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.
★8.4
MOVIE2010
Inception
as Saito
★7.7
MOVIE2005
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2023
The Creator
as Harun
★6.4
MOVIE2014
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
★6.9
MOVIE2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
★6.7
MOVIE2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
★7.6
MOVIE2003
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
★6.1
MOVIE2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2018
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
★7.6
MOVIE2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Le président
★7.8
MOVIE2025
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Oda Nobunaga
★7.5
MOVIE2006
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
★5.3
MOVIE2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
MOVIE1986
The Making of "Tampopo"
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2016
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
★7.6
MOVIE2007
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2005
Ashes and Snow
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
★7.8
MOVIE1985
Tampopo
as Gun
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2020
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
★7.7
MOVIE1997
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita Onuki
★6.1
MOVIE2010
Shanghai
as Tanaka
MOVIE1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki Koheita
★6.1
MOVIE2000
Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
★6.7
MOVIE2009
The Unbroken
as Hajime Onchi
★5.9
MOVIE2001
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Rage
as Yohei Maki
★7.1
MOVIE1986
The Sea and Poison
as Toda
★8.8
MOVIE2026
Samurai Vengeance
as Kinji Shinoda
MOVIE2008
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
★7.0
MOVIE2018
The King and I
as The King of Siam
★9.0
MOVIE2000
The Whispered City
as Ishida
★5.5
MOVIE2018
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
MOVIE2019
An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki Saeki
★6.7
MOVIE2024
All Lives
MOVIE1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. Baian
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Year One in the North
as Komatsubara Hideaki
★7.0
MOVIE2013
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
★5.6
MOVIE1998
Bonds
as Detective Sako Akio
★6.4
MOVIE2012
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
★7.7
MOVIE2014
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2010
A School Behind Bars
★7.2
MOVIE2003
T.R.Y.
as Masanobu Azuma
MOVIE1990
Baian the Assassin
as Dr. Baian
MOVIE2007
星ひとつの夜
as Nonoyama Hiroji
★9.4
MOVIE2025
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
★6.8
MOVIE1987
Commando Invasion
MOVIE2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
MOVIE2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Okubo
MOVIE2011
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
★7.7
MOVIE2001
Drowning Fish
as Miyota
MOVIE2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
MOVIE2017
The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
★10.0
MOVIE1991
Takeda Shingen
as Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma Sakamoto
★8.8
MOVIE1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery
MOVIE2003
第三の時効
★8.5
MOVIE1992
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Kojirō
MOVIE2007
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
as Self
MOVIE2014
Snow Jack
as Reiji Kurata
★8.0
MOVIE2023
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE1984
MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo Nakai
★7.0
MOVIE2020
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
MOVIE1993