Cast
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Cast
Ken Watanabe
Known for
Acting
Born
1959-10-21
From
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also known as 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه
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.
Inception
as Saito
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
The Creator
as Harun
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Le président
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tampopo
as Gun
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
Shanghai
as Tanaka
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
Rage
as Yohei Maki
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita Onuki
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
The Whispered City
as Ishida
Samurai Vengeance
as Kinji Shinoda
An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
as Self
The Unbroken
as Hajime Onchi
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Year One in the North
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Bonds
as Detective Sako Akio
All Lives
Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki Saeki
Oda Nobunaga
MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo Nakai
The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
T.R.Y.
as Masanobu Azuma
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Okubo
Ashes and Snow
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
The Sea and Poison
as Toda
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. Baian
Baian the Assassin
as Dr. Baian
Takeda Shingen
as Narrator
Drowning Fish
as Miyota
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma Sakamoto
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
Commando Invasion
A School Behind Bars
Hanzo, the Razor
Snow Jack
as Reiji Kurata
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
The Making of "Tampopo"
as Self
The King and I
as The King of Siam
第三の時効
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Kojirō
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki Koheita
星ひとつの夜
as Nonoyama Hiroji
