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Ken Watanabe

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1959-10-21 (65 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 95

Movies 65

TV Shows 30

Voice 5

self 5

Ken Watanabe

Biography

Filmography

all 95

Movies 65

TV Shows 30

Voice 5

self 5

Producer 2

Narrator 1

盤上の向日葵 (2025)

National Treasure (2025)

Unbound (2025)

TRUE COLORS (2025)

All Lives (2024)

Kensuke's Kingdom (2024)

True Love: Making The Creator (2023)

The Creator (2023)

Tokyo Vice (2022)

Toubousha (2020)

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 (2020)

Fukushima 50 (2020)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

An Artist of the Floating World (2019)

The King and I (2018)

Bel Canto (2018)

Isle of Dogs (2018)

7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)

Segodon (2018)

NHK WORLD PRIME (2017)

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween (2017)

The Memories of Happiness (2017)

五年目のひとり (2016)

Rage (2016)

The Sea of Trees (2016)

Evolution Within Extinction (2014)

Godzilla: Force of Nature (2014)

Snow Jack (2014)

Back of Father (2014)

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Godzilla (2014)

Unforgiven (2013)

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)

Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo (2011)

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - (2011)

A School Behind Bars (2010)

Inception (2010)

Shanghai (2010)

Clouds Over the Hill (2009)

The Unbroken (2009)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Earth (2007)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Memories of Tomorrow (2006)

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Batman Begins (2005)

Ashes and Snow (2005)

Year One in the North (2005)

Vessel of Sand (2004)

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 (2003)

The Last Samurai (2003)

Another Battle/Conspiracy (2003)

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」 (2003)

T.R.Y. (2003)

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko (2002)

横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) (2002)

強行犯捜査第七係 (2002)

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)

Drowning Fish (2001)

Hojo Tokimune (2001)

The Whispered City (2000)

Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000)

Space Travelers (2000)

Shimei Tehai (1998)

Bonds (1998)

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

Gokenin Zankuro (1995)

Baian the Assassin: Showdown (1993)

横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS) (2002)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1959-10-21 (65 years old)

Birth Name
Kensaku Watanabe

Birth Place
Uonuma, Japan

Height
184-centimeter

Relationships
Kaho Minami (2005 - 2018)

Children
Dai Watanabe, Anne Watanabe

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
渡邊謙, 渡辺謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه

Awards
Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor