Ken Watanabe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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- Born:
- Oct 21, 1959 In Koide, Niigata, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 50
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance 1980-08-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie True Love: Making 'The Creator' 2023-11-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | True Love: Making 'The Creator' | Self | 2023-11-14 |
| Movie | The Creator | Harun | 2023-09-27 |
| Movie | Godzilla vs. Kong | Bar Patron (uncredited) | 2021-03-24 |
| Movie | An Artist of the Floating World | Ono Masuji | 2019-03-30 |
| Movie | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2019-05-29 |
| Movie | 7 Guardians of the Tomb | Father | 2018-01-19 |
| Movie | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
| Movie | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | 2017-06-16 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Asgardian Noble | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | Rage | Yohei Maki | 2016-09-17 |
| Movie | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | 2014-06-25 |
| Movie | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | 2014-08-02 |
| Movie | Evolution Within Extinction | Self | 2014-09-30 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | 2013-09-13 |
| Movie | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | 2012-02-11 |
| Movie | Shanghai | Tanaka | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | Inception | Saito | 2010-07-15 |
| Movie | A School Behind Bars | 2010-10-11 | |
| Movie | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | 2006-05-13 |
| Movie | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | 2006-12-09 |
| Movie | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Geisha | Chairman | 2005-12-06 |
| Movie | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | 2003-12-05 |
| Movie | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | 2002-06-16 |
| Movie | Drowning Fish | Miyota | 2001-02-03 |
| Movie | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | 2000-04-08 |
| Series | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | 2000-04-14 |
| Movie | The Whispered City | Ishida | 2000-07-07 |
| Movie | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki | 1997-11-08 |
| Movie | Oda Nobunaga | 1992-01-05 | |
| Movie | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | 1992-12-23 |
| Movie | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Ryoma Sakamoto | 1991-07-06 |
| Movie | Karate Warrior 2 | Kimura | 1988-09-22 |
| Movie | Commando Invasion | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Karate Warrior | Maestro Kimura | 1987-09-03 |
| Movie | The Making of "Tampopo" | Self | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Sea and Poison | Toda | 1986-10-17 |
| Movie | Kekkon Annai Mystery | 1985-06-15 | |
| Movie | Double Edge | Yoshiro | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Tampopo | Gun | 1985-11-23 |
| Movie | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | 1984-06-23 |
| Movie | Ninja's Force | 1984-09-07 | |
| Movie | Invaders of the Lost Gold | Lt. Toyoda | 1982-09-20 |
| Movie | Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance | Samurai Master | 1980-08-22 |