Ken Watanabe
Born October 21, 1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Batman Begins
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Last Samurai
Transformers: The Last Knight
The Creator
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Isle of Dogs
Memoirs of a Geisha
Letters from Iwo Jima
Kokuho
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Tampopo
The Sea of Trees
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Shanghai
Earth
Fukushima 50
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
The Final Piece
Unforgiven
Rage
Bel Canto
Kensuke's Kingdom
Samurai Vengeance
Year One in the North
The Unbroken
The Whispered City
TV Shows
Tokyo Vice
Segodon
Masamune Shogun
Hanekonma
Unbound
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Back of Father
The Fire Still Burns
Hojo Tokimune
NHK WORLD PRIME
Gokenin Zankuro
Vessel of Sand
TRUE COLORS
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Waga Machi
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Toubousha
Baian the Assassin
Kagi-shi
Izakaya Chōji
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
五年目のひとり
Musuko no Gokikan
Unreleased
あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－
More Movies
Space Travelers
All Lives
The Sea and Poison
Ashes and Snow
MacArthur's Children
Memories of Tomorrow
The Making of "Tampopo"
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
An Artist of the Floating World
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Takeda Shingen
The King and I
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Snow Jack
Evolution Within Extinction
Oda Nobunaga
Drowning Fish
T.R.Y.
星ひとつの夜
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
True Love: Making The Creator
The Memories of Happiness
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Bonds
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
Baian the Assassin
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
A School Behind Bars
Hanzo, the Razor
第三の時効
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
