Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born October 21, 1959
From Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also known as 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه
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 nomina...
Filmography
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
20268.8
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
20259.4
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
20257.8
All Lives
20246.7
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
20247.2
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
20236.3
The Creator
Harun
20237.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
20207.0
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
20206.5
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
20196.7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
20196.9
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
2019
The King and I
The King of Siam
20187.0
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
20185.5
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
20187.8
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
20185.3
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
20176.1
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
2017
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
2017
Rage
Yohei Maki
20166.9
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
20166.2
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
20147.7
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
20146.0
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
20146.4
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
20137.0
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
20126.4
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
A School Behind Bars
201010.0
Inception
Saito
20108.4
Shanghai
Tanaka
20106.1
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
20095.9
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
20096.7
ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
2008
Earth
Narrator (voice)
20077.6
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji
2007
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
2007
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
20067.5
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
20066.1
Memoirs of a Geisha
Le président
20057.6
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
20057.7
Ashes and Snow
Japanese Narrator (voice)
20057.3
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
20055.7
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
20037.6
第三の時効
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
2003
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
20037.2
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
20028.0
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
20015.9
Drowning Fish
Miyota
20017.7
The Whispered City
Ishida
20009.0
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
20006.1
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
19985.6
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
19977.7
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
1993
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
1992
Oda Nobunaga
19928.0
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
19928.5
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
19917.5
Takeda Shingen
Narrator
199110.0
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
1990
Commando Invasion
19876.8
The Sea and Poison
Toda
19867.1
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
1986
Tampopo
Gun
19857.8
Kekkon Annai Mystery
19858.8
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
19845.5