Ken Watanabe

🎭 Actor

Ken Watanabe

🎂 Born 21 October 1959 (age 66)📍 Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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Acting Credits

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

Inception

Batman Begins

The Creator

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Full Filmography(69 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

2010InceptionSaito★ 8.4 2005Batman BeginsRa's al Ghul★ 7.7 2023The CreatorHarun★ 7.0 2019Godzilla: King of the MonstersDr. Ishiro Serizawa★ 6.7 2014Transformers: Age of ExtinctionDrift (voice)★ 6.0 2014GodzillaDr. Ishiro Serizawa★ 6.4 2003The Last SamuraiMoritsugu Katsumoto★ 7.6 2017Transformers: The Last KnightDrift (voice)★ 6.1 2019Pokémon Detective PikachuLieutenant Hide Yoshida★ 6.9 2018Isle of DogsHead Surgeon (voice)★ 7.8 2005Memoirs of a GeishaLe président★ 7.6 2025KokuhoHanjiro Hanai★ 8.0 2006Letters from Iwo JimaGeneral Tadamichi Kuribayashi★ 7.5 2009Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantMr. Tall★ 5.9 1985TampopoGun★ 7.8 2020Fukushima 50Masao Yoshida★ 6.5 2007EarthNarrator (voice)★ 7.6 2016The Sea of TreesTakumi Nakamura★ 6.2 2024Kensuke's KingdomKensuke (voice)★ 7.2 20187 Guardians of the TombFather★ 5.3 2010ShanghaiTanaka★ 6.1 2018Bel CantoKatsumi Hosokawa★ 5.5 1997Welcome Back, Mr. McDonaldRaita Onuki★ 7.7 2016RageYohei Maki★ 6.8 2003T.R.Y.Masanobu Azuma★ 7.2 2024All Lives—★ 6.7 2013UnforgivenJubee Kamata★ 7.0 2019An Artist of the Floating WorldOno Masuji—1986The Sea and PoisonToda★ 7.1 2005Year One in the NorthKomatsubara Hideaki★ 5.7 2009The UnbrokenHajime Onchi★ 6.7 2012Hayabusa: The Long Voyage HomeJunichiro Kawaguchi★ 6.4 1998BondsDetective Sako Akio★ 5.6 2001Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji—★ 5.9 2006Memories of TomorrowMasayuki Saeki★ 6.1 1984MacArthur's ChildrenTetsuo Nakai★ 5.5 1991Takeda ShingenNarrator★ 10.0 2001Drowning FishMiyota★ 7.7 2000Space TravelersSakamaki ("Crusher")★ 6.1 2014Snow JackReiji Kurata—2026Samurai VengeanceKinji Shinoda★ 8.8 2025The Final PieceShigeyoshi Toumyo★ 9.4 2002Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHSOkubo★ 8.0 2014Evolution Within ExtinctionSelf★ 7.7 2018The King and IThe King of Siam★ 7.0 1991A Naive History of the Bakumatsu EraRyoma Sakamoto★ 7.5 2000The Whispered CityIshida★ 9.0 1993Baian the Assassin: ShowdownDr. Baian—1985Kekkon Annai Mystery—★ 8.8 2003Another Battle/ConspiracyFujimaki Hiroaki—2005Ashes and SnowJapanese Narrator (voice)★ 7.2 2023True Love: Making The CreatorSelf★ 8.0 1992Ganryujima: Kojiro and MusashiKojirō★ 8.5 1993Hanzo, the Razor——1992Oda Nobunaga—★ 8.0 2010A School Behind Bars—★ 10.0 1986The Making of "Tampopo"Self—2007Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'Self—1990Baian the AssassinDr. Baian—2003第三の時効——1987Commando Invasion—★ 6.8 2017The Memories of HappinessTaro Miura—1992Chronicle of the Town MagistrateMochizuki Koheita—2017Dirty, Clean, & InbetweenRestaurant Patron—2020劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編—★ 7.0 2008ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES——2011Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -——2007星ひとつの夜Nonoyama Hiroji—2025LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER——

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