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