Ken Watanabe
Born 1959
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 Acade…
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Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -(2026)
as Self
Samurai Vengeance(2026)
as Kinji Shinoda
The Final Piece(2025)
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER(2025)
Kokuho(2025)
as Hanjiro Hanai
All Lives(2024)
Kensuke's Kingdom(2024)
as Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator(2023)
as Self
The Creator(2023)
as Harun
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編(2020)
Fukushima 50(2020)
as Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters(2019)
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu(2019)
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World(2019)
as Ono Masuji
The King and I(2018)
as The King of Siam
Bel Canto(2018)
as Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs(2018)
as Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb(2018)
as Father
Transformers: The Last Knight(2017)
as Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween(2017)
as Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness(2017)
as Taro Miura
Rage(2016)
as Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees(2016)
as Takumi Nakamura
Evolution Within Extinction(2014)
as Self
Snow Jack(2014)
as Reiji Kurata
Transformers: Age of Extinction(2014)
as Drift (voice)
Godzilla(2014)
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven(2013)
as Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home(2012)
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -(2011)
A School Behind Bars(2010)
Inception(2010)In catalog
as Saito
Shanghai(2010)
as Tanaka
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant(2009)
as Mr. Tall
The Unbroken(2009)
as Hajime Onchi
Earth(2007)
as Narrator (voice)
星ひとつの夜(2007)
as Nonoyama Hiroji
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'(2007)
as Self
Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow(2006)
as Masayuki Saeki
Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)
as Chairman
Batman Begins(2005)
as Ra's al Ghul
Ashes and Snow(2005)
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
Year One in the North(2005)
as Komatsubara Hideaki
The Last Samurai(2003)
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
第三の時効(2003)
Another Battle/Conspiracy(2003)
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
T.R.Y.(2003)
as Masanobu Azuma
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS(2002)
as Okubo
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji(2001)
Drowning Fish(2001)
as Miyota
- Film
Proof of the Man 2001(2001)
as Munesue Koichiro
The Whispered City(2000)
as Ishida
Space Travelers(2000)
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Bonds(1998)
as Detective Sako Akio
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald(1997)
as Raita Onuki
Baian the Assassin: Showdown(1993)
as Dr. Baian
Hanzo, the Razor(1993)
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate(1992)
as Mochizuki Koheita
Oda Nobunaga(1992)
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi(1992)
as Kojirō
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era(1991)
as Ryoma Sakamoto
Takeda Shingen(1991)
as Narrator
Baian the Assassin(1990)
as Dr. Baian
Commando Invasion(1987)
The Sea and Poison(1986)
as Toda
The Making of "Tampopo"(1986)
as Self
Tampopo(1985)
as Gun
Kekkon Annai Mystery(1985)
MacArthur's Children(1984)
as Tetsuo Nakai
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