Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1959-10-21 (Age: 67)
Place of Birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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 is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
Filmography (68)
Samurai Vengeance
2026
The Final Piece
2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
2025
All Lives
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
The Creator
2023
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020
Fukushima 50
2020
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
The King and I
2018
