Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe Acting

21 Oct, 1959 (66) in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Ken Watanabe Acting

21 Oct, 1959 (66) in 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,... see more

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,... see more

Samurai Vengeance

Acting (Kinji Shinoda)

27/02/2026

The Final Piece

Acting (Shigeyoshi Toumyo)

31/10/2025

LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER

18/09/2025

Kokuho

Acting (Hanjiro Hanai)

06/06/2025

All Lives

06/05/2024

Kensuke's Kingdom

Acting (Kensuke (voice))

07/02/2024

True Love: Making The Creator

Acting (Self)

14/11/2023

The Creator

Acting (Harun)

27/09/2023

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

31/10/2020

Fukushima 50

Acting (Masao Yoshida)

06/03/2020

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Acting (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)

29/05/2019

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Acting (Lieutenant Hide Yoshida)

03/05/2019

An Artist of the Floating World

Acting (Ono Masuji)

30/03/2019

The King and I

Acting (The King of Siam)

29/11/2018

Bel Canto

Acting (Katsumi Hosokawa)

13/09/2018

Isle of Dogs

Acting (Head Surgeon (voice))

23/03/2018

7 Guardians of the Tomb

Acting (Father)

19/01/2018

Transformers: The Last Knight

Acting (Drift (voice))

16/06/2017

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

Acting (Restaurant Patron)

28/01/2017

The Memories of Happiness

Acting (Taro Miura)

08/01/2017

Rage

Acting (Yohei Maki)

17/09/2016

The Sea of Trees

Acting (Takumi Nakamura)

27/04/2016

Evolution Within Extinction

Acting (Self)

30/09/2014

Snow Jack

Acting (Reiji Kurata)

02/08/2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Acting (Drift (voice))

25/06/2014

Godzilla

Acting (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa)

14/05/2014

Unforgiven

Acting (Jubee Kamata)

13/09/2013

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

Acting (Junichiro Kawaguchi)

11/02/2012

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

01/01/2011

A School Behind Bars

11/10/2010

Inception

Acting (Saito)

15/07/2010

Shanghai

Acting (Tanaka)

10/06/2010

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Acting (Mr. Tall)

23/10/2009

The Unbroken

Acting (Hajime Onchi)

23/10/2009

Earth

Acting (Narrator (voice))

10/10/2007

星ひとつの夜

Acting (Nonoyama Hiroji)

25/05/2007

Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'

Acting (Self)

22/05/2007

Letters from Iwo Jima

Acting (General Tadamichi Kuribayashi)

09/12/2006

Memories of Tomorrow

Acting (Masayuki Saeki)

13/05/2006

Memoirs of a Geisha

Acting (Le président)

06/12/2005

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