Acting
Ken Watanabe
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
Film · 2026
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
Film · 2026
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
Series · 2026
Kokuho
Film · 2025
The Final Piece
Film · 2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Film · 2025
Unbound
Series · 2025
TRUE COLORS
Series · 2025
All Lives
Film · 2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
Film · 2024
The Creator
Film · 2023
True Love: Making The Creator
Film · 2023
Tokyo Vice
Series · 2022
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Film · 2020
Fukushima 50
Film · 2020
Toubousha
Series · 2020
Alice in Borderland
Series · 2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Film · 2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Film · 2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Film · 2019
Isle of Dogs
Film · 2018
Bel Canto
Film · 2018
The King and I
Film · 2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Film · 2018
Segodon
Series · 2018
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Film · 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Film · 2017
The Memories of Happiness
Film · 2017
NHK WORLD PRIME
Series · 2017
Rage
Film · 2016
The Sea of Trees
Film · 2016
五年目のひとり
Series · 2016
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Series · 2015
Godzilla
Film · 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Film · 2014
Evolution Within Extinction
Film · 2014
Snow Jack
Film · 2014
Back of Father
Series · 2014
Unforgiven
Film · 2013
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Film · 2012
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Film · 2011
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Series · 2011
Inception
Film · 2010
Shanghai
Film · 2010
A School Behind Bars
Film · 2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Film · 2009
The Unbroken
Film · 2009
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
Series · 2009
Earth
Film · 2007
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Film · 2007
星ひとつの夜
Film · 2007
Letters from Iwo Jima
Film · 2006
Memories of Tomorrow
Film · 2006
Batman Begins
Film · 2005
Year One in the North
Film · 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
Film · 2005
Ashes and Snow
Film · 2005
Vessel of Sand
Series · 2004
The Last Samurai
Film · 2003
T.R.Y.
Film · 2003
第三の時効
Film · 2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Film · 2003
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Series · 2003
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
Series · 2003
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Film · 2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Series · 2002
強行犯捜査第七係
Series · 2002
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
Series · 2002
Drowning Fish
Film · 2001
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Film · 2001
Proof of the Man 2001
Film · 2001
Hojo Tokimune
Series · 2001
Space Travelers
Film · 2000
The Whispered City
Film · 2000
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Series · 2000
Bonds
Film · 1998
Shimei Tehai
Series · 1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Film · 1997
Gokenin Zankuro
Series · 1995
Hanzo, the Razor
Film · 1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Film · 1993
Kagi-shi
Series · 1993
The Fire Still Burns
Series · 1993
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Film · 1992
Oda Nobunaga
Film · 1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Film · 1992
Izakaya Chōji
Series · 1992
Waga Machi
Series · 1992
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Film · 1991
Takeda Shingen
Film · 1991
Baian the Assassin
Series · 1991
Baian the Assassin
Film · 1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Series · 1990
Musuko no Gokikan
Series · 1990
Oda Nobunaga
Series · 1989
Commando Invasion
Film · 1987
Masamune Shogun
Series · 1987
The Making of "Tampopo"
Film · 1986
The Sea and Poison
Film · 1986
Hanekonma
Series · 1986
Tampopo
Film · 1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery
Film · 1985
MacArthur's Children
Film · 1984
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Series · 1984