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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Birthday: 1959-10-21 | Place of Birth: Koide, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Kokuho

as    Hanjiro

2025
TRUE COLORS

as    Taichirou Tsujimura

2025
Unbound

as    Tamema Okitsugu

2024
Kensuke's Kingdom

as    Kensuke (voice)

2023
The Creator

as    Harun

2023
2022
Tokyo Vice

as    Hiroto Katagiri

2020
Fukushima 50

as    Masao Yoshida

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu

as    Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

2019
An Artist of the Floating World

as    Ono Masuji

2018
Bel Canto

as    Katsumi Hosokawa

2018
The King and I

as    The King of Siam

2017
The Memories of Happiness

as    Taro Miura

2016
Tampopo

as    Gun

2016
The Sea of Trees

as    Takumi Nakamura

2016
Rage

as    Yohei Maki

2016
五年目のひとり

as    키자키 슈지

2014
Godzilla

as    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2014
Snow Jack

as    Reiji Kurata

2014
2013
Unforgiven

as    Jubee Kamata

2012
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

as    Junichiro Kawaguchi