Acting
Community Rating
7.0
TMDB estimate
Born
October 21, 1959 (age 66)
Born in
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
2026
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
2025
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
2024
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
2023
The Creator
Harun
2023
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
2019
The King and I
The King of Siam
2018
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
2018
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
2017
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
2017
