Ken Watanabe
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 and Inception.
Filmography
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