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Ken Watanabe
Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
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…
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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.
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2026
Samurai Vengeance
Movie Kinji Shinoda
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2026
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
TV show 東雲朔太郎
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2025
The Final Piece
Movie Shigeyoshi Toumyo
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2025
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER
Movie
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2025
Kokuho
Movie Hanjiro Hanai
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2025
Unbound
TV show Tamema Okitsugu
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2025
TRUE COLORS
TV show Taichirou Tsujimura
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2024
All Lives
Movie
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2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
Movie Kensuke (voice)
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2023
True Love: Making The Creator
Movie Self
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2023
The Creator
Movie Harun
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2022
Tokyo Vice
TV show Hiroto Katagiri
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2020
Alice in Borderland
TV show Old Gentleman
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2020
Toubousha
TV show
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2020
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
Movie
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2020
Fukushima 50
Movie Masao Yoshida
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2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Movie Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
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2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Movie Ono Masuji
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2018
The King and I
Movie The King of Siam
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2018
Bel Canto
Movie Katsumi Hosokawa
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2018
Isle of Dogs
Movie Head Surgeon (voice)
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2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
Movie Father
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2018
Segodon
TV show Shimazu Nariakira
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2017
NHK WORLD PRIME
TV show Self - Presenter
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2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie Drift (voice)
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2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Movie Restaurant Patron
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2017
The Memories of Happiness
Movie Taro Miura
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2016
五年目のひとり
TV show 키자키 슈지
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2016
Rage
Movie Yohei Maki
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2016
The Sea of Trees
Movie Takumi Nakamura
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2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV show 東雲朔太郎
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2014
Evolution Within Extinction
Movie Self
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2014
Snow Jack
Movie Reiji Kurata
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2014
Back of Father
TV show Takamura Kouji
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2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Movie Drift (voice)
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2014
Godzilla
Movie Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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2013
Unforgiven
Movie Jubee Kamata
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2012
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Movie Junichiro Kawaguchi
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2011
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
TV show Regular
