Ken Watanabe
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 (103)
Samurai Vengeance
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
The Final Piece
Unbound
TRUE COLORS
Kokuho
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Kensuke's Kingdom
All Lives
True Love: Making The Creator
The Creator
Tokyo Vice
Alice in Borderland
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Toubousha
Fukushima 50
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
An Artist of the Floating World
Segodon
Isle of Dogs
The King and I
Bel Canto
7 Guardians of the Tomb
NHK WORLD PRIME
Transformers: The Last Knight
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
The Memories of Happiness
Rage
The Sea of Trees
五年目のひとり
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Back of Father
Evolution Within Extinction
Godzilla
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Snow Jack
Unforgiven
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
A School Behind Bars
Inception
Shanghai
The Unbroken
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant- 刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
Earth
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
星ひとつの夜
Letters from Iwo Jima
Memories of Tomorrow
Batman Begins
Memoirs of a Geisha
Ashes and Snow
Year One in the North
Vessel of Sand
The Last Samurai
T.R.Y.
第三の時効
Another Battle/Conspiracy
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
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)- 強行犯捜査第七係
Hojo Tokimune
Drowning Fish
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
The Whispered City
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Space Travelers
Bonds- Shimei Tehai
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Gokenin Zankuro
Hanzo, the Razor
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Kagi-shi
The Fire Still Burns
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Oda Nobunaga
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Izakaya Chōji
Waga Machi
Takeda Shingen
Baian the Assassin
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Baian the Assassin
Musuko no Gokikan- Oda Nobunaga
Masamune Shogun
Commando Invasion
Hanekonma
The Sea and Poison
The Making of "Tampopo"
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Tampopo
MacArthur's Children
A Tale of Two Truncheons