Ken Watanabe
Acting
Born: 1959-10-21 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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 i
🎬 Movies (20)
Samurai Vengeance
2026
Kinji Shinoda
The Final Piece
2025
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
2025
Hanjiro Hanai
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
Self
The Creator
2023
Harun
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2020
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
Ono Masuji
The King and I
2018
The King of Siam
Bel Canto
2018
Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs
2018
Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018
Father
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness
2017
Taro Miura
📺 TV Shows (20)
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
東雲朔太郎
Unbound
2025
Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
2025
Taichirou Tsujimura
Tokyo Vice
2022
Hiroto Katagiri
Alice in Borderland
2020
Old Gentleman
Toubousha
2020
Segodon
2018
Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
Self - Presenter
五年目のひとり
2016
키자키 슈지
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
東雲朔太郎
Back of Father
2014
Takamura Kouji
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
Regular
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
Vessel of Sand
2004
Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
強行犯捜査第七係
2002
Hojo Tokimune
2001
Hojo Tokiyori