
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
