Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born: Oct 21, 1959
From: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Credits: 30 titles
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
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Creator | Harun | 2023 | 7.006 |
| True Love: Making The Creator | Self | 2023 | 8.0 |
| 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | 2020 | 7.0 | |
| Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween | Restaurant Patron | 2017 | — |
| Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014 | 6.353 |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014 | 6.0 |
| Evolution Within Extinction | Self | 2014 | 7.7 |
| Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013 | 7.0 |
| Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012 | 6.0 |
| Inception | Saito | 2010 | 8.372 |
| Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010 | 6.112 |
| A School Behind Bars | 2010 | 10.0 | |
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009 | 5.85 |
| The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | 2009 | 6.7 |
| Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2007 | 7.629 |
| Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006 | 7.479 |
| Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006 | 6.139 |
| Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | 2005 | 7.723 |
| Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005 | 5.7 |
| The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003 | 7.603 |
| T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | 2003 | 7.167 |
| 第三の時効 | 2003 | — | |
| Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002 | 8.0 |
| Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001 | 7.667 |
| Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000 | 6.143 |
| The Whispered City | Ishida | 2000 | 9.0 |
| The Making of "Tampopo" | Self | 1986 | — |
| The Sea and Poison | Toda | 1986 | 7.067 |
| Tampopo | Gun | 1985 | 7.8 |
| MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984 | 5.5 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1959 |
| From | Uonuma, Niigata, Japan |