Ken Watanabe

65, from Koide, Niigata, Japan

Artwork for Transformers: Age of ExtinctionImage of 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.

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Timeline

2024Aged 65

  • Poster for Kensuke's Kingdom

    Kensuke (voice)

  • Poster for All Lives

    (Unknown)

2023Aged 64

  • Poster for The Creator

    Harun

  • Poster for True Love: Making The Creator

    Self

2020Aged 61

  • Poster for Fukushima 50

    Masao Yoshida

  • Poster for 劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編

    (Unknown)

2019Aged 60

  • Poster for An Artist of the Floating World

    Ono Masuji

  • Poster for Pokémon Detective Pikachu

    Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

  • Poster for Godzilla: King of the Monsters

    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

2018Aged 59

  • Poster for 7 Guardians of the Tomb

    Father

  • Poster for Isle of Dogs

    Head Surgeon (voice)

  • Poster for Bel Canto

    Katsumi Hosokawa

  • Poster for The King and I

    The King of Siam

2017Aged 58

  • Poster for The Memories of Happiness

    Taro Miura

  • Poster for Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

    Restaurant Patron

  • Poster for Transformers: The Last Knight

    Drift (voice)

2016Aged 57

  • Poster for The Sea of Trees

    Takumi Nakamura

  • Poster for Rage

    Yohei Maki

2014Aged 55

  • Poster for Godzilla

    Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

  • Poster for Transformers: Age of Extinction

    Drift (voice)

  • Poster for Snow Jack

    Reiji Kurata

  • Poster for Evolution Within Extinction

    Self

2013Aged 54

  • Poster for Unforgiven

    Jubee Kamata

2012Aged 53

  • Poster for Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

    Junichiro Kawaguchi

2011Aged 52

  • Poster for Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

    (Unknown)

2010Aged 51

  • Poster for Shanghai

    Tanaka

  • Poster for Inception

    Saito

  • Poster for A School Behind Bars

    (Unknown)

2009Aged 50

  • Poster for The Unbroken

    Hajime Onchi

  • Poster for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

    Mr. Tall

2007Aged 48

  • Poster for Earth

    Narrator (voice)

2006Aged 47

  • Poster for Memories of Tomorrow

    Masayuki Saeki

  • Poster for Letters from Iwo Jima

    General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

2005Aged 46

  • Poster for Year One in the North

    Komatsubara Hideaki

  • Poster for Batman Begins

    Ra's al Ghul

  • Poster for Memoirs of a Geisha

    Chairman

2003Aged 44

  • Poster for T.R.Y.

    Masanobu Azuma

  • Poster for Another Battle/Conspiracy

    Fujimaki Hiroaki

  • Poster for The Last Samurai

    Moritsugu Katsumoto

2002Aged 43

  • Poster for Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

    Okubo

2001Aged 42

  • Poster for Drowning Fish

    Miyota

2000Aged 41

  • Poster for Space Travelers

    Sakamaki ("Crusher")

  • Poster for The Whispered City

    Ishida

1998Aged 39

  • Poster for Bonds

    Detective Sako Akio

1997Aged 38

  • Poster for Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

    Raita Onuki

1993Aged 34

  • Poster for Hanzo, the Razor

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Baian the Assassin: Showdown

    Dr. Baian

1992Aged 33

  • Poster for Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

    Kojirō

  • Poster for Oda Nobunaga

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

    Mochizuki Koheita

1991Aged 32

  • Poster for A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

    Ryoma Sakamoto

1990Aged 31

  • Poster for Baian the Assassin

    Dr. Baian

1989Aged 30

  • Poster for Harimao

    Producer

1987Aged 28

  • Poster for Commando Invasion

    (Unknown)

1986Aged 27

  • Poster for The Making of

    Self

  • Poster for The Sea and Poison

    Toda

1985Aged 26

  • Poster for Kekkon Annai Mystery

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Tampopo

    Gun

1984Aged 25

  • Poster for MacArthur's Children

    Tetsuo Nakai

1980Aged 21

  • Poster for Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance

    Samurai Master

Year unknown

  • Poster for 第三の時効

    (Unknown)