Ken Watanabe
Acting
🎂 1959-10-21
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.
Cast credits(91)
Hiroto Katagiri
2022
Shimazu Nariakira
2018
Saito
2010
Tamema Okitsugu
2025
Takamura Kouji
2014
Yokoyama
2000
伊達政宗
1987
Zankuro Matsudaira
1995
Hojo Tokiyori
2001
Self - Presenter
2017
Drift (voice)
2014
Ra's al Ghul
2005
Drift (voice)
2017
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
1993
Harun
2023
Shuichiro Imanishi
2004
Fujieda Baian
1991
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
1990
Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003
1990
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
Regular
2011
2003
Genzo Onodera
1986
Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
2003
2002
Mr. Tall
2009
Chairman
2005
Gun
1985
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006
2002
1984
2002
Father
2018
1989
1992
키자키 슈지
2016
1998
2020
Taichirou Tsujimura
2025
Masao Yoshida
2020
Kensuke (voice)
2024
Takumi Nakamura
2016
Raita Onuki
1997
Narrator (voice)
2007
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
2000
Tanaka
2010
Hanjiro
2025
1992
1993
Masayuki Saeki
2006
Yohei Maki
2016
Miyota
2001
Jubee Kamata
2013
Junichiro Kawaguchi
2012
2024
Masanobu Azuma
2003
Hajime Onchi
2009
Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
Self
2014
Komatsubara Hideaki
2005
Tetsuo Nakai
1984
Ryoma Sakamoto
1991
Kojirō
1992
Okubo
2002
Reiji Kurata
2014
Dr. Baian
1993
1993
Ono Masuji
2019
Ishida
2000
Taro Miura
2017
Detective Sako Akio
1998
Toda
1986
1985
1992
2010
The King of Siam
2018
Fujimaki Hiroaki
2003
2025
Dr. Baian
1990
Self
2023
Restaurant Patron
2017
Mochizuki Koheita
1992
1987
2020
Self
1986
2011
