Acting credits
99
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Ken Watanabe
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.5
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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.
In 4 weeks
Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder -
as Self
2026 Movie
Samurai Vengeance
as Kinji Shinoda
2026 Movie
The Final Piece
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
2025 Movie
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025 Movie
Kokuho
as Hanjiro Hanai
2025 Movie
All Lives
2024 Movie
Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
2024 Movie
True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
2023 Movie
The Creator
as Harun
2023 Movie
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 Movie
Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
2020 Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019 Movie
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019 Movie
An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
2019 Movie
The King and I
as The King of Siam
2018 Movie
Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
2018 Movie
Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
2018 Movie
7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
2018 Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
2017 Movie
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
2017 Movie
The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
2017 Movie
Rage
as Yohei Maki
2016 Movie
The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
2016 Movie
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
2014 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ken Watanabe.
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
as 東雲朔太郎 • 9 eps
2026 Series
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu • 48 eps
2025 Series
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura • 9 eps
2025 Series
Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri • 18 eps
2022 Series
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman • 1 eps
2020 Series
Toubousha
2 eps
2020 Series
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira • 17 eps
2018 Series
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
2017 Series
五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지 • 1 eps
2016 Series
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎 • 9 eps
2015 Series
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji • 1 eps
2014 Series
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Regular • 1 eps
2011 Series
Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi • 11 eps
2004 Series
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
6 eps
2003 Series
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
4 eps
2002 Series
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
6 eps
2002 Series
Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori • 49 eps
2001 Series
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama • 11 eps
2000 Series
Shimei Tehai
4 eps
1998 Series
Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira • 8 eps
1995 Series
The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo • 35 eps
1993 Series
Kagi-shi
1 eps
1993 Series
Waga Machi
10 eps
1992 Series
Izakaya Chōji
1 eps
1992 Series