Ken Watanabe Movies, Biography & Filmography
Known for: Acting
Birthday: October 21, 1959
Age: 66
Place of birth: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Popularity: 2.7
About 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.
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Inception
2010★8.4
Batman Begins
2005★7.7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019★6.9
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019★6.7
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014★6.0
The Last Samurai
2003★7.6
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017★6.1
Godzilla
2014★6.4
The Creator
2023★7.0
Isle of Dogs
2018★7.8
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006★7.5
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005★7.6
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009★5.9
The Sea of Trees
2016★6.2
Kokuho
2025★7.8
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018★5.3
Shanghai
2010★6.1
The Final Piece
2025★8.0
Tampopo
1985★7.8
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024★7.2
Bel Canto
2018★5.5
Fukushima 50
2020★6.5
Earth
2007★7.6
Rage
2016★6.9
Samurai Vengeance
2026★8.8
Unforgiven
2013★7.0
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997★7.7
The King and I
2018★7.0
Ashes and Snow
2005★7.3
The Unbroken
2009★6.7
Oda Nobunaga
1992★8.0
All Lives
2024★7.3
T.R.Y.
2003★7.2
Evolution Within Extinction
2014★7.7
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001★5.9
Year One in the North
2005★5.7
Memories of Tomorrow
2006★6.1
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986★0.0
The Whispered City
2000★9.0
Drowning Fish
2001★7.7
The Sea and Poison
1986★7.0
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011★0.0
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012★6.4
Space Travelers
2000★6.1
An Artist of the Floating World
2019★0.0
Snow Jack
2014★0.0
Commando Invasion
1987★6.8
Takeda Shingen
1991★10.0
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017★0.0
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991★7.5
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002★8.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020★7.0
The Memories of Happiness
2017★0.0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993★0.0
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007★0.0
A School Behind Bars
2010★10.0
Hanzo, the Razor
1993★0.0
Bonds
1998★5.6
MacArthur's Children
1984★5.5
True Love: Making The Creator
2023★6.3
Baian the Assassin
1990★0.0
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003★0.0
星ひとつの夜
2007★0.0
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992★0.0
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985★8.8
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025★0.0
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
2008★0.0
第三の時効
2003★0.0
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992★8.5
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Career range in this list starts from 1984.