Ken Watanabe
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-10-21
Place of birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Images
Cast
Batman Begins
2005
7.72
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
7.50
The Last Samurai
2003
7.60
Tampopo
1985
7.81
Inception
2010
8.37
Shanghai
2010
6.10
T.R.Y.
2003
7.00
Space Travelers
2000
5.90
第三の時効
2003
0.00
The Creator
2023
7.02
Unforgiven
2013
7.00
Godzilla
2014
6.35
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
6.00
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
0.00
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
7.00
The Unbroken
2009
6.70
A School Behind Bars
2010
10.00
Year One in the North
2005
4.90
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
6.00
Earth
2007
7.63
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
5.96
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
8.00
The Whispered City
2000
9.00
Drowning Fish
2001
7.00
The Sea and Poison
1986
6.90
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
0.00
MacArthur's Children
1984
5.00
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
7.70
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
0.00
All Lives
2024
6.70
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
6.05
Snow Jack
2014
0.00
Rage
2016
6.78
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
8.50
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
8.20
The Sea of Trees
2016
6.20
Commando Invasion
1987
6.20
Oda Nobunaga
1992
8.00
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
0.00
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
6.69
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
6.91
Isle of Dogs
2018
7.84
Bel Canto
2018
5.45
Fukushima 50
2020
6.50
The Memories of Happiness
2017
0.00
The King and I
2018
7.00
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
7.24
Bonds
1998
4.40
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
7.60
Baian the Assassin
1990
0.00
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
0.00
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
7.65
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
5.36
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
0.00
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
0.00
Kokuho
2025
8.06
The Final Piece
2025
9.40
Revenge in Kobikicho
2026
0.00
The Cartier Panther
2025
0.00
星ひとつの夜
2007
0.00