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.
TV credits
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
Rated 9.3 out of 10
Unbound
2025
Rated 8.0 out of 10
TRUE COLORS
2025
Rated 7.9 out of 10
Tokyo Vice
2022
Rated 8.1 out of 10
Alice in Borderland
2020
Rated 7.0 out of 10
Toubousha
2020
Rated 8.3 out of 10
Segodon
2018
Rated 9.0 out of 10
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017
Rated 0.0 out of 10
五年目のひとり
2016
Rated 8.8 out of 10
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Back of Father
2014
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
Rated 0.0 out of 10
刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
Rated 4.0 out of 10
Vessel of Sand
2004
Rated 0.0 out of 10
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
Rated 0.0 out of 10
藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Rated 0.0 out of 10
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Rated 0.0 out of 10
強行犯捜査第七係
2002
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Hojo Tokimune
2001
Rated 7.4 out of 10
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Shimei Tehai
1998
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
Rated 0.0 out of 10
The Fire Still Burns
1993