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Ken Watanabe

Acting · Born October 21, 1959 · 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.

Ken Watanabe movies and shows

  • Inception2010
  • Alice in Borderland2020
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters2019
  • Godzilla2014
  • Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen1990
  • Batman Begins2005
  • Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
  • Tokyo Vice2022
  • The Last Samurai2003
  • Segodon2018
  • Transformers: The Last Knight2017
  • Hanekonma1986
  • The Creator2023
  • Isle of Dogs2018
  • Masamune Shogun1987
  • Memoirs of a Geisha2005
  • Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019
  • Unbound2025
  • Ikebukuro West Gate Park2000
  • The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk2015
  • Letters from Iwo Jima2006
  • The Fire Still Burns1993
  • Kokuho2025
  • Hojo Tokimune2001