Ken Watanabe

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 21, 1959 (65 years old)

Ken Watanabe

Known For

盤上の向日葵
Movie 2025

盤上の向日葵

Kokuho
2h 54m
Movie 2025

Kokuho

Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent times, but his talent as a kabuki actor blossoms.

Unbound
TV Show 2025

Unbound

In 18th-century Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo rises from a poor background to become a leading publisher. Despite political changes threatening his career, he works to shape Edo’s cultural scene through innovative books and collaborations with artists.

TRUE COLORS
TV Show 2025

TRUE COLORS

A top fashion photographer who, after being diagnosed with a life-altering illness, must overcome overwhelming challenges and find hope and strength in her journey of transformation.

All Lives
1h 49m
Movie 2024

All Lives

TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little time left to live, as they travel around the world in search of answers to the eternal questions of what people live for and what they leave behind.

Kensuke's Kingdom
1h 24m
Movie 2024

Kensuke's Kingdom

A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Michael and his dog overboard. After washing up on a remote island, terrified, they struggle to survive and adjust to life alone, One day, Michael discovers he is not alone when he is confronted by a mysterious Japanese man who has lived there secretly since World War II, angry that Michael has arrived. However, as dangerous invaders threaten their fragile island paradise, Michael and the old man, Kensuke, join forces to save their secret world.

True Love: Making The Creator
0h 55m
Movie 2023

True Love: Making The Creator

Join director Gareth Edwards and crew for nearly an hour look behind the scenes. Hear from actors about the filming experience, and learn about the production's documentary-style approach, the innovative camera and lighting work, and much more.

The Creator
2h 14m
Movie 2023

The Creator

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

Tokyo Vice
TV Show 2022

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Toubousha
2h 0m
TV Show 2020

Toubousha

A remake of the American show "The Fugitive."

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.

Acting

2025
盤上の向日葵
2025
Kokuho
2025
Unbound
2025
TRUE COLORS
2024
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2023
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
The Creator
2022
Tokyo Vice
2020
Toubousha
2020
劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
2018
Bel Canto
2018
Isle of Dogs
2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2017
The Memories of Happiness
2016
五年目のひとり
2016
Rage
2014
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Snow Jack
2013
Unforgiven
2011
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
2010
Inception
2004
Vessel of Sand
2003
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」
2002
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
2001
Hojo Tokimune
2000
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
1998
Shimei Tehai
1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1993
The Fire Still Burns
1993
Kagi-shi
1993
Hanzo, the Razor
1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
Waga Machi
1992
Izakaya Chōji
1992
Oda Nobunaga
1992
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1991
Baian the Assassin
1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1990
Baian the Assassin
1990
Musuko no Gokikan
1989
Oda Nobunaga
1987
Masamune Shogun
1987
Commando Invasion
1986
The Sea and Poison
1986
Hanekonma
1986
The Making of "Tampopo"
1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery

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