Ken Watanabe

Known for ActingBorn 1959-10-21 (age 66)Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

A School Behind Bars

Baian the Assassin

The Final Piece

Unbound

Samurai Vengeance

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

NHK WORLD PRIME

The Whispered City

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

Masamune Shogun

Kekkon Annai Mystery

Segodon

Inception

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

Alice in Borderland

Kokuho

TRUE COLORS

True Love: Making The Creator

Back of Father

Tokyo Vice

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Hojo Tokimune

Isle of Dogs

Gokenin Zankuro

Oda Nobunaga

Harimao

Hanekonma

Evolution Within Extinction

Batman Begins

Drowning Fish

Earth

Memoirs of a Geisha

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

Tampopo

The Last Samurai

Letters from Iwo Jima

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Kensuke's Kingdom

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Ashes and Snow

The Creator

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

Toubousha

T.R.Y.

The King and I

Unforgiven

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Rage