
Ken Watanabe
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 ForActing
- Born21 October 1959 (age 66)
- Place of BirthUonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Ken Watanabe

- Known ForActing
- Born21 October 1959 (age 66)
- Place of BirthUonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS

Kokuho
2025

盤上の向日葵
2025

All Lives
2024

Kensuke's Kingdom
2024

The Creator
2023

True Love: Making The Creator
2023

劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編
2020

Fukushima 50
2020

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019

Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019

An Artist of the Floating World
2019

Isle of Dogs
2018

Bel Canto
2018

The King and I
2018

7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017

The Memories of Happiness
2017

Rage
2016

The Sea of Trees
2016

Godzilla
2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014

Evolution Within Extinction
2014

Snow Jack
2014

Unforgiven
2013

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011

Inception
2010

Shanghai
2010

A School Behind Bars
2010

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009

The Unbroken
2009

Earth
2007

Letters from Iwo Jima
2006

Memories of Tomorrow
2006

Batman Begins
2005

Year One in the North
2005

Memoirs of a Geisha
2005

The Last Samurai
2003

T.R.Y.
2003

Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002

Drowning Fish
2001

Space Travelers
2000

The Whispered City
2000

Bonds
1998

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997

Hanzo, the Razor
1993

Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992

Oda Nobunaga
1992

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991

Baian the Assassin
1990

Harimao
1989

Commando Invasion
1987

The Making of "Tampopo"
1986

The Sea and Poison
1986

Tampopo
1985

Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985

MacArthur's Children
1984
