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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Actor · Born 1959-10-21 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Inception (2010) — Saito
  2. Batman Begins (2005) — Ra's al Ghul
  3. Godzilla (2014) — Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
  4. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) — Drift (voice)
  5. The Last Samurai (2003) — Moritsugu Katsumoto
  6. Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) — Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
  7. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) — Drift (voice)
  8. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) — Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
  9. Isle of Dogs (2018) — Head Surgeon (voice)
  10. The Creator (2023) — Harun
  11. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) — Le président
  12. Alice in Borderland (2020) — Old Gentleman
  13. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) — General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  14. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) — Mr. Tall
  15. The Sea of Trees (2016) — Takumi Nakamura
  16. Tampopo (1985) — Gun
  17. Tokyo Vice (2022) — Hiroto Katagiri
  18. Earth (2007) — Narrator (voice)
  19. 7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018) — Father
  20. Shanghai (2010) — Tanaka
  21. Fukushima 50 (2020) — Masao Yoshida
  22. Bel Canto (2018) — Katsumi Hosokawa
  23. Kokuho (2025) — Hanjiro Hanai
  24. Unforgiven (2013) — Jubee Kamata
  25. Rage (2016) — Yohei Maki
  26. Ashes and Snow (2005) — Japanese Narrator (voice)
  27. Kensuke's Kingdom (2024) — Kensuke (voice)
  28. Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) — Raita Onuki
  29. Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000) — Yokoyama
  30. Memories of Tomorrow (2006) — Masayuki Saeki
  31. The Sea and Poison (1986) — Toda
  32. Space Travelers (2000) — Sakamaki ("Crusher")
  33. The Unbroken (2009) — Hajime Onchi
  34. Year One in the North (2005) — Komatsubara Hideaki
  35. MacArthur's Children (1984) — Tetsuo Nakai
  36. The King and I (2018) — The King of Siam
  37. Unbound (2025) — Tamema Okitsugu
  38. Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji (2001)
  39. Bonds (1998) — Detective Sako Akio
  40. Masamune Shogun (1987) — 伊達政宗