Ken Watanabe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 21 Oct 1959 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known for
Inception201085Pop Score out of 100
Batman Begins200582Pop Score out of 100
Godzilla201468Pop Score out of 100
Transformers: Age of Extinction201443Pop Score out of 100
The Last Samurai200372Pop Score out of 100
Pokémon Detective Pikachu201963Pop Score out of 100
Godzilla: King of the Monsters201959Pop Score out of 100
Transformers: The Last Knight201737Pop Score out of 100
Filmography
- 2026Samurai Vengeanceas Kinji Shinoda
- 2026Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: KeishoTVas 東雲朔太郎 · 9 episodes
- 2026The Secret Lives of Kyoto FolkTVas 東雲朔太郎 · 9 episodes
- 2025The Final Pieceas Shigeyoshi Toumyo
- 2025Alice in BorderlandTVas Old Gentleman · 1 episode