Ken Watanabe
Born in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan — Oct 21 1959
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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 H…
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Inception
Saito
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Alice in Borderland
Old Gentleman
Tokyo Vice
Hiroto Katagiri
Batman Begins
Ra's al Ghul
Segodon
Shimazu Nariakira
The Creator
Harun
Back of Father
Takamura Kouji
The Last Samurai
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Hanekonma
Genzo Onodera
Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Masamune Shogun
伊達政宗
Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
東雲朔太郎
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Yokoyama
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
Tampopo
Gun
Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Unbound
Tamema Okitsugu
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Presenter
Memoirs of a Geisha
Le président
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira
TRUE COLORS
Taichirou Tsujimura
The Fire Still Burns
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tall
Rage
Yohei Maki
A Tale of Two Truncheons
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
東雲朔太郎
Shanghai
Tanaka
Waga Machi
Vessel of Sand
Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Unforgiven
Jubee Kamata
Oda Nobunaga
Space Travelers
Sakamaki ("Crusher")
Hojo Tokimune
Hojo Tokiyori
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
T.R.Y.
Masanobu Azuma
The Unbroken
Hajime Onchi
The Sea and Poison
Toda
The Whispered City
Ishida
The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
Toubousha
Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian
An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
Memories of Tomorrow
Masayuki Saeki
Shimei Tehai
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Ryoma Sakamoto
The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
Year One in the North
Komatsubara Hideaki
Drowning Fish
Miyota
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
Okubo
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Raita Onuki
Snow Jack
Reiji Kurata
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Dr. Baian
Takeda Shingen
Narrator
Bonds
Detective Sako Akio
Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
Earth
Narrator (voice)
MacArthur's Children
Tetsuo Nakai
Hanzo, the Razor
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Fujimaki Hiroaki
Harimao
Production
五年目のひとり
키자키 슈지
Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
All Lives
Musuko no Gokikan
Izakaya Chōji
Baian the Assassin
Dr. Baian
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
Regular
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Kojirō
Kagi-shi
第三の時効
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Junichiro Kawaguchi
True Love: Making The Creator
Self
Kekkon Annai Mystery
A School Behind Bars
The King and I
The King of Siam
The Making of "Tampopo"
Self
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Mochizuki Koheita
The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
Oda Nobunaga
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Self
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
星ひとつの夜
Nonoyama Hiroji
強行犯捜査第七係
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
Commando Invasion