Ken Watanabe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 21, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－
TV · 1 ep
Samurai Vengeance
Movie · as Kinji Shinoda
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
Movie · as Self
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
TV · as 東雲朔太郎 · 9 eps
Kokuho
Movie · as Hanjiro Hanai
The Final Piece
Movie · as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Movie
Unbound
TV · as Tamema Okitsugu · 48 eps
TRUE COLORS
TV · as Taichirou Tsujimura · 9 eps
All Lives
Movie
Kensuke's Kingdom
Movie · as Kensuke (voice)
The Creator
Movie · as Harun
True Love: Making The Creator
Movie · as Self
Tokyo Vice
TV · as Hiroto Katagiri · 18 eps
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Movie
Fukushima 50
Movie · as Masao Yoshida
Toubousha
TV · 2 eps
Alice in Borderland
TV · as Old Gentleman · 1 ep
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie · as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Movie · as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
Movie · as Ono Masuji
Isle of Dogs
Movie · as Head Surgeon (voice)
Bel Canto
Movie · as Katsumi Hosokawa
The King and I
Movie · as The King of Siam
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Movie · as Father
Segodon
TV · as Shimazu Nariakira · 17 eps
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Movie · as Restaurant Patron
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie · as Drift (voice)
The Memories of Happiness
Movie · as Taro Miura
NHK WORLD PRIME
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Rage
Movie · as Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
Movie · as Takumi Nakamura
五年目のひとり
TV · as 키자키 슈지 · 1 ep
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV · as 東雲朔太郎 · 9 eps
Godzilla
Movie · as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Movie · as Drift (voice)
Evolution Within Extinction
Movie · as Self
Snow Jack
Movie · as Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
TV · as Takamura Kouji · 1 ep
Unforgiven
Movie · as Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Movie · as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Movie
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
TV · as Regular · 1 ep
Inception
Movie · as Saito
Shanghai
Movie · as Tanaka
A School Behind Bars
Movie
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Movie · as Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
Movie · as Hajime Onchi
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
TV · 1 ep
Earth
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Movie · as Self
星ひとつの夜
Movie · as Nonoyama Hiroji
Letters from Iwo Jima
Movie · as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
Movie · as Masayuki Saeki
Batman Begins
Movie · as Ra's al Ghul
Year One in the North
Movie · as Komatsubara Hideaki
Memoirs of a Geisha
Movie · as Chairman
Ashes and Snow
Movie · as Japanese Narrator (voice)
Vessel of Sand
TV · as Shuichiro Imanishi · 11 eps
The Last Samurai
Movie · as Moritsugu Katsumoto
T.R.Y.
Movie · as Masanobu Azuma
第三の時効
Movie
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Movie · as Fujimaki Hiroaki
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
TV · 6 eps
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
TV · 1 ep
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Movie · as Okubo
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
TV · 6 eps
強行犯捜査第七係
TV · 1 ep
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
TV · 4 eps
Drowning Fish
Movie · as Miyota
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Movie
Proof of the Man 2001
Movie · as Munesue Koichiro
Hojo Tokimune
TV · as Hojo Tokiyori · 49 eps
Space Travelers
Movie · as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Whispered City
Movie · as Ishida
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
TV · as Yokoyama · 11 eps
Bonds
Movie · as Detective Sako Akio
Shimei Tehai
TV · 4 eps
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Movie · as Raita Onuki
Gokenin Zankuro
TV · as Zankuro Matsudaira · 8 eps
Hanzo, the Razor
Movie
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Movie · as Dr. Baian
Kagi-shi
TV · 1 ep
The Fire Still Burns
TV · as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo · 35 eps
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Movie · as Kojirō
Oda Nobunaga
Movie
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Movie · as Mochizuki Koheita
Izakaya Chōji
TV · 1 ep
Waga Machi
TV · 10 eps
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Movie · as Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen
Movie · as Narrator
Baian the Assassin
TV · as Fujieda Baian · 5 eps
Baian the Assassin
Movie · as Dr. Baian
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
TV · 5 eps
Musuko no Gokikan
TV · 2 eps
Oda Nobunaga
TV · 1 ep
Commando Invasion
Movie
Masamune Shogun
TV · as 伊達政宗 · 50 eps
The Making of "Tampopo"
Movie · as Self
The Sea and Poison
Movie · as Toda
Hanekonma
TV · as Genzo Onodera · 156 eps
Tampopo
Movie · as Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Movie
MacArthur's Children
Movie · as Tetsuo Nakai
A Tale of Two Truncheons
TV · 13 eps