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.

Movies with Ken Watanabe

• Inception 2010 · ★ 8.4
• Batman Begins 2005 · ★ 7.7
• Godzilla 2014 · ★ 6.4
• Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014 · ★ 6.0
• The Last Samurai 2003 · ★ 7.6
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019 · ★ 6.9
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019 · ★ 6.7
• Transformers: The Last Knight 2017 · ★ 6.1
• Isle of Dogs 2018 · ★ 7.8
• The Creator 2023 · ★ 7.0
• Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 · ★ 7.6
• Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 · ★ 7.5
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 2009 · ★ 5.9
• The Sea of Trees 2016 · ★ 6.2
• Tampopo 1985 · ★ 7.8
• Earth 2007 · ★ 7.7
• 7 Guardians of the Tomb 2018 · ★ 5.3
• Shanghai 2010 · ★ 6.1
• Fukushima 50 2020 · ★ 6.5
• Bel Canto 2018 · ★ 5.4
• Kokuho 2025 · ★ 7.9
• Unforgiven 2013 · ★ 7.0
• Rage 2016 · ★ 6.9
• Ashes and Snow 2005 · ★ 7.3
• Kensuke's Kingdom 2024 · ★ 7.1
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 1997 · ★ 7.6
• Memories of Tomorrow 2006 · ★ 6.1
• The Sea and Poison 1986 · ★ 7.0
• Space Travelers 2000 · ★ 6.1
• The Unbroken 2009 · ★ 6.7
• Year One in the North 2005 · ★ 5.7
• MacArthur's Children 1984 · ★ 5.5
• The King and I 2018 · ★ 7.0
• Samurai Vengeance 2026 · ★ 8.6
• Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji 2001 · ★ 5.9
• Bonds 1998 · ★ 5.6
• The Final Piece 2025 · ★ 7.7
• T.R.Y. 2003 · ★ 7.2
• Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home 2012 · ★ 6.4
• Commando Invasion 1987 · ★ 6.8