Ken Watanabe
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 i...
Known For
Filmography
Samurai Vengeance
2026
as Kinji Shinoda
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
as 東雲朔太郎
Kokuho
2025
as Hanjiro Hanai
The Final Piece
2025
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Unbound
2025
as Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
2025
as Taichirou Tsujimura
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
The Creator
2023
as Harun
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
as Self
Tokyo Vice
2022
as Hiroto Katagiri
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2020
as Masao Yoshida
Toubousha
2020
Alice in Borderland
2020
as Old Gentleman
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
as Ono Masuji
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Bel Canto
2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa
The King and I
2018
as The King of Siam
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
as Father
Segodon
2018
as Shimazu Nariakira
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
as Restaurant Patron
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Drift (voice)
The Memories of Happiness
2017
as Taro Miura
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
as Self - Presenter
Rage
2016
as Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
2016
as Takumi Nakamura
五年目のひとり
2016
as 키자키 슈지
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
as 東雲朔太郎
Godzilla
2014
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Drift (voice)
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
as Self
Snow Jack
2014
as Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
2014
as Takamura Kouji
Unforgiven
2013
as Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
as Regular
Inception
2010
as Saito
Shanghai
2010
as Tanaka
A School Behind Bars
2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
as Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
2009
as Hajime Onchi
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
Earth
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
as Self
星ひとつの夜
2007
as Nonoyama Hiroji
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
as Masayuki Saeki
Batman Begins
2005
as Ra's al Ghul
Year One in the North
2005
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Chairman
Ashes and Snow
2005
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
Vessel of Sand
2004
as Shuichiro Imanishi
The Last Samurai
2003
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
T.R.Y.
2003
as Masanobu Azuma
第三の時効
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
as Okubo
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
強行犯捜査第七係
2002
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Drowning Fish
2001
as Miyota
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
Proof of the Man 2001
2001
as Munesue Koichiro
Hojo Tokimune
2001
as Hojo Tokiyori
Space Travelers
2000
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Whispered City
2000
as Ishida
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
as Yokoyama
Bonds
1998
as Detective Sako Akio
Shimei Tehai
1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
as Raita Onuki
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
as Zankuro Matsudaira
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
as Dr. Baian
Kagi-shi
1993
The Fire Still Burns
1993
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
as Kojirō
Oda Nobunaga
1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
as Mochizuki Koheita
Izakaya Chōji
1992
Waga Machi
1992
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
as Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen
1991
as Narrator
Baian the Assassin
1991
as Fujieda Baian
Baian the Assassin
1990
as Dr. Baian
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
Musuko no Gokikan
1990
Oda Nobunaga
1989
Commando Invasion
1987
Masamune Shogun
1987
as 伊達政宗
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
as Self
The Sea and Poison
1986
as Toda
Hanekonma
1986
as Genzo Onodera
Tampopo
1985
as Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
MacArthur's Children
1984
as Tetsuo Nakai
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984