Ken Watanabe
Acting
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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Ken Watanabe
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Filmography of
Ken Watanabe
Kinji Shinoda
... 2026
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
... 2025
Hanjiro
... 2025
... 2024
Kensuke (voice)
... 2024
... 2023
Harun
... 2023
... 2020
Masao Yoshida
... 2020
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
... 2019
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
... 2019
Ono Masuji
... 2019
The King of Siam
... 2018
Katsumi Hosokawa
... 2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
... 2018
Father
... 2018
Drift (voice)
... 2017
Restaurant Patron
... 2017
Taro Miura
... 2017
Yohei Maki
... 2016
Takumi Nakamura
... 2016
... 2014
Reiji Kurata
... 2014
Drift (voice)
... 2014
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
... 2014
Jubee Kamata
... 2013
Junichiro Kawaguchi
... 2012
... 2010
Saito
... 2010
Tanaka
... 2010
... 2009
Hajime Onchi
... 2009
Narrator (voice)
... 2007
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
... 2006
Masayuki Saeki
... 2006
Chairman
... 2005
Ra's al Ghul
... 2005
Komatsubara Hideaki
... 2005
Moritsugu Katsumoto
... 2003
Fujimaki Hiroaki
... 2003
Masanobu Azuma
... 2003
... 2002
Miyota
... 2001
Ishida
... 2000
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
... 2000
Detective Sako Akio
... 1998
Raita Onuki
... 1997
Dr. Baian
... 1993
... 1993
Mochizuki Koheita
... 1992
... 1992
... 1992
Ryoma Sakamoto
... 1991
Dr. Baian
... 1990
... 1987
Toda
... 1986
... 1986
Gun
... 1985
... 1985
Tetsuo Nakai
... 1984
