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.
- Batman Begins 2005
- The Last Samurai 2003
- Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
- Tampopo 1985
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 2009
- Inception 2010
- T.R.Y. 2003
- Space Travelers 2000
- Earth 2007
- Unforgiven 2013
- Memories of Tomorrow 2006
- The Unbroken 2009
- Year One in the North 2005
- Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home 2012
- Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
- Godzilla 2014
- The Sea and Poison 1986
- The Sea of Trees 2016
- MacArthur's Children 1984
- Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
- Rage 2016
- Shanghai 2010
- Drowning Fish 2001
- Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi 1992
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019
- Isle of Dogs 2018
- Bel Canto 2018
- Fukushima 50 2020
- The Memories of Happiness 2017
- The King and I 2018
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019
- Kensuke's Kingdom 2024
- Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 1997
- Memoirs of a Geisha 2005
- 7 Guardians of the Tomb 2018
- Another Battle/Conspiracy 2003
- An Artist of the Floating World 2019
- A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era 1991
- The Creator 2023
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park 2000
- Masamune Shogun 1987
- Tokyo Vice 2022
- Back of Father 2014
- Hojo Tokimune 2001
- The Fire Still Burns 1993
- Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo 2011
- Segodon 2018
- Gokenin Zankuro 1995