Ken Watanabe
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...
Also Known As
渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه, Kensaku Watanabe
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Ken Watanabe's Movies
Inception
15 Jul 2010
Batman Begins
10 Jun 2005
Godzilla
14 May 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
25 Jun 2014
The Last Samurai
05 Dec 2003
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
03 May 2019
Transformers: The Last Knight
16 Jun 2017
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
29 May 2019
Isle of Dogs
23 Mar 2018
The Creator
27 Sept 2023
Memoirs of a Geisha
06 Dec 2005
Letters from Iwo Jima
09 Dec 2006
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
23 Oct 2009
The Sea of Trees
27 Apr 2016
Tampopo
23 Nov 1985
Earth
10 Oct 2007
7 Guardians of the Tomb
19 Jan 2018
Fukushima 50
06 Mar 2020
Shanghai
10 Jun 2010
Bel Canto
13 Sept 2018
Ken Watanabe's TV Shows
Alice in Borderland
10 Dec 2020
Tokyo Vice
07 Apr 2022
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
14 Apr 2000
Unbound
05 Jan 2025
Masamune Shogun
04 Jan 1987
Segodon
07 Jan 2018
TRUE COLORS
05 Jan 2025
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
03 Jan 2015
Gokenin Zankuro
09 Jan 1995
Vessel of Sand
18 Jan 2004
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
04 Oct 1990
Back of Father
13 Jul 2014
NHK WORLD PRIME
07 Oct 2017
Baian the Assassin
09 Oct 1991
Hanekonma
07 Apr 1986
Toubousha
05 Dec 2020
Kagi-shi
12 Mar 1993
Oda Nobunaga
01 Jan 1989
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
21 Dec 2003
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
08 Jul 2002