Ken Watanabe
Acting Born 1959 Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
108 credits
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 the full biography
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Samurai Vengeance
2026
as Kinji Shinoda
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Series Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
as 東雲朔太郎
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The Final Piece
2025
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
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LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
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Kokuho
2025
as Hanjiro Hanai
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Series TRUE COLORS
2025
as Taichirou Tsujimura
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Series Unbound
2025
as Tamema Okitsugu
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All Lives
2024
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Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
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True Love: Making The Creator
2023
as Self
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The Creator
2023
as Harun
- Community scoreSeries
Tokyo Vice
2022
as Hiroto Katagiri
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Acting
105 credits
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Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
as 東雲朔太郎
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Samurai Vengeance
2026
as Kinji Shinoda
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Kokuho
2025
as Hanjiro Hanai
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LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
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The Final Piece
2025
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
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TRUE COLORS
2025
as Taichirou Tsujimura
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Unbound
2025
as Tamema Okitsugu
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All Lives
2024
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Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
- Community score
The Creator
2023
as Harun
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True Love: Making The Creator
2023
as Self
- Community scoreSeries
Tokyo Vice
2022
as Hiroto Katagiri
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Series Alice in Borderland
2020
as Old Gentleman
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Fukushima 50
2020
as Masao Yoshida
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Series Toubousha
2020
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劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
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An Artist of the Floating World
2019
as Ono Masuji
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
as Father
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Bel Canto
2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa
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Isle of Dogs
2018
as Head Surgeon (voice)
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Series Segodon
2018
as Shimazu Nariakira
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The King and I
2018
as The King of Siam
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
as Restaurant Patron
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Series NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
as Self - Presenter
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The Memories of Happiness
2017
as Taro Miura
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Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Drift (voice)
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Rage
2016
as Yohei Maki
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The Sea of Trees
2016
as Takumi Nakamura
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Series 五年目のひとり
2016
as 키자키 슈지
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Series The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
as 東雲朔太郎
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Series Back of Father
2014
as Takamura Kouji
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Evolution Within Extinction
2014
as Self
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Godzilla
2014
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Snow Jack
2014
as Reiji Kurata
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Drift (voice)
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Unforgiven
2013
as Jubee Kamata
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
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Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
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Series Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
as Regular
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A School Behind Bars
2010
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Inception
2010
as Saito
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Shanghai
2010
as Tanaka
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
as Mr. Tall
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The Unbroken
2009
as Hajime Onchi
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刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
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ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
2008
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Earth
2007
as Narrator (voice)
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
as Self
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星ひとつの夜
2007
as Nonoyama Hiroji
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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Memories of Tomorrow
2006
as Masayuki Saeki
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Ashes and Snow
2005
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
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Batman Begins
2005
as Ra's al Ghul
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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Le président
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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Chairman
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Year One in the North
2005
as Komatsubara Hideaki
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Series Vessel of Sand
2004
as Shuichiro Imanishi
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
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The Last Samurai
2003
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
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T.R.Y.
2003
as Masanobu Azuma
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Series 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
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第三の時効
2003
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藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
as Okubo
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Series Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
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強行犯捜査第七係
2002
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Series 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
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Drowning Fish
2001
as Miyota
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Series Hojo Tokimune
2001
as Hojo Tokiyori
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Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
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Proof of the Man 2001
2001
as Munesue Koichiro
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Series Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
as Yokoyama
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Space Travelers
2000
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
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The Whispered City
2000
as Ishida
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Bonds
1998
as Detective Sako Akio
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Shimei Tehai
1998
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
as Raita Onuki
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Series Gokenin Zankuro
1995
as Zankuro Matsudaira
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
as Dr. Baian
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Hanzo, the Razor
1993
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Series Kagi-shi
1993
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Series The Fire Still Burns
1993
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
as Mochizuki Koheita
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
as Kojirō
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Series Izakaya Chōji
1992
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Oda Nobunaga
1992
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Series Waga Machi
1992
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
as Ryoma Sakamoto
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Series Baian the Assassin
1991
as Fujieda Baian
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Takeda Shingen
1991
as Narrator
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Baian the Assassin
1990
as Dr. Baian
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Series Musuko no Gokikan
1990
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Series Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
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Oda Nobunaga
1989
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Commando Invasion
1987
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Series Masamune Shogun
1987
as 伊達政宗
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Series Hanekonma
1986
as Genzo Onodera
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The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
as Self
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The Sea and Poison
1986
as Toda
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
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Tampopo
1985
as Gun
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Series A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984
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MacArthur's Children
1984
as Tetsuo Nakai
Production
3 credits
- Community scoreSeries
Tokyo Vice
2022
Executive Producer
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Memories of Tomorrow
2006
Executive Producer
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Harimao
1989
Producer