
Actor · 40 credits
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.

Unbound
2025
Tamema Okitsugu

TRUE COLORS
2025
Taichirou Tsujimura

Tokyo Vice
2022
Hiroto Katagiri

Alice in Borderland
2020
Old Gentleman

Segodon
2018
Shimazu Nariakira

Back of Father
2014
Takamura Kouji

Hojo Tokimune
2001
Hojo Tokiyori

Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000
Yokoyama

Gokenin Zankuro
1995
Zankuro Matsudaira

The Fire Still Burns
1993
Fujiwara Tsunekiyo

Hanekonma
1986
Genzo Onodera