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Ken Watanabe

Acting
October 21, 1959 (66 years old)
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Popularity: 4
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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 is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins...

Also Known As

渡邊謙 • 渡辺 謙 • کِن واتانابه • ک ِن واتانابه • Kensaku Watanabe

Known For

Inception movie poster (2010)
8.4

Inception

Saito

Alice in Borderland series poster (2020)
8.1

Alice in Borderland

Old Gentleman

Batman Begins movie poster (2005)
7.7

Batman Begins

Ra's al Ghul

Transformers: Age of Extinction movie poster (2014)
6.0

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Drift (voice)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters movie poster (2019)
6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

The Last Samurai movie poster (2003)
7.6

The Last Samurai

Moritsugu Katsumoto

Tokyo Vice series poster (2022)
7.9

Tokyo Vice

Hiroto Katagiri

Godzilla movie poster (2014)
6.4

Godzilla

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Transformers: The Last Knight movie poster (2017)
6.1

Transformers: The Last Knight

Drift (voice)

The Creator movie poster (2023)
7.0

The Creator

Harun

Pokémon Detective Pikachu movie poster (2019)
6.9

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen series poster (1990)
9.5

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Photos of Ken Watanabe

Filmography

2020s

Samurai Vengeance movie poster (2026)
9.2

Samurai Vengeance

Kinji Shinoda

Kokuho movie poster (2025)
8.0

Kokuho

Hanjiro Hanai

The Final Piece movie poster (2025)
9.4

The Final Piece

Shigeyoshi Toumyo

LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER movie poster (2025)

LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER

Kensuke's Kingdom movie poster (2024)
7.2

Kensuke's Kingdom

Kensuke (voice)

All Lives movie poster (2024)
6.7

All Lives

The Creator movie poster (2023)
7.0

The Creator

Harun

True Love: Making The Creator movie poster (2023)
8.0

True Love: Making The Creator

Self

Fukushima 50 movie poster (2020)
6.5

Fukushima 50

Masao Yoshida

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 movie poster (2020)
7.0

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

2010s

Godzilla: King of the Monsters movie poster (2019)
6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Pokémon Detective Pikachu movie poster (2019)
6.9

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

An Artist of the Floating World movie poster (2019)

An Artist of the Floating World

Ono Masuji

Isle of Dogs movie poster (2018)
7.8

Isle of Dogs

Head Surgeon (voice)

7 Guardians of the Tomb movie poster (2018)
5.3

7 Guardians of the Tomb

Father

Bel Canto movie poster (2018)
5.5

Bel Canto

Katsumi Hosokawa

The King and I movie poster (2018)
7.0

The King and I

The King of Siam

Transformers: The Last Knight movie poster (2017)
6.1

Transformers: The Last Knight

Drift (voice)

The Memories of Happiness movie poster (2017)

The Memories of Happiness

Taro Miura

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween movie poster (2017)

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

Restaurant Patron

Rage movie poster (2016)
6.8

Rage

Yohei Maki

The Sea of Trees movie poster (2016)
6.2

The Sea of Trees

Takumi Nakamura

Transformers: Age of Extinction movie poster (2014)
6.0

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Drift (voice)

Godzilla movie poster (2014)
6.4

Godzilla

Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Evolution Within Extinction movie poster (2014)
7.7

Evolution Within Extinction

Self

Snow Jack movie poster (2014)

Snow Jack

Reiji Kurata

Unforgiven movie poster (2013)
7.0

Unforgiven

Jubee Kamata

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home movie poster (2012)
6.4

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - movie poster (2011)

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

Inception movie poster (2010)
8.4

Inception

Saito

Shanghai movie poster (2010)
6.1

Shanghai

Tanaka

A School Behind Bars movie poster (2010)
10.0

A School Behind Bars

2000s

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant movie poster (2009)
5.9

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Mr. Tall

The Unbroken movie poster (2009)
6.7

The Unbroken

Hajime Onchi

Earth movie poster (2007)
7.6

Earth

Narrator (voice)

Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' movie poster (2007)

Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'

Self

星ひとつの夜 movie poster (2007)

星ひとつの夜

Nonoyama Hiroji

Letters from Iwo Jima movie poster (2006)
7.5

Letters from Iwo Jima

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Memories of Tomorrow movie poster (2006)
6.1

Memories of Tomorrow

Masayuki Saeki

Batman Begins movie poster (2005)
7.7

Batman Begins

Ra's al Ghul

Memoirs of a Geisha movie poster (2005)
7.6

Memoirs of a Geisha

Le président

Year One in the North movie poster (2005)
5.7

Year One in the North

Komatsubara Hideaki

Ashes and Snow movie poster (2005)
7.2

Ashes and Snow

Japanese Narrator (voice)

The Last Samurai movie poster (2003)
7.6

The Last Samurai

Moritsugu Katsumoto

T.R.Y. movie poster (2003)
7.2

T.R.Y.

Masanobu Azuma

Another Battle/Conspiracy movie poster (2003)

Another Battle/Conspiracy

Fujimaki Hiroaki

第三の時効 movie poster (2003)

第三の時効

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS movie poster (2002)
8.0

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Okubo

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji movie poster (2001)
5.9

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

Drowning Fish movie poster (2001)
7.7

Drowning Fish

Miyota

Space Travelers movie poster (2000)
6.1

Space Travelers

Sakamaki ("Crusher")

The Whispered City movie poster (2000)
9.0

The Whispered City

Ishida

1990s

Bonds movie poster (1998)
5.6

Bonds

Detective Sako Akio

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald movie poster (1997)
7.7

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

Raita Onuki

Baian the Assassin: Showdown movie poster (1993)

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

Dr. Baian

Hanzo, the Razor movie poster (1993)

Hanzo, the Razor

Oda Nobunaga movie poster (1992)
8.0

Oda Nobunaga

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi movie poster (1992)
8.5

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

Kojirō

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate movie poster (1992)

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

Mochizuki Koheita

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era movie poster (1991)
7.5

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Ryoma Sakamoto

Takeda Shingen movie poster (1991)

Takeda Shingen

Narrator

Baian the Assassin movie poster (1990)

Baian the Assassin

Dr. Baian

1980s

Harimao movie poster (1989)
8.0

Harimao

Producer

Commando Invasion movie poster (1987)
6.8

Commando Invasion

The Sea and Poison movie poster (1986)
7.1

The Sea and Poison

Toda

The Making of "Tampopo" movie poster (1986)

The Making of "Tampopo"

Self

Tampopo movie poster (1985)
7.8

Tampopo

Gun

Kekkon Annai Mystery movie poster (1985)
8.8

Kekkon Annai Mystery

MacArthur's Children movie poster (1984)
5.5

MacArthur's Children

Tetsuo Nakai