Ken Watanabe

Actor

Born: October 21, 1959 (age 66)
From: 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 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…

Filmography (69)

Samurai Vengeance (2026)
Kinji Shinoda
The Final Piece (2025)
Shigeyoshi Toumyo
LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER (2025)
Kokuho (2025)
Hanjiro Hanai
All Lives (2024)
Kensuke's Kingdom (2024)
Kensuke (voice)
True Love: Making The Creator (2023)
Self
The Creator (2023)
Harun
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 (2020)
Fukushima 50 (2020)
Masao Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
An Artist of the Floating World (2019)
Ono Masuji
The King and I (2018)
The King of Siam
Bel Canto (2018)
Katsumi Hosokawa
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Head Surgeon (voice)
7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Father
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Drift (voice)
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween (2017)
Restaurant Patron
The Memories of Happiness (2017)
Taro Miura
Rage (2016)
Yohei Maki
The Sea of Trees (2016)
Takumi Nakamura
Evolution Within Extinction (2014)
Self
Snow Jack (2014)
Reiji Kurata
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Drift (voice)
Godzilla (2014)
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Unforgiven (2013)
Jubee Kamata
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - (2011)
A School Behind Bars (2010)