Ken Watanabe

Acting

Ken Watanabe

Born 1959-10-21 Uonuma, Niigata, Japan 70 films

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 Tomorr…

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Filmography

70 films
Kokuho poster

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing…

Kokuho

★ 7.8 2025

All Lives poster

TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his…

All Lives

★ 7.3 2024

The Creator poster

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-s…

The Creator

★ 7.0 2023

Fukushima 50 poster

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power p…

Fukushima 50

★ 6.5 2020