
Known for
Acting
Born
October 21, 1959 (age 66)
Birthplace
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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.
2026
as Kinji Shinoda
2026
2025
as Shigeyoshi Toumyo
2025
2025
as Hanjiro Hanai
2025
2025
2024
2024
as Kensuke (voice)
2023
2023
as Harun
2022
2020
2020
2020
2020
as Masao Yoshida
2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019
as Ono Masuji
2018
as The King of Siam
2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa
2018
as Head Surgeon (voice)
2018
as Father
2018
2017