Ken Watanabe
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday21 October 1959 (66 years old)
Place of birthUonuma, Niigata, Japan
Known credits104
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 …
Samurai Vengeance
2026 · Kinji Shinoda
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026 · 東雲朔太郎
The Final Piece
2025 · Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
2025 · Hanjiro Hanai
Unbound
2025 · Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
2025 · Taichirou Tsujimura
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 · Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
2023 · Self
The Creator
2023 · Harun
Tokyo Vice
2022 · Hiroto Katagiri
Tokyo Vice
2022 · Executive Producer
Alice in Borderland
2020 · Old Gentleman
Toubousha
2020
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2020 · Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
2019 · Ono Masuji
The King and I
2018 · The King of Siam
Bel Canto
2018 · Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018 · Father
Segodon
2018 · Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 · Self - Presenter
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017 · Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness
2017 · Taro Miura
五年目のひとり
2016 · 키자키 슈지
Rage
2016 · Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
2016 · Takumi Nakamura
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · 東雲朔太郎
Evolution Within Extinction
2014 · Self
Snow Jack
2014 · Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
2014 · Takamura Kouji
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 · Drift (voice)
Godzilla
2014 · Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven
2013 · Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012 · Junichiro Kawaguchi
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012 · Production Manager
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011 · Regular
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
A School Behind Bars
2010
Inception
2010 · Saito
Shanghai
2010 · Tanaka
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 · Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
2009 · Hajime Onchi
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