Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 21, 1959 In Koide, Niigata, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 79
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance 1980-08-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Kensuke's Kingdom 2024-02-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Kensuke's Kingdom | Kensuke | 2024-02-07 |
| Movie | 第三の時効 | 2024 | |
| Movie | The Creator | Harun | 2023-09-27 |
| Series | Tokyo Vice | Hiroto Katagiri | 2022-04-07 |
| Movie | Godzilla vs. Kong | Bar Patron (uncredited) | 2021-03-24 |
| Movie | Fukushima 50 | Masao Yoshida | 2020-03-06 |
| Movie | 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | 2020-10-31 | |
| Series | Toubousha | 2020-12-05 | |
| Movie | An Artist of the Floating World | Ono Masuji | 2019-03-30 |
| Movie | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-05-29 |
| Movie | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | 7 Guardians of the Tomb | Father | 2018-01-19 |
| Movie | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| Movie | Bel Canto | Katsumi Hosokawa | 2018-09-13 |
| Movie | The King and I | The King of Siam | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | The Memories of Happiness | Taro Miura | 2017-01-08 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Asgardian Noble | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Movie | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | Rage | Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| Movie | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Series | Back of Father | 2014-07-13 | |
| Movie | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Movie | Evolution Within Extinction | Self | 2014-09-30 |
| Movie | Unbroken | Omori officer | 2014-12-25 |
| Movie | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Movie | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Series | Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo | Regular | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-11 | |
| Movie | Inception | Saito | 2010-07-15 |
| Movie | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | Clouds Over the Hill | Unknown | 2009-11-29 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Earth | Narrator | 2007-10-10 |
| Movie | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-19 |
| Movie | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Movie | Ashes and Snow | Japanese Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-05 |
| Movie | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Batman Begins | Decoy Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Series | Vessel of Sand | 2004-01-18 | |
| Movie | Another Battle/Conspiracy | Fujimaki Hiroaki | 2003-02-15 |
| Movie | T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | 2003-01-11 |
| Movie | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Series | 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 | 2003-12-21 | |
| Movie | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Series | 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) | 2002-07-08 | |
| Series | Hojo Tokimune | Hojo Tokiyori | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| Movie | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Movie | Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa | Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Series | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | Bonds | Detective Sako Akio | 1998-06-06 |
| Movie | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki | 1997-11-08 |
| Series | Gokenin Zankuro | Zankuro Matsudaira | 1995-01-01 |
| Series | Kagi-shi | 1993-03-12 | |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin: Showdown | Dr. Baian | 1993-10-06 |
| Movie | Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 | |
| Movie | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | 1992-12-23 |
| Series | Baian the Assassin | Fujieda Baian | 1991-10-09 |
| Movie | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Ryoma Sakamoto | 1991-07-06 |
| Movie | Baian the Assassin | Dr. Baian | 1990-12-26 |
| Series | Oda Nobunaga | 1989-01-01 | |
| Movie | Karate Warrior 2 | Kimura | 1988-09-22 |
| Movie | The Last American Soldier | Father | 1988-06-05 |
| Series | Masamune Shogun | 伊達政宗 | 1987-01-04 |
| Movie | Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Karate Warrior | Maestro Kimura | 1987-09-03 |
| Movie | The Sea and Poison | Toda | 1986-10-17 |
| Movie | Double Edge | Yoshiro | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Ninja Warriors | Kuroda | 1985-06-01 |
| Movie | Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 | |
| Movie | Tampopo | Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Movie | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Movie | Ninja's Force | 1984-09-07 | |
| Movie | Invaders of the Lost Gold | Lt. Toyoda | 1982-09-20 |
| Movie | Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance | 1980-08-22 |