Biography
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 S…
Career works
102
Movies
68
Series
34
Career average
7.4/10
Birth date
10/21/1959
Place of birth
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Filmography highlights
Movies
Samurai Vengeance
2026 · 9.2
The Final Piece
2025 · 9.4
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
2025
Kokuho
2025 · 7.9
All Lives
2024 · 6.7
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 · 7.2
True Love: Making The Creator
2023 · 8.0
The Creator
2023 · 7.0
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2020 · 7.0
Fukushima 50
2020 · 6.5
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · 6.7
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · 6.9
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
The King and I
2018 · 7.0
Bel Canto
2018 · 5.5
Series
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026
Unbound
2025 · 9.3
TRUE COLORS
2025 · 8.0
Tokyo Vice
2022 · 7.9
Alice in Borderland
2020 · 8.1
Toubousha
2020 · 7.0
Segodon
2018 · 8.3
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 · 9.0
五年目のひとり
2016
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · 8.8
Back of Father
2014 · 8.0
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
2011
Vessel of Sand
2004 · 4.0
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002 · 8.0