0.0
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
2026
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born October 21, 1959Uonuma, 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.
Movies
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8.5
Samurai Vengeance
2026
7.7
The Final Piece
2025
0.0
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
7.9
Kokuho
2025
7.2
All Lives
2024
7.1
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
6.2
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
7.0
The Creator
2023
7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
6.5
Fukushima 50
2020
6.7
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
6.9
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
0.0
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
7.0
The King and I
2018
5.4
Bel Canto
2018
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018
5.3
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
6.1
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
0.0
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
0.0
The Memories of Happiness
2017
6.9
Rage
2016
6.2
The Sea of Trees
2016
7.7
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
0.0
Snow Jack
2014
6.0
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
6.4
Godzilla
2014
7.0
Unforgiven
2013
6.4
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
0.0
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
10.0
A School Behind Bars
2010
8.4
Inception
2010
6.1
Shanghai
2010
5.9
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
6.7
The Unbroken
2009
7.7
Earth
2007
0.0
星ひとつの夜
2007
0.0
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
7.5
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
6.1
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
7.6
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
7.7
Batman Begins
2005
7.3
Ashes and Snow
2005
5.7
Year One in the North
2005
7.6
The Last Samurai
2003
0.0
第三の時効
2003
0.0
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
7.2
T.R.Y.
2003
8.0
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
5.9
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
7.7
Drowning Fish
2001
Proof of the Man 2001
0.0
Proof of the Man 2001
2001
9.0
The Whispered City
2000
6.1
Space Travelers
2000
5.6
Bonds
1998
7.6
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
0.0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
0.0
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
0.0
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
8.0
Oda Nobunaga
1992
8.5
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
7.5
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
10.0
Takeda Shingen
1991
0.0
Baian the Assassin
1990
6.8
Commando Invasion
1987
7.0
The Sea and Poison
1986
0.0
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
7.8
Tampopo
1985
8.8
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
5.5
MacArthur's Children
1984
TV Shows
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0.0
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
9.3
Unbound
8.0
TRUE COLORS
7.9
Tokyo Vice
8.1
Alice in Borderland
7.0
Toubousha
8.3
Segodon
9.0
NHK WORLD PRIME
0.0
五年目のひとり
8.8
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
8.0
Back of Father
0.0
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
0.0
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
4.0
Vessel of Sand
0.0
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
0.0
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
8.0
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
0.0
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
強行犯捜査第七係
0.0
強行犯捜査第七係
8.0
Hojo Tokimune
7.4
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Shimei Tehai
0.0
Shimei Tehai
8.0
Gokenin Zankuro
0.0
The Fire Still Burns
0.0
Kagi-shi
0.0
Waga Machi
0.0
Izakaya Chōji
10.0
Baian the Assassin
0.0
Musuko no Gokikan
9.5
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Oda Nobunaga
0.0
Oda Nobunaga
9.0
Masamune Shogun
8.0
Hanekonma
0.0