Ken Watanabe
- Acting
- October 21, 1959 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder - · Self
- Samurai Vengeance · Kinji Shinoda
- Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho · 東雲朔太郎
- The Final Piece · Shigeyoshi Toumyo
- LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
- Kokuho · Hanjiro Hanai
- Unbound · Tamema Okitsugu
- TRUE COLORS · Taichirou Tsujimura
- All Lives
- Kensuke's Kingdom · Kensuke (Voice)
- True Love: Making The Creator · Self
- The Creator · Harun
- Tokyo Vice · Hiroto Katagiri, Executive producer
- Alice in Borderland · Old Gentleman
- Toubousha
- 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
- Fukushima 50 · Masao Yoshida
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters · Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu · Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
- An Artist of the Floating World · Ono Masuji
- The King and I · The King of Siam
- Bel Canto · Katsumi Hosokawa
- Isle of Dogs · Head Surgeon (Voice)
- 7 Guardians of the Tomb · Father
- Segodon · Shimazu Nariakira
- NHK WORLD PRIME · Self
- Transformers: The Last Knight · Drift (Voice)
- Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween · Restaurant Patron
- The Memories of Happiness · Taro Miura
- 五年目のひとり · 키자키 슈지
- Rage · Yohei Maki
- The Sea of Trees · Takumi Nakamura
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk · 東雲朔太郎
- Evolution Within Extinction · Self
- Snow Jack · Reiji Kurata
- Back of Father · Takamura Kouji
- Transformers: Age of Extinction · Drift (Voice)
- Godzilla · Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Unforgiven · Jubee Kamata
- Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home · Junichiro Kawaguchi, Production Manager
- Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo · Regular
- Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
- A School Behind Bars
- Inception · Saito
- Shanghai · Tanaka
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant · Mr. Tall
- The Unbroken · Hajime Onchi
- 刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
- Earth · Narrator (Voice)
- 星ひとつの夜 · Nonoyama Hiroji
- Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' · Self
- Letters from Iwo Jima · General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Memories of Tomorrow · Masayuki Saeki, Executive producer
- Memoirs of a Geisha · Chairman
- Batman Begins · Ra's al Ghul
- Ashes and Snow · Japanese Narrator (Voice)
- Year One in the North · Komatsubara Hideaki
- Vessel of Sand · Shuichiro Imanishi
- 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
- The Last Samurai · Moritsugu Katsumoto
- 第三の時効
- Another Battle/Conspiracy · Fujimaki Hiroaki
- 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
- T.R.Y. · Masanobu Azuma
- Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
- 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
- 強行犯捜査第七係
- Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS · Okubo
- Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
- Drowning Fish · Miyota
- Proof of the Man 2001 · Munesue Koichiro
- Hojo Tokimune · Hojo Tokiyori
- The Whispered City · Ishida
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park · Yokoyama
- Space Travelers · Sakamaki ("Crusher")
- Shimei Tehai
- Bonds · Detective Sako Akio
- Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald · Raita Onuki
- Gokenin Zankuro · Zankuro Matsudaira
- Baian the Assassin: Showdown · Dr. Baian