10.0
10.0
A School Behind Bars
2010
Ken Watanabe
Also known as: Watanabe Ken, Kensaku Watanabe
Nationality:Japan
Height:6'0" (184 cm)
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Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken; born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor. He is best 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, Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for The Unbroken. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. In 2014, he starred in the reboot Godzilla as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a role he reprised in the sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. He lent his voice to the fourth and fifth installments of the Transformers franchise respectively, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight, as Decepticon-turned-Autobot Drift. In 2022, he starred in the HBO Max crime drama series Tokyo Vice. He made his Broadway debut in April 2015 in Lincoln Center Theater's revival production of The King and I in the title role. In 2015, Watanabe received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 69th Tony Awards for his role as The King. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category. Watanabe reprised his role at the London Palladium in June 2018, earning a Laurence Olivier Award nomination.
Notable Works
TampopoThe Sea and PoisonThe Last SamuraiMemoirs of a Geisha
Filmography (65 movies)
9.8
9.8
The Final Piece
2025
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
9.0
9.0
The Whispered City
2000
as Ishida
8.5
8.5
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1992
as Kojirō
8.4
8.4
Inception
2010
as Saito
8.2
8.2
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
8.0
8.0
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
as Self
8.0
8.0
Oda Nobunaga
1992
8.0
8.0
Harimao
1989
Producer
7.8
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Head Surgeon (voice)
7.8
7.8
Tampopo
1985
as Gun
7.8
7.8
Kokuho
2025
as Hanjiro Hanai
7.7
7.7
Batman Begins
2005
as Ra's al Ghul
7.7
7.7
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
as Self
7.7
7.7
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Chairman
7.6
7.6
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
as Raita Onuki
7.6
7.6
Earth
2007
as Narrator (voice)
7.6
7.6
The Last Samurai
2003
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
7.5
7.5
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
7.2
7.2
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
7.0
7.0
The Creator
2023
as Harun
7.0
7.0
Drowning Fish
2001
as Miyota
7.0
7.0
T.R.Y.
2003
as Masanobu Azuma
7.0
7.0
Unforgiven
2013
as Jubee Kamata
7.0
7.0
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002
as Okubo
7.0
7.0
The King and I
2018
as The King of Siam
7.0
7.0
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991
as Ryoma Sakamoto
7.0
7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
6.9
6.9
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
6.9
6.9
The Sea and Poison
1986
as Toda
6.8
6.8
Rage
2016
as Yohei Maki
6.7
6.7
All Lives
2024
6.7
6.7
The Unbroken
2009
as Hajime Onchi
6.7
6.7
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.5
6.5
Fukushima 50
2020
as Masao Yoshida
6.3
6.3
Godzilla
2014
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
6.2
6.2
The Sea of Trees
2016
as Takumi Nakamura
6.2
6.2
Commando Invasion
1987
6.1
6.1
Shanghai
2010
as Tanaka
6.0
6.0
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
as Masayuki Saeki
6.0
6.0
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Drift (voice)
6.0
6.0
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
5.9
5.9
Space Travelers
2000
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
5.8
5.8
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
as Mr. Tall
5.4
5.4
Bel Canto
2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa
5.4
5.4
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
as Father
5.0
5.0
MacArthur's Children
1984
as Tetsuo Nakai
4.9
4.9
Year One in the North
2005
as Komatsubara Hideaki
4.4
4.4
Bonds
1998
as Detective Sako Akio
Another Battle/Conspiracy
2003
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
as Restaurant Patron
Hanzo, the Razor
1993
The Memories of Happiness
2017
as Taro Miura
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
as Self
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2011
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
as Mochizuki Koheita
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
2007
as Self
Revenge in Kobikicho
2026
as Kinji Shinoda
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
星ひとつの夜
2007
as Nonoyama Hiroji
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
as Dr. Baian
Baian the Assassin
1990
as Dr. Baian
Snow Jack
2014
as Reiji Kurata
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
as Ono Masuji
第三の時効
2003
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