People
Ken Watanabe
- Name: Ken Watanabe
- Birthday: 1959-10-21
- Also known as: 渡邊謙,渡辺 謙
- Place of birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan
- Popularity: 17.261
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.
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| All Lives | 2024-05-06 |
| Kensuke's Kingdom as Kensuke (voice) | 2024-02-07 |
| True Love: Making The Creator as Self | 2023-11-14 |
| The Creator as Harun | 2023-09-27 |
| 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | 2020-10-31 |
| Fukushima 50 as Masao Yoshida | 2020-03-06 |
| Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-05-29 |
| Pokémon Detective Pikachu as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | 2019-05-03 |
| An Artist of the Floating World as Ono Masuji | 2019-03-30 |
| The King and I as The King of Siam | 2018-11-29 |
| Bel Canto as Katsumi Hosokawa | 2018-09-13 |
| Isle of Dogs as Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| 7 Guardians of the Tomb as Father | 2018-01-19 |
| Transformers: The Last Knight as Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween as Restaurant Patron | 2017-01-28 |
| The Memories of Happiness as Taro Miura | 2017-01-08 |
| Rage as Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| The Sea of Trees as Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Evolution Within Extinction as Self | 2014-09-30 |
| Snow Jack as Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction as Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Godzilla as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Unforgiven as Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home as Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - | 2011-01-01 |
| A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-11 |
| Inception as Saito | 2010-07-15 |
| Shanghai as Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| The Unbroken as Hajime Onchi | 2009-10-23 |
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant as Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Earth as Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-10 |
| Letters from Iwo Jima as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-09 |
| Memories of Tomorrow as Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha as Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Batman Begins as Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Year One in the North as Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| The Last Samurai as Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Another Battle/Conspiracy as Fujimaki Hiroaki | 2003-02-15 |
| T.R.Y. as Masanobu Azuma | 2003-01-11 |
| Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS as Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Drowning Fish as Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| The Whispered City as Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Space Travelers as Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Bonds as Detective Sako Akio | 1998-06-06 |
| Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald as Raita Onuki | 1997-11-08 |
| Baian the Assassin: Showdown as Dr. Baian | 1993-10-06 |
| Hanzo, the Razor | 1993-01-01 |
| Chronicle of the Town Magistrate as Mochizuki Koheita | 1992-12-23 |
| Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 |
| Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi as Kojirō | 1992-01-01 |
| A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era as Ryoma Sakamoto | 1991-07-06 |
| Baian the Assassin as Dr. Baian | 1990-12-26 |
| Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 |
| The Sea and Poison as Toda | 1986-10-17 |
| The Making of "Tampopo" as Self | 1986-01-01 |
| Tampopo as Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 |
| MacArthur's Children as Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance as Samurai Master | 1980-08-22 |
