Ken Watanabe - Actor Profile

Ken Watanabe

50Movies
10.0 Best Rating

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.

Top Rated Movies

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2025 The Final Piece Shigeyoshi Toumyo ★ 9.4 HIT
2025 Kokuho Hanjiro Hanai ★ 8.2 HIT
2024 All Lives - ★ 6.7 HIT
2024 Kensuke's Kingdom Kensuke (voice) ★ 7.2 HIT
2023 True Love: Making The Creator Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2023 The Creator Harun ★ 7.0 HIT
2020 劇場の灯を消すな!PARCO劇場編 - ★ 7.0 HIT
2020 Fukushima 50 Masao Yoshida ★ 6.5 HIT
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters Dr. Ishiro Serizawa ★ 6.7 HIT
2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu Lieutenant Hide Yoshida ★ 6.9 HIT
2018 The King and I The King of Siam ★ 7.0 HIT
2018 Bel Canto Katsumi Hosokawa ★ 5.5 FLOP
2018 Isle of Dogs Head Surgeon (voice) ★ 7.8 HIT
2018 7 Guardians of the Tomb Father ★ 5.4 FLOP
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight Drift (voice) ★ 6.1 FLOP
2016 Rage Yohei Maki ★ 6.8 HIT
2016 The Sea of Trees Takumi Nakamura ★ 6.2 FLOP
2014 Evolution Within Extinction Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction Drift (voice) ★ 6.0 FLOP
2014 Godzilla Dr. Ishiro Serizawa ★ 6.4 FLOP
2013 Unforgiven Jubee Kamata ★ 7.0 HIT
2012 Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home Junichiro Kawaguchi ★ 6.0 FLOP
2010 A School Behind Bars - ★ 10.0 HIT
2010 Inception Saito ★ 8.4 HIT
2010 Shanghai Tanaka ★ 6.1 FLOP
2009 The Unbroken Hajime Onchi ★ 6.7 HIT
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Mr. Tall ★ 5.8 FLOP
2007 Earth Narrator (voice) ★ 7.6 HIT
2006 Letters from Iwo Jima General Tadamichi Kuribayashi ★ 7.5 HIT
2006 Memories of Tomorrow Masayuki Saeki ★ 6.0 FLOP
2005 Memoirs of a Geisha Chairman ★ 7.6 HIT
2005 Batman Begins Ra's al Ghul ★ 7.7 HIT
2005 Year One in the North Komatsubara Hideaki ★ 4.9 FLOP
2003 The Last Samurai Moritsugu Katsumoto ★ 7.6 HIT
2003 第三の時効 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
2003 T.R.Y. Masanobu Azuma ★ 7.0 HIT
2002 Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS Okubo ★ 7.0 HIT
2001 Drowning Fish Miyota ★ 7.0 HIT
2000 The Whispered City Ishida ★ 9.0 HIT
2000 Space Travelers Sakamaki ("Crusher") ★ 5.9 FLOP
1998 Bonds Detective Sako Akio ★ 4.4 FLOP
1997 Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Raita Onuki ★ 7.6 HIT
1992 Oda Nobunaga - ★ 8.0 HIT
1992 Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi Kojirō ★ 8.5 HIT
1991 A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era Ryoma Sakamoto ★ 7.0 HIT
1987 Commando Invasion - ★ 6.2 FLOP
1986 The Sea and Poison Toda ★ 6.9 HIT
1985 Tampopo Gun ★ 7.8 HIT
1985 Kekkon Annai Mystery - ★ 8.2 HIT
1984 MacArthur's Children Tetsuo Nakai ★ 5.0 FLOP