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Acting

Ken Watanabe

Birthplace
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Popularity
3.3

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 Academ…

Movies
Inception
Inception
2010 ⭐ 8.4
as Saito
 Batman Begins
Batman Begins
2005 ⭐ 7.7
as Ra's al Ghul
 Godzilla
Godzilla
2014 ⭐ 6.4
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
 Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 ⭐ 6.0
as Drift (voice)
 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 ⭐ 6.7
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
 The Creator
The Creator
2023 ⭐ 7.0
as Harun
 Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 ⭐ 6.1
as Drift (voice)
 The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai
2003 ⭐ 7.6
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
 Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 ⭐ 6.9
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
 Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs
2018 ⭐ 7.9
as Head Surgeon (voice)
Web Series & TV Shows