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