Acting credits
99
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.9
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Movies: 70Series: 30Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 3899
IMDb ID: nm0913822
Known for: Acting
Born: October 21, 1959
Age: 66
Place of birth: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1984 - 2026
Years active: 43
Average TMDB rating: 7.02
Wikidata: Q211553
Also known as
渡邊謙 • 渡辺 謙 • کِن واتانابه • ک ِن واتانابه • Kensaku Watanabe • Ken Watanabe
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)Producer (1)Production Manager (1)
Biography
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ken Watanabe.
as Kinji Shinoda
Samurai Vengeance
2026 • Movie
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
The Final Piece
2025 • Movie
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025 • Movie
as Hanjiro Hanai
Kokuho
2025 • Movie
All Lives
2024 • Movie
as Kensuke (voice)
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 • Movie
as Self
True Love: Making The Creator
2023 • Movie
as Harun
The Creator
2023 • Movie
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 • Movie
as Masao Yoshida
Fukushima 50
2020 • Movie
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 • Movie
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 • Movie
as Ono Masuji
An Artist of the Floating World
2019 • Movie
as The King of Siam
The King and I
2018 • Movie
as Katsumi Hosokawa
Bel Canto
2018 • Movie
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Isle of Dogs
2018 • Movie
as Father
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018 • Movie
as Drift (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 • Movie
as Restaurant Patron
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017 • Movie
as Taro Miura
The Memories of Happiness
2017 • Movie
as Yohei Maki
Rage
2016 • Movie
as Takumi Nakamura
The Sea of Trees
2016 • Movie
as Self
Evolution Within Extinction
2014 • Movie
as Reiji Kurata
Snow Jack
2014 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ken Watanabe.
as 東雲朔太郎 • 9 eps
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026 • Series
as Tamema Okitsugu • 48 eps
Unbound
2025 • Series
as Taichirou Tsujimura • 9 eps
TRUE COLORS
2025 • Series
as Hiroto Katagiri • 18 eps
Tokyo Vice
2022 • Series
as Old Gentleman • 1 eps
Alice in Borderland
2020 • Series
2 eps
Toubousha
2020 • Series
as Shimazu Nariakira • 17 eps
Segodon
2018 • Series
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 • Series
as 키자키 슈지 • 1 eps
五年目のひとり
2016 • Series
as 東雲朔太郎 • 9 eps
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 • Series
as Takamura Kouji • 1 eps
Back of Father
2014 • Series
as Regular • 1 eps
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011 • Series
as Shuichiro Imanishi • 11 eps
Vessel of Sand
2004 • Series
6 eps
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003 • Series
4 eps
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 • Series
6 eps
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002 • Series
as Hojo Tokiyori • 49 eps
Hojo Tokimune
2001 • Series
as Yokoyama • 11 eps
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000 • Series
4 eps
Shimei Tehai
1998 • Series
as Zankuro Matsudaira • 8 eps
Gokenin Zankuro
1995 • Series
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo • 35 eps
The Fire Still Burns
1993 • Series
1 eps
Kagi-shi
1993 • Series
10 eps
Waga Machi
1992 • Series
1 eps
Izakaya Chōji
1992 • Series