Ken Watanabe
Filmography

Ken Watanabe

ActorBorn Oct 21, 1959Uonuma, Niigata, Japan99 titles

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.

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Inception
Inception
2010 · 8.4
Saito
Alice in Borderland
Alice in Borderland
2020 · 8.1
Old Gentleman
Batman Begins
Batman Begins
2005 · 7.7
Ra's al Ghul
The Creator
The Creator
2023 · 7.0
Harun
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · 6.7
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 · 6.0
Drift (voice)
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai
2003 · 7.6
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · 6.1
Drift (voice)
Tokyo Vice
Tokyo Vice
2022 · 7.9
Hiroto Katagiri, Executive Producer
Godzilla
Godzilla
2014 · 6.4
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa