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.
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Kokuho
2025 Movie
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
2025 Series
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
2020 Series
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 Movie
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 Movie
Isle of Dogs
2018 Movie
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
2018 Series
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎
2015 Series
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 Movie
Godzilla
2014 Movie
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 Movie