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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

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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
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Kokuho
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2025
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盤上の向日葵
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2025
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All Lives
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6.7
2024
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Kensuke's Kingdom
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6.75
2024
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The Creator
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7.1
2023
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True Love: Making The Creator
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8.0
2023
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劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編
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7.0
2020
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Fukushima 50
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6.48
2020
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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6.695
2019
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
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6.9
2019
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An Artist of the Floating World
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2019
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Isle of Dogs
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7.85
2018
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Bel Canto
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5.413
2018
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The King and I
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7.0
2018
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
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5.401
2018
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
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2017
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Transformers: The Last Knight
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6.056
2017
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The Memories of Happiness
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2017
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Rage
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6.858
2016
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The Sea of Trees
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6.2
2016
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Godzilla
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6.345
2014
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
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5.9
2014
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Evolution Within Extinction
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7.667
2014
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Snow Jack
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2014
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Unforgiven
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7.0
2013
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
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6.0
2012
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Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
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2011
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Inception
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8.369
2010
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Shanghai
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6.094
2010
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A School Behind Bars
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10.0
2010
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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5.841
2009
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The Unbroken
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6.7
2009
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Earth
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7.615
2007
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Letters from Iwo Jima
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7.474
2006
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Memories of Tomorrow
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6.0
2006
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Batman Begins
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7.713
2005
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Year One in the North
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4.9
2005
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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7.7
2005
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The Last Samurai
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7.592
2003
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T.R.Y.
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7.0
2003
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
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2003
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
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7.0
2002
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Drowning Fish
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7.0
2001
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Space Travelers
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5.9
2000
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The Whispered City
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9.0
2000
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Bonds
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5.2
1998
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
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7.6
1997
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Hanzo, the Razor
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1993
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
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1993
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
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8.5
1992
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Oda Nobunaga
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8.0
1992
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
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1992
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
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7.0
1991
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Baian the Assassin
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1990
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Harimao
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8.0
1989
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Commando Invasion
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6.2
1987
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The Making of "Tampopo"
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1986
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The Sea and Poison
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6.9
1986
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Tampopo
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7.853
1985
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
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8.2
1985
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MacArthur's Children
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5.5
1984
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Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
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7.0
1980