Ken Watanabe
Acting
🎂 1959-10-21
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.
Cast credits(92)
Saito
2010
Ra's al Ghul
2005
Drift (voice)
2014
Hiroto Katagiri
2022
Drift (voice)
2017
Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
Harun
2023
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
1990
伊達政宗
1987
Shimazu Nariakira
2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
Chairman
2005
Mr. Tall
2009
Genzo Onodera
1986
Yokoyama
2000
Takamura Kouji
2014
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006
Father
2018
Zankuro Matsudaira
1995
2024
1985
Gun
1985
Self
2007
Tamema Okitsugu
2025
Narrator (voice)
2007
Hanjiro
2025
Miyota
2001
Ono Masuji
2019
Masao Yoshida
2020
Tanaka
2010
Detective Sako Akio
1998
Self
2014
Raita Onuki
1997
2010
Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
Fujimaki Hiroaki
2003
Taichirou Tsujimura
2025
Hojo Tokiyori
2001
Taro Miura
2017
Takumi Nakamura
2016
1984
Shuichiro Imanishi
2004
Komatsubara Hideaki
2005
Jubee Kamata
2013
1992
Yohei Maki
2016
Reiji Kurata
2014
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
1993
Masayuki Saeki
2006
2002
2020
Self - Presenter
2017
Regular
2011
Ryoma Sakamoto
1991
2003
키자키 슈지
2016
1989
Hajime Onchi
2009
2003
Kensuke (voice)
2024
1990
Masanobu Azuma
2003
1998
2002
Kojirō
1992
Dr. Baian
1990
Mochizuki Koheita
1992
Okubo
2002
Fujieda Baian
1991
Ishida
2000
2025
Tetsuo Nakai
1984
1992
1993
Toda
1986
Self
2023
Junichiro Kawaguchi
2012
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
2000
The King of Siam
2018
1993
2002
Restaurant Patron
2017
Dr. Baian
1993
1992
1987
2020
2011
Self
1986
