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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Koide, Niigata, Japan, 1959-10-21

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance	Samurai Master	70
2	1984	MacArthur's Children	Tetsuo Nakai	54
3	1985	Kekkon Annai Mystery		82
4	1985	Tampopo	Gun	78
5	1986	The Making of "Tampopo"	Self	0
6	1986	The Sea and Poison	Toda	69
7	1987	Commando Invasion		62
8	1990	Baian the Assassin	Dr. Baian	0
9	1991	A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era	Ryoma Sakamoto	70
10	1992	Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi	Kojirō	85
11	1992	Oda Nobunaga		80
12	1992	Chronicle of the Town Magistrate	Mochizuki Koheita	0
13	1993	Hanzo, the Razor		0
14	1993	Baian the Assassin: Showdown	Dr. Baian	0
15	1997	Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald	Raita Onuki	75
16	1998	Bonds	Detective Sako Akio	52
17	2000	Space Travelers	Sakamaki ("Crusher")	59
18	2000	The Whispered City	Ishida	0
19	2001	Drowning Fish	Miyota	70
20	2002	Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS	Okubo	70
21	2003	T.R.Y.	Masanobu Azuma	70
22	2003	Another Battle/Conspiracy	Fujimaki Hiroaki	0
23	2003	The Last Samurai	Moritsugu Katsumoto	76
24	2005	Year One in the North	Komatsubara Hideaki	49
25	2005	Batman Begins	Ra's al Ghul	77
26	2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	Chairman	77
27	2006	Memories of Tomorrow	Masayuki Saeki	60
28	2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	General Tadamichi Kuribayashi	75
29	2007	Earth	Narrator (voice)	76
30	2009	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Mr. Tall	58
31	2009	The Unbroken	Hajime Onchi	67
32	2010	Shanghai	Tanaka	61
33	2010	Inception	Saito	84
34		第三の時効		0
35	2010	A School Behind Bars		100
36	2011	Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -		0
37	2012	Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home	Junichiro Kawaguchi	45
38	2013	Unforgiven	Jubee Kamata	70
39	2014	Godzilla	Dr. Ishiro Serizawa	63
40	2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Drift (voice)	59
41	2014	Snow Jack	Reiji Kurata	0
42	2014	Evolution Within Extinction	Self	75
43	2016	The Sea of Trees	Takumi Nakamura	62
44	2016	Rage	Yohei Maki	68
45	2017	The Memories of Happiness	Taro Miura	0
46	2017	Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween	Restaurant Patron	0
47	2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Drift (voice)	61
48	2018	7 Guardians of the Tomb	Father	54
49	2018	Isle of Dogs	Head Surgeon (voice)	79
50	2018	Bel Canto	Katsumi Hosokawa	54
51	2018	The King and I	The King of Siam	70
52	2019	An Artist of the Floating World	Ono Masuji	0
53	2019	Pokémon Detective Pikachu	Lieutenant Hide Yoshida	69
54	2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Dr. Ishiro Serizawa	67
55	2020	Fukushima 50	Masao Yoshida	64
56	2020	劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編		70
57	2023	The Creator	Harun	71
58	2023	True Love: Making The Creator	Self	80
59	2024	Kensuke's Kingdom	Kensuke (voice)	67
60	2024	All Lives		67
61	2025	National Treasure		0
62	2025	盤上の向日葵		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Hanekonma	Genzo Onodera	80
2	1987	Masamune Shogun	伊達政宗	92
3	1989	Oda Nobunaga		0
4	1990	Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen		95
5	1990	Musuko no Gokikan		0
6	1991	Baian the Assassin	Fujieda Baian	100
7	1992	Izakaya Chōji		0
8	1992	Waga Machi		0
9	1993	Kagi-shi		0
10	1993	The Fire Still Burns	Fujiwara Tsunekiyo	0
11	1995	Gokenin Zankuro	Zankuro Matsudaira	80
12	1998	Shimei Tehai		0
13	2000	Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Yokoyama	78
14	2001	Hojo Tokimune	Hojo Tokiyori	0
15	2002	強行犯捜査第七係		0
16	2002	横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)		0
17	2002	Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko		0
18	2003	藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」		0
19	2003	川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語		0
20	2004	Vessel of Sand	Shuichiro Imanishi	40
21	2011	Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo	Regular	0
22	2014	Back of Father	Takamura Kouji	80
23	2016	五年目のひとり	키자키 슈지	0
24	2017	NHK WORLD PRIME	Self - Presenter	90
25	2018	Segodon	Shimazu Nariakira	83
26	2020	Toubousha		70
27	2022	Tokyo Vice	Hiroto Katagiri	79
28	2025	Unbound	Tamema Okitsugu	0
29	2025	TRUE COLORS	Taichirou Tsujimura	70