Personal Info
Known Credits
61
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1959-10-21 (66 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Koide, Niigata, Japan
Also Known For
渡邊謙渡辺 謙
Ken Watanabe
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 i ...
Acting
2025 --
National Treasure
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2024 --
All Lives
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2024 --
Kensuke's Kingdom
| Kensuke (voice)
2023 --
True Love: Making The Creator
| Self
2023 --
The Creator
| Harun
2020 --
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
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2020 --
Fukushima 50
| Masao Yoshida
2019 --
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
| Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019 --
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
| Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019 --
An Artist of the Floating World
| Ono Masuji
2018 --
The King and I
| The King of Siam
2018 --
Bel Canto
| Katsumi Hosokawa
2018 --
Isle of Dogs
| Head Surgeon (voice)
2018 --
7 Guardians of the Tomb
| Father
2017 --
Transformers: The Last Knight
| Drift (voice)
2017 --
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
| Restaurant Patron
2017 --
The Memories of Happiness
| Taro Miura
2016 --
Rage
| Yohei Maki
2016 --
The Sea of Trees
| Takumi Nakamura
2014 --
Evolution Within Extinction
| Self
2014 --
Snow Jack
| Reiji Kurata
2014 --
Transformers: Age of Extinction
| Drift (voice)
2014 --
Godzilla
| Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2013 --
Unforgiven
| Jubee Kamata
2012 --
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
| Junichiro Kawaguchi
2011 --
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
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2010 --
A School Behind Bars
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2010 --
Inception
| Saito
2010 --
Shanghai
| Tanaka
2009 --
The Unbroken
| Hajime Onchi
2009 --
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
| Mr. Tall
2007 --
Earth
| Narrator (voice)
2006 --
Letters from Iwo Jima
| General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006 --
Memories of Tomorrow
| Masayuki Saeki
2005 --
Memoirs of a Geisha
| Chairman
2005 --
Batman Begins
| Ra's al Ghul
2005 --
Year One in the North
| Komatsubara Hideaki
2003 --
The Last Samurai
| Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003 --
Another Battle/Conspiracy
| Fujimaki Hiroaki
2003 --
T.R.Y.
| Masanobu Azuma
2002 --
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
| Okubo
2001 --
Drowning Fish
| Miyota
2000 --
The Whispered City
| Ishida
2000 --
Space Travelers
| Sakamaki ("Crusher")
1998 --
Bonds
| Detective Sako Akio
1997 --
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
| Raita Onuki
1993 --
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
| Dr. Baian
1993 --
Hanzo, the Razor
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1992 --
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
| Mochizuki Koheita
1992 --
Oda Nobunaga
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1992 --
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
| Kojirō
1991 --
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
| Ryoma Sakamoto
1990 --
Baian the Assassin
| Dr. Baian
1987 --
Commando Invasion
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1986 --
The Sea and Poison
| Toda
1986 --
The Making of "Tampopo"
| Self
1985 --
Tampopo
| Gun
1985 --
Kekkon Annai Mystery
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1984 --
MacArthur's Children
| Tetsuo Nakai
1980 --
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
| Samurai Master