Ken Watanabe
Born October 21, 1959 (Age: 66)
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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.
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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Filmography
Kokuho
2025
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as Hanjiro Hanai
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Age: 65
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
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as Kensuke (voice)
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Age: 64
The Creator
2023
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as Harun
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Age: 63
Fukushima 50
2020
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as Masao Yoshida
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Age: 60
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
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as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Age: 59
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
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as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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Age: 59
Bel Canto
2018
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as Katsumi Hosokawa
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Age: 58
Isle of Dogs
2018
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as Head Surgeon (voice)
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Age: 58
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
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as Father
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Age: 58
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
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as Drift (voice)
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Age: 57
The Sea of Trees
2016
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as Takumi Nakamura
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Age: 56
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
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as Self
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Age: 54
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
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as Drift (voice)
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Age: 54
Godzilla
2014
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as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Age: 54
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
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as
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Age: 51
Inception
2010
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as Saito
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Age: 50
Shanghai
2010
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as Tanaka
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Age: 50
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
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as Mr. Tall
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Age: 50
Earth
2007
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 47
星ひとつの夜
2007
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as Nonoyama Hiroji
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Age: 47
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
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as Self
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Age: 47
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
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as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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Age: 47
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
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as Le président
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Age: 46
Batman Begins
2005
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as Ra's al Ghul
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Age: 45
The Last Samurai
2003
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as Moritsugu Katsumoto
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Age: 44
The Whispered City
2000
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as Ishida
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Age: 40
Space Travelers
2000
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as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
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Age: 40
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
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as
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Age: 33
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
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as Ryoma Sakamoto
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Age: 31
Takeda Shingen
1991
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as Narrator
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Age: 31
Baian the Assassin
1990
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as Dr. Baian
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Age: 31