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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

ActingOctober 21, 1959(age 66)Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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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.

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The Last Samurai

2003·Moritsugu Katsumoto

2005·Ra's al Ghul

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Filmography (101)

Samurai Vengeance

2026·Kinji Shinoda

Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho

2026·東雲朔太郎

2025·Hanjiro Hanai

The Final Piece

2025·Shigeyoshi Toumyo

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2022·Executive Producer

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

2012·Production Manager

Memories of Tomorrow

2006·Executive Producer

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LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER

2025

2025·Tamema Okitsugu

2025·Taichirou Tsujimura

Kensuke's Kingdom

2024·Kensuke (voice)

True Love: Making The Creator

2022·Hiroto Katagiri

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

2020·Masao Yoshida

Alice in Borderland

2020·Old Gentleman

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019·Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

2019·Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

An Artist of the Floating World

2019·Ono Masuji

2018·Head Surgeon (voice)

2018·Katsumi Hosokawa

2018·The King of Siam

7 Guardians of the Tomb

2018·Shimazu Nariakira

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

2017·Restaurant Patron

Transformers: The Last Knight

2017·Drift (voice)

The Memories of Happiness

2017·Taro Miura

NHK WORLD PRIME

2017·Self - Presenter

2016·Yohei Maki

The Sea of Trees

2016·Takumi Nakamura

五年目のひとり

2016·키자키 슈지

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

2015·東雲朔太郎

2014·Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Transformers: Age of Extinction

2014·Drift (voice)

Evolution Within Extinction

2014·Reiji Kurata

2014·Takamura Kouji

2013·Jubee Kamata

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

2012·Junichiro Kawaguchi

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo

A School Behind Bars

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009·Hajime Onchi

刑事一代平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史

2007·Narrator (voice)

Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'

星ひとつの夜

2007·Nonoyama Hiroji

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006·General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Memories of Tomorrow

2006·Masayuki Saeki

2005·Ra's al Ghul

Year One in the North

2005·Komatsubara Hideaki

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005·Le président

2004·Shuichiro Imanishi

The Last Samurai

2003·Moritsugu Katsumoto

2003·Masanobu Azuma

第三の時効

Another Battle/Conspiracy

2003·Fujimaki Hiroaki

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)

強行犯捜査第七係

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

2001·Hojo Tokiyori

Space Travelers

2000·Sakamaki ("Crusher")

The Whispered City

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

1998·Detective Sako Akio

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

1997·Raita Onuki

Gokenin Zankuro

1995·Zankuro Matsudaira

Hanzo, the Razor

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

1993·Dr. Baian

The Fire Still Burns

1993·Fujiwara Tsunekiyo

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

1992·Mochizuki Koheita

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

1991·Ryoma Sakamoto

Baian the Assassin

1991·Fujieda Baian

Baian the Assassin

1990·Dr. Baian

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Musuko no Gokikan

Commando Invasion

Masamune Shogun

1987·伊達政宗

The Making of "Tampopo"

The Sea and Poison

1986·Genzo Onodera

Kekkon Annai Mystery

MacArthur's Children

1984·Tetsuo Nakai

A Tale of Two Truncheons