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Homura tatsu
1993 Actor
Yasuhira Fujiwara
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★ 6.9
Oda Nobunaga
1992 Actor
Oda Nobunaga
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★ 5.3
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992 Actor
Kojiro Sasaki
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Kimitachi ga ite boku ga iru
1992 Actor
Senjûrô Fujiwara
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Izakaya Chôji
1992 Actor
Denkichi 'Chôji' Fujino
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Kimitachi ga ite boku ga iru II
1992 Actor
Senjûrô Fujiwara
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★ 5.3
Bakumatsu jyunjyoden
1991 Actor
Ryouma Sakamoto
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★ 7.5
Baian the Assassin
1990 Actor
Fujieda Baian
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★ 6.5
Shikakenin Fujieda Baian
1990 Actor
Baian Fujieda
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★ 7.8
Dokugan-ryu Masamune
1987 Actor
Date Masamune
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★ 4.9
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1987 Actor
Mochizuki Koheita
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★ 7.4
The Sea and Poison
1986 Actor
Toda
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★ 7.9
Tampopo
1985 Actor
Gun
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★ 5.3
The Matchmaking Service Mystery
1985 Actor
Masakazu Sekine
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★ 4.2
Mibu no koiuta
1983 Actor
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Michinaru hanran
1983 Actor
Takashi Takahata