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
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A School Behind Bars
2010 · Movie
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Baian the Assassin
1991 · Series
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The Final Piece
2025 · Movie
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Unbound
2025 · Series
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Samurai Vengeance
2026 · Movie
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Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · Series
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NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 · Series
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The Whispered City
2000 · Movie
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The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · Series
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Masamune Shogun
1987 · Series
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985 · Movie
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Segodon
2018 · Series
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Inception
2010 · Movie
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992 · Movie
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Alice in Borderland
2020 · Series
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TRUE COLORS
2025 · Series
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True Love: Making The Creator
2023 · Movie
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Kokuho
2025 · Movie
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Back of Father
2014 · Series
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Tokyo Vice
2022 · Series
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Isle of Dogs
2018 · Movie
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002 · Movie
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Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 · Series
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Hojo Tokimune
2001 · Series
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Gokenin Zankuro
1995 · Series
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Oda Nobunaga
1992 · Movie
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Harimao
1989 · Movie
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Hanekonma
1986 · Series
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Evolution Within Extinction
2014 · Movie
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Batman Begins
2005 · Movie
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Drowning Fish
2001 · Movie
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Earth
2007 · Movie
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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · Movie
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997 · Movie
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Tampopo
1985 · Movie
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The Last Samurai
2003 · Movie
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · Movie
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Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 · Movie
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991 · Movie
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000 · Series
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The Creator
2023 · Movie
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Ashes and Snow
2005 · Movie
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劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 · Movie
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Toubousha
2020 · Series
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T.R.Y.
2003 · Movie
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The King and I
2018 · Movie
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Unforgiven
2013 · Movie
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · Movie