Ken Watanabe
Acting
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.
Known for
2026Samurai Vengeance
Kinji Shinoda
2025Kokuho
Hanjiro Hanai
2025The Final Piece
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
2025LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2024All Lives
2024Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke (voice)
2023The Creator
Harun
2023True Love: Making The Creator
Self
2020劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020Fukushima 50
Masao Yoshida
2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2019Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
2019An Artist of the Floating World
Ono Masuji
2018Isle of Dogs
Head Surgeon (voice)
2018Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa
2018The King and I
The King of Siam
20187 Guardians of the Tomb
Father
2017Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Restaurant Patron
2017Transformers: The Last Knight
Drift (voice)
2017The Memories of Happiness
Taro Miura
2016Rage
Yohei Maki
2016The Sea of Trees
Takumi Nakamura
2014Godzilla
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
2014Transformers: Age of Extinction
Drift (voice)