Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Acting
Born 1959-10-21 Uonuma, Niigata, Japan 8 credit(s) Popularity 2.4
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 Act...
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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.

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Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho poster
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
as 東雲朔太郎
2026-01-04
Unbound poster
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
2025-01-05
TRUE COLORS poster
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
2025-01-05
Tokyo Vice poster
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
2022-04-07
Segodon poster
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
2018-01-07
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk poster
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎
2015-01-03
Back of Father poster
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
2014-07-13

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