Ken Watanabe
Actor
Born October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
東雲朔太郎
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
All Lives
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
The Creator
Harun
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
Toubousha
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
The King and I
The King of Siam
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지
Rage
Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
A School Behind Bars
Inception
Saito
Shanghai
Tanaka
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
Earth
Narrator (voice)
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
Memoirs of a Geisha
Le président
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Ashes and Snow
Japanese Narrator (voice)
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
第三の時効
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Drowning Fish
Miyota
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
The Whispered City
Ishida
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Kagi-shi
Hanzo, the Razor
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
Waga Machi
Izakaya Chōji
Oda Nobunaga
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen
Narrator
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
Musuko no Gokikan
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Harimao
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
Commando Invasion
The Sea and Poison
Toda
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
Tampopo
Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
A Tale of Two Truncheons