Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. He is best 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, Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for The Unbroken. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
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🎬 Movies
Samurai Vengeance
actor
2026
The Final Piece
actor
2025
Kokuho
actor
2025
All Lives
actor
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
actor
2024
The Creator
actor
2023
Fukushima 50
actor
2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
actor
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
actor
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
actor
2019
Bel Canto
actor
2018
Isle of Dogs
actor
2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
actor
2018
The Memories of Happiness
actor
2017
Rage
actor
2016
The Sea of Trees
actor
2016
Snow Jack
actor
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
actor
2014
Godzilla
actor
2014
Unforgiven
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2013
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
actor
2012
A School Behind Bars
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2010
Inception
actor
2010
Shanghai
actor
2010
The Unbroken
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2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
actor
2009
Earth
actor
2007
Letters from Iwo Jima
actor
2006
Memories of Tomorrow
actor
2006
Memoirs of a Geisha
actor
2005
Batman Begins
actor
2005
Ashes and Snow
actor
2005
Year One in the North
actor
2005
The Last Samurai
actor
2003
第三の時効
actor
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
actor
2003
T.R.Y.
actor
2003
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
actor
2002
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
actor
2001
Drowning Fish
actor
2001
The Whispered City
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2000
Space Travelers
actor
2000
Bonds
actor
1998
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
actor
1997
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
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1993
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
actor
1992
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
actor
1991
Takeda Shingen
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1991
Baian the Assassin
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1990
The Sea and Poison
actor
1986
Tampopo
actor
1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery
actor
1985
MacArthur's Children
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1984
