Ken Watanabe

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

Oct 21, 1959(65 years old)

Place of Birth

Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Transalations

English,

French,

German,

Spanish,

Mandarin,

Portuguese,

Vietnamese,

Korean,

Mandarin,

Russian,

Japanese,

Persian,

Ukrainian,

Mandarin,

Greek,

Czech,

Slovak,

French,

Mandarin,

Hebrew

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 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.

Known For

77%

Batman Begins

10 Jun 2005

75%

Letters from Iwo Jima

09 Dec 2006

76%

The Last Samurai

05 Dec 2003

79%

Tampopo

23 Nov 1985

59%

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

23 Oct 2009

84%

Inception

15 Jul 2010

61%

Shanghai

10 Jun 2010

70%

T.R.Y.

11 Jan 2003

59%

Space Travelers

08 Apr 2000

第三の時効

70%

The Creator

27 Sep 2023

70%

Unforgiven

13 Sep 2013

63%

Godzilla

14 May 2014

60%

Memories of Tomorrow

13 May 2006

The Making of "Tampopo"

01 Jan 1986

70%

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

31 Oct 2020

67%

The Unbroken

23 Oct 2009

100%

A School Behind Bars

11 Oct 2010

49%

Year One in the North

14 Jan 2005

60%

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

11 Feb 2012

70%

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

16 Jun 2002

76%

Earth

10 Oct 2007

59%

Transformers: Age of Extinction

25 Jun 2014

80%

True Love: Making The Creator

14 Nov 2023

90%

The Whispered City

07 Jul 2000

70%

Drowning Fish

03 Feb 2001

69%

The Sea and Poison

17 Oct 1986

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

28 Jan 2017

55%

MacArthur's Children

23 Jun 1984

77%

Evolution Within Extinction

30 Sep 2014

Hanzo, the Razor

01 Jan 1993

67%

All Lives

06 May 2024

61%

Transformers: The Last Knight

16 Jun 2017

Snow Jack

02 Aug 2014

69%

Rage

17 Sep 2016

85%

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

01 Jan 1992

82%

Kekkon Annai Mystery

15 Jun 1985

62%

The Sea of Trees

27 Apr 2016

62%

Commando Invasion

01 Jan 1987

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

01 Jan 2011

80%

Oda Nobunaga

05 Jan 1992

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

23 Dec 1992

67%

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

29 May 2019

69%

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

03 May 2019

78%

Isle of Dogs

23 Mar 2018

54%

Bel Canto

13 Sep 2018

65%

Fukushima 50

06 Mar 2020

The Memories of Happiness

08 Jan 2017

70%

The King and I

29 Nov 2018

68%

Kensuke's Kingdom

07 Feb 2024

52%

Bonds

06 Jun 1998

76%

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

08 Nov 1997

Baian the Assassin

26 Dec 1990

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

06 Oct 1993

77%

Memoirs of a Geisha

06 Dec 2005

54%

7 Guardians of the Tomb

19 Jan 2018

Another Battle/Conspiracy

15 Feb 2003

An Artist of the Floating World

30 Mar 2019

70%

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

06 Jul 1991

90%

Kokuho

06 Jun 2025

盤上の向日葵

31 Oct 2025

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

22 May 2007

78%

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Kagi-shi

Oda Nobunaga

40%

Vessel of Sand

95%

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

90%

NHK WORLD PRIME

横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)

92%

Masamune Shogun

83%

Segodon

強行犯捜査第七係

Izakaya Chōji

80%

Gokenin Zankuro

Waga Machi

79%

Tokyo Vice

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

100%

Baian the Assassin

五年目のひとり

Shimei Tehai

80%

Back of Father

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」

80%

Hanekonma

Hojo Tokimune

The Fire Still Burns

70%

Toubousha

Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo

Musuko no Gokikan

91%

Unbound

70%

TRUE COLORS

A Tale of Two Truncheons