Birthday
1959/10/21 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Koide, Niigata, Japan
Also know as
渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه
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...Read more
(2005) Batman Begins
as Ra's al Ghul
(2006) Letters from Iwo Jima
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
(2003) The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
(1985) Tampopo
as Gun
(2009) Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. Tall
(2010) Inception
as Saito
(2010) Shanghai
as Tanaka
(2003) T.R.Y.
as Masanobu Azuma
(2000) Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
第三の時効
as ---
(2023) The Creator
as Harun
(2013) Unforgiven
as Jubee Kamata
(2014) Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
(2006) Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki Saeki
(1986) The Making of "Tampopo"
as Self
(2020) 劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編
as ---
(2009) The Unbroken
as Hajime Onchi
(2010) A School Behind Bars
as ---
(2005) Year One in the North
as Komatsubara Hideaki
(2012) Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro Kawaguchi
(2002) Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Okubo
(2007) Earth
as Narrator (voice)
(2014) Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Drift (voice)
(2023) True Love: Making The Creator
as Self
(2000) The Whispered City
as Ishida
(2001) Drowning Fish
as Miyota
(1986) The Sea and Poison
as Toda
(2017) Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Restaurant Patron
(1984) MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo Nakai
(2014) Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
(1993) Hanzo, the Razor
as ---
(2024) All Lives
as ---
(2017) Transformers: The Last Knight
as Drift (voice)
(2014) Snow Jack
as Reiji Kurata
(2016) Rage
as Yohei Maki
(1992) Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Kojirō
(1985) Kekkon Annai Mystery
as ---
(2016) The Sea of Trees
as Takumi Nakamura
(1987) Commando Invasion
as ---
(2011) Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -
as ---
(1992) Oda Nobunaga
as ---
(1992) Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki Koheita
(2019) Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
(1980) Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
as Samurai Master
(2019) Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
(2018) Isle of Dogs
as Head Surgeon (voice)
(2018) Bel Canto
as Katsumi Hosokawa
(2020) Fukushima 50
as Masao Yoshida
(2017) The Memories of Happiness
as Taro Miura
(2018) The King and I
as The King of Siam
(2024) Kensuke's Kingdom
as Kensuke (voice)
(1998) Bonds
as Detective Sako Akio
(1997) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita Onuki
(1990) Baian the Assassin
as Dr. Baian
(1993) Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. Baian
(2005) Memoirs of a Geisha
as Chairman
(2018) 7 Guardians of the Tomb
as Father
(2003) Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki Hiroaki
(2019) An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono Masuji
(1991) A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma Sakamoto
(2025) National Treasure
as ---
(2025) 盤上の向日葵
as ---
(2000) Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
(1993) Kagi-shi
as ---
(1989) Oda Nobunaga
as ---
(2004) Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi
(1990) Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
as ---
(2003) 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
as ---
(2017) NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter
(2002) 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
as ---
(1987) Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
(2018) Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
(2002) 強行犯捜査第七係
as ---
(1992) Izakaya Chōji
as ---
(1995) Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira
(1992) Waga Machi
as ---
(2022) Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto Katagiri
(2002) Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
as ---
(1991) Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda Baian
(2016) 五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지
(1998) Shimei Tehai
as ---
(2014) Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
(2003) 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
as ---
(1986) Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
(2001) Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori
(1993) The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
(2020) Toubousha
as ---
(2011) Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Regular
(1990) Musuko no Gokikan
as ---
(2025) Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
(2025) TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura