As Actor
Kokuho
2025
9.3
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Birth date
October 21, 1959
Birth place
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
Featured in
As Actor
All Lives
2024
6.7
As Actor
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
8.0
As Actor
The Creator
2023
7.0
As Actor
Fukushima 50
2020
6.5
As Actor
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
6.7
As Actor
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
6.9
As Actor
Bel Canto
2018
5.4
As Actor
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
7.7
As Actor
Godzilla
2014
6.4
As Actor
Unforgiven
2013
7.0
As Actor
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012
6.0
As Actor
A School Behind Bars
2010
10.0
As Actor
Inception
2010
8.4
As Actor
Shanghai
2010
6.1
As Actor
The Unbroken
2009
6.7
As Actor
Earth
2007
7.6
As Actor
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
7.5
As Actor
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
6.0
As Actor
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
7.7