Ken Watanabe
Age: 64 | From: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Person Details
Birthday: 1959-10-21 23:15:03
Aliases: 渡辺謙 , 와타나베 켄 , Кэн Ватанабэ
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 42
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
The Creator
(2023) Harun
Inception
(2010) Saito
Tokyo Vice
(2022) Hiroto Katagiri
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
(2019) Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla
(2014) Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Batman Begins
(2005) Decoy Ra's al Ghul
Transformers: Age of Extinction
(2014) Drift (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
(2017) Drift (voice)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kensuke | |
| 2023 | Self | |
| Harun | ||
| 2022 | Hiroto Katagiri | |
| 2020 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Masao Yoshida | ||
| 2019 | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | |
| Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | ||
| Ono Masuji | ||
| 2018 | The King of Siam | |
| Katsumi Hosokawa | ||
| Head Surgeon (voice) | ||
| Father | ||
| Shimazu Nariakira | ||
| 2017 | Self - Presenter | |
| Drift (voice) | ||
| Restaurant Patron | ||
| Taro Miura | ||
| 2016 | Yohei Maki | |
| Takumi Nakamura | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Reiji Kurata | ||
| Takamura Kouji | ||
| Drift (voice) | ||
| Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | ||
| 2013 | Jubee Kamata | |
| 2012 | Junichiro Kawaguchi | |
| 2011 | Regular | |
| 2010 | N/A | |
| Saito | ||
| Tanaka | ||
| 2009 | Mr. Tall | |
| Hajime Onchi | ||
| 2007 | Narrator | |
| 2006 | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | |
| Masayuki Saeki | ||
| 2005 | Chairman | |
| Decoy Ra's al Ghul | ||
| Komatsubara Hideaki | ||
| 2004 | N/A | |
| 2003 | N/A | |
| Moritsugu Katsumoto | ||
| Fujimaki Hiroaki | ||
| Masanobu Azuma | ||
| 2002 | N/A | |
| Okubo | ||
| 2001 | Miyota | |
| Hojo Tokiyori | ||
| 2000 | Ishida | |
| Yokoyama | ||
| Sakamaki ("Crusher") | ||
| 1998 | Detective Sako Akio | |
| 1997 | Raita Onuki | |
| 1995 | Zankuro Matsudaira | |
| 1993 | Dr. Baian | |
| Fujiwara Tsunekiyo | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1992 | Mochizuki Koheita | |
| Kojiro | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Fujieda Baian | |
| Ryoma Sakamoto | ||
| 1990 | Dr. Baian | |
| N/A | ||
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1987 | 伊達政宗 | |
| N/A | ||
| 1986 | Toda | |
| Genzo Onodera | ||
| Self | ||
| 1985 | Gun | |
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Tetsuo Nakai | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
