Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born 1959-10-21 · 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
Hanekonma
1986 · TV
Masamune Shogun
1987 · TV
Unbound
2025 · TV
Hojo Tokimune
2001 · TV
The Fire Still Burns
1993 · TV
Tokyo Vice
2022 · TV
Segodon
2018 · TV
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000 · TV
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · TV
Vessel of Sand
2004 · TV
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984 · TV
TRUE COLORS
2025 · TV
Gokenin Zankuro
1995 · TV
Waga Machi
1992 · TV
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · TV
Baian the Assassin
1991 · TV
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026 · TV
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003 · TV
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002 · TV
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 · TV
Toubousha
2020 · TV
Alice in Borderland
2020 · TV
Musuko no Gokikan
1990 · TV
Back of Father
2014 · TV
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 · TV
五年目のひとり
2016 · TV
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011 · TV
Izakaya Chōji
1992 · TV
Kagi-shi
1993 · TV