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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 21, 1959
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Also Known As
- 渡邊謙
- 渡辺 謙
- کِن واتانابه
- ک ِن واتانابه
Ken Watanabe
4.3 Popularity
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
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Kinji Shinoda
Revenge in Kobikicho
2026
9.4
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
The Final Piece
2025
🎬
0.0
The Cartier Panther
2025
8.6
Hanjiro Hanai
Kokuho
2025
9.3
Tamema Okitsugu
Unbound
2025
8.0
Taichirou Tsujimura
TRUE COLORS
2025
6.7
All Lives
2024
7.2
Kensuke (voice)
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
8.0
Self
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
7.0
Harun
The Creator
2023
Credits
Revenge in Kobikicho
as Kinji Shinoda
2026
0.0
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
2025
9.4
🎬
The Cartier Panther
2025
0.0
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
2025
8.6
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
2025
9.3
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
2025
8.0
All Lives
2024
6.7
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
2024
7.2
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
2023
8.0
The Creator
as Harun
2023
7.0
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
2022
7.9
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
2020
8.1
Toubousha
2020
7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
7.0
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
2020
6.5
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
6.7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
6.9
An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
2019
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The King and I
as The King of Siam
2018
7.0
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
5.4
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
7.8
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
2018
5.4
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
2018
8.3
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter
2017
9.0
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
2017
6.1
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
2017
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The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
2017
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五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지
2016
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Rage
as Yohei Maki
2016
6.8
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
2016
6.2
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
2014
7.7
Snow Jack
as Reiji Kurata
2014
0.0
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
2014
8.0
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
2014
6.0
Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014
6.4
Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
2013
7.0
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
2012
6.0
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Regular
2011
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Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
0.0
A School Behind Bars
2010
10.0
Inception
as Saito
2010
8.4
Shanghai
as Tanaka
2010
6.1
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
2009
5.8
The Unbroken
as Hajime Onchi
2009
6.7
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刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
0.0
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
2007
7.6
星ひとつの夜
as Nonoyama Hiroji
2007
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
as Self
2007
0.0
Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
2006
7.5
Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki Saeki
2006
6.0
Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
2005
7.6
Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
2005
7.7
Year One in the North
as Komatsubara Hideaki
2005
4.9
Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi
2004
4.0
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
0.0
The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
2003
7.6
第三の時効
2003
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
2003
0.0
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藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
0.0
T.R.Y.
as Masanobu Azuma
2003
7.0
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
0.0
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
0.0
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強行犯捜査第七係
2002
0.0
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Okubo
2002
7.0
Drowning Fish
as Miyota
2001
7.0
Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori
2001
0.0
The Whispered City
as Ishida
2000
9.0
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
2000
7.4
Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
2000
5.9
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Shimei Tehai
1998
0.0
Bonds
as Detective Sako Akio
1998
4.4
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita Onuki
1997
7.6
Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira
1995
8.0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. Baian
1993
0.0
The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
1993
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Kagi-shi
1993
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Hanzo, the Razor
1993
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki Koheita
1992
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Waga Machi
1992
0.0
Izakaya Chōji
1992
0.0
Oda Nobunaga
1992
8.0
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Kojirō
1992
8.5
Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda Baian
1991
10.0
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma Sakamoto
1991
7.0
Baian the Assassin
as Dr. Baian
1990
0.0
Musuko no Gokikan
1990
0.0
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
9.5
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Oda Nobunaga
1989
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Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
1987
9.2
Commando Invasion
1987
6.2
The Sea and Poison
as Toda
1986
6.9
Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
1986
8.0
The Making of "Tampopo"
as Self
1986
0.0
Tampopo
as Gun
1985
7.8
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
8.2
MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo Nakai
1984
5.0
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984
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