Ken Watanabe
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 Inception.
Filmography
Baian the Assassin
1991 · 10.0
A School Behind Bars
2010 · 10.0
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · 9.5
Unbound
2025 · 9.3
Masamune Shogun
1987 · 9.0
The Whispered City
2000 · 9.0
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · 8.8
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985 · 8.8
Samurai Vengeance
2026 · 8.6
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992 · 8.5
Inception
2010 · 8.4
Segodon
2018 · 8.3
Alice in Borderland
2020 · 8.1
Hanekonma
1986 · 8.0
Back of Father
2014 · 8.0
Gokenin Zankuro
1995 · 8.0
Hojo Tokimune
2001 · 8.0
TRUE COLORS
2025 · 8.0
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 · 8.0
Oda Nobunaga
1992 · 8.0
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002 · 8.0
Kokuho
2025 · 7.9
Tokyo Vice
2022 · 7.9
Isle of Dogs
2018 · 7.9
Tampopo
1985 · 7.8
Batman Begins
2005 · 7.7
Earth
2007 · 7.7
The Final Piece
2025 · 7.7
Drowning Fish
2001 · 7.7
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · 7.6
The Last Samurai
2003 · 7.6
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997 · 7.6
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · 7.5
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991 · 7.5
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000 · 7.4
Ashes and Snow
2005 · 7.3
All Lives
2024 · 7.2
T.R.Y.
2003 · 7.2
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 · 7.1
The Creator
2023 · 7.0
Toubousha
2020 · 7.0
Unforgiven
2013 · 7.0
The Sea and Poison
1986 · 7.0
The King and I
2018 · 7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 · 7.0
Rage
2016 · 6.9
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · 6.9
Commando Invasion
1987 · 6.8
The Unbroken
2009 · 6.7
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · 6.7
Fukushima 50
2020 · 6.5
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012 · 6.4
Godzilla
2014 · 6.4
The Sea of Trees
2016 · 6.2
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · 6.1
Shanghai
2010 · 6.1
Memories of Tomorrow
2006 · 6.1
Space Travelers
2000 · 6.1
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 · 6.0
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001 · 5.9
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 · 5.9
Year One in the North
2005 · 5.7
Bonds
1998 · 5.6
MacArthur's Children
1984 · 5.5
Bel Canto
2018 · 5.4
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018 · 5.3
Vessel of Sand
2004 · 4.0
The Fire Still Burns
1993 · 0.0
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003 · 0.0
Waga Machi
1992 · 0.0
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026 · 0.0
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984 · 0.0
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002 · 0.0
Shimei Tehai
1998 · 0.0
Oda Nobunaga
1989 · 0.0
五年目のひとり
2016 · 0.0
Musuko no Gokikan
1990 · 0.0
Kagi-shi
1993 · 0.0
Izakaya Chōji
1992 · 0.0
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011 · 0.0
Snow Jack
2014 · 0.0
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992 · 0.0
星ひとつの夜
2007 · 0.0
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003 · 0.0
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003 · 0.0
Hanzo, the Razor
1993 · 0.0
An Artist of the Floating World
2019 · 0.0
Baian the Assassin
1990 · 0.0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993 · 0.0
第三の時効
2003 · 0.0
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025 · 0.0
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017 · 0.0
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011 · 0.0
Proof of the Man 2001
2001 · 0.0
強行犯捜査第七係
2002 · 0.0
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009 · 0.0
あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－
— · 0.0