Birthday: Oct 21, 1959
Place of Birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan

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.

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
Batman Begins	Ra's al Ghul	2005
Letters from Iwo Jima	General Tadamichi Kuribayashi	2006
The Last Samurai	Moritsugu Katsumoto	2003
Tampopo	Gun	1985
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Mr. Tall	2009
Inception	Saito	2010
Shanghai	Tanaka	2010
T.R.Y.	Masanobu Azuma	2003
Space Travelers	Sakamaki ("Crusher")	2000
第三の時効		1970
The Creator	Harun	2023
Unforgiven	Jubee Kamata	2013
Godzilla	Dr. Ishiro Serizawa	2014
Memories of Tomorrow	Masayuki Saeki	2006
The Making of "Tampopo"	Self	1986
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編		2020
The Unbroken	Hajime Onchi	2009
A School Behind Bars		2010
Year One in the North	Komatsubara Hideaki	2005
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home	Junichiro Kawaguchi	2012
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS	Okubo	2002
Earth	Narrator (voice)	2007
Transformers: Age of Extinction	Drift (voice)	2014
True Love: Making The Creator	Self	2023
The Whispered City	Ishida	2000
Drowning Fish	Miyota	2001
The Sea and Poison	Toda	1986
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween	Restaurant Patron	2017
MacArthur's Children	Tetsuo Nakai	1984
Evolution Within Extinction	Self	2014
Hanzo, the Razor		1993
All Lives		2024
Transformers: The Last Knight	Drift (voice)	2017
Snow Jack	Reiji Kurata	2014
Rage	Yohei Maki	2016
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi	Kojirō	1992
Kekkon Annai Mystery		1985
The Sea of Trees	Takumi Nakamura	2016
Commando Invasion		1987
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -		2011
Oda Nobunaga		1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate	Mochizuki Koheita	1992
Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Dr. Ishiro Serizawa	2019
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance	Samurai Master	1980
Pokémon Detective Pikachu	Lieutenant Hide Yoshida	2019
Isle of Dogs	Head Surgeon (voice)	2018
Bel Canto	Katsumi Hosokawa	2018
Fukushima 50	Masao Yoshida	2020
The Memories of Happiness	Taro Miura	2017
The King and I	The King of Siam	2018
Kensuke's Kingdom	Kensuke (voice)	2024
Bonds	Detective Sako Akio	1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald	Raita Onuki	1997
Baian the Assassin	Dr. Baian	1990
Baian the Assassin: Showdown	Dr. Baian	1993
Memoirs of a Geisha	Chairman	2005
7 Guardians of the Tomb	Father	2018
Another Battle/Conspiracy	Fujimaki Hiroaki	2003
An Artist of the Floating World	Ono Masuji	2019
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era	Ryoma Sakamoto	1991
Series	Cast	Year
Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Yokoyama	2000
Kagi-shi		1993
Oda Nobunaga		1989
Vessel of Sand	Shuichiro Imanishi	2004
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen		1990
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語		2003
NHK WORLD PRIME	Self - Presenter	2017
横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)		2002
Masamune Shogun	伊達政宗	1987
Segodon	Shimazu Nariakira	2018
強行犯捜査第七係		2002
Izakaya Chōji		1992
Gokenin Zankuro	Zankuro Matsudaira	1995
Waga Machi		1992
Tokyo Vice	Hiroto Katagiri	2022
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko		2002
Baian the Assassin	Fujieda Baian	1991
五年目のひとり	키자키 슈지	2016
Shimei Tehai		1998
Back of Father	Takamura Kouji	2014
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」		2003
Hanekonma	Genzo Onodera	1986
Hojo Tokimune	Hojo Tokiyori	2001
The Fire Still Burns	Fujiwara Tsunekiyo	1993
Toubousha		2020
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo	Regular	2011

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