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Ken Watanabe

Name in Native Language: "渡辺謙" (Japanese/JA)
Actor | * 10/21/1959 (64) | Koide, Niigata (Japan)
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Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese 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 Film 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 Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. In 2014, he starred in the reboot ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inc ...

Inception

PG-13

2010 | 4.2/5 | 2h 28min
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
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Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating cris ...

Godzilla

PG-13

2014 | 3.1/5 | 2h 3min
Action, Drama, Science Fiction
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Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and ...

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

PG-13

2019 | 3.3/5 | 2h 12min
Science Fiction, Action
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Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to ...

The Last Samurai

R

2003 | 3.8/5 | 2h 34min
Drama, Action, War
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Awards & Nominations for Ken Watanabe

Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
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Movies with Ken Watanabe as Actor(54)

2024 Kensuke's Kingdom
2023 The Creator
as himself2023 True Love: Making 'The Creator'
as Masao Yoshida2020 Fukushima 50
as Ono Masuji2019 An Artist of the Floating World
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Father2018 7 Guardians of the Tomb
as The King of Siam2018 The King and I
as Head Surgeon (voice)2018 Isle of Dogs
as Katsumi Hosokawa2018 Bel Canto
as Drift (voice)2017 Transformers: The Last Knight
as Taro Miura2017 The Memories of Happiness
as Restaurant Patron2017 Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
as Yohei Maki2016 Rage
as Takumi Nakamura2016 The Sea of Trees
as Drift (voice)2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa2014 Godzilla
as Reiji Kurata2014 Snow Jack
as himself2014 Evolution Within Extinction
as Jubee Kamata2013 Unforgiven
as Junichiro Kawaguchi2012 Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Tanaka2010 Shanghai
as Saito2010 Inception
2010 A School Behind Bars
as Mr. Tall2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Hajime Onchi2009 The Unbroken
as Narrator2007 Earth
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi2006 Letters from Iwo Jima
as Masayuki Saeki2006 Memories of Tomorrow
as Komatsubara Hideaki2005 Year One in the North
as Decoy Ra's al Ghul2005 Batman Begins
as Chairman2005 Memoirs of a Geisha
as Masanobu Azuma2003 T.R.Y.
as Fujimaki Hiroaki2003 Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Moritsugu Katsumoto2003 The Last Samurai
as Okubo2002 Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Miyota2001 Drowning Fish
as Ishida2000 Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")2000 Space Travelers
as Detective Sako Akio1998 Bonds
as Raita Onuki1997 Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Dr. Baian1993 Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1992 Oda Nobunaga
as Mochizuki Koheita1992 Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Kojiro1992 Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as Ryoma Sakamoto1991 A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1987 Commando Invasion
as himself1986 The Making of 'Tampopo'
as Toda1986 The Sea and Poison
as Gun1985 Tampopo
1985 Kekkon Annai Mystery
as Tetsuo Nakai1984 MacArthur's Children
1980 Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance

TV Shows/Series with Ken Watanabe as Actor(10)

as Shimazu Nariakira2018 Segodon
as Takamura Kouji2014 Back of Father
2014 Back of Father
as Regular2011 Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Hojo Tokiyori2001 Hojo Tokimune
as Yokoyama2000 Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Zankuro Matsudaira1995 Gokenin Zankuro
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo1993 The Fire Still Burns
as Fujieda Baian1991 Baian the Assassin
as 伊達政宗1987 Masamune Shogun

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Full Name: Ken Watanabe
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Wednesday, 10/21 1959 (October) in Koide, Niigata (Japan) (current age: 64 years + 188 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: Japanese (JA, native language)
Represented by: K-Dash
Spouses (current/former): Kaho Minami
Other names for Ken Watanabe (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"渡辺謙"
"와타나베 켄"
"Кэн Ватанабэ"
"渡边谦"
"Кен Ватанабе"
"Kensaku Watanabe"
"Vatanabe Kenszaku"
"わたなべ けん" (Kana/Japanese)
Ken Watanabe frequently works together with these people:
Erik Aadahl (7x, Crew)
Michael Bay (6x, Crew)
Paul Weitz (6x, Crew)
Gareth Edwards (6x, Crew)
Ethan van der Ryn (6x, Crew)
Christopher Nolan (5x, Crew)
Renji Ishibashi (5x, Actor)
Hans Zimmer (5x, Crew)
Isao Natsuyagi (5x, Actor)
Kevin Kent (5x, Actor)
Michael Kase (4x, Crew)
Kenichi Endo (3x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:3268, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/24/2024