Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Birthday: 1959-10-21

Place of birth: Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Also known as: 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙, کِن واتانابه, ک ِن واتانابه

imdb_id: nm0913822

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

A School Behind Bars

Score: 10.0

The Whispered City

Score: 9.0

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

Score: 8.5

Inception

Score: 8.4

Kekkon Annai Mystery

Score: 8.2

Oda Nobunaga

Score: 8.0

True Love: Making The Creator

Score: 8.0

Isle of Dogs

Score: 7.9

Tampopo

Score: 7.8

Batman Begins

Score: 7.7

Memoirs of a Geisha

Score: 7.7

Earth

Score: 7.6

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

Score: 7.6

The Last Samurai

Score: 7.6

Evolution Within Extinction

Score: 7.5

Letters from Iwo Jima

Score: 7.5

The Creator

Score: 7.1

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Score: 7.0

The King and I

Score: 7.0

Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance

Score: 7.0

Drowning Fish

Score: 7.0

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Score: 7.0

劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編

Score: 7.0

Unforgiven

Score: 7.0

T.R.Y.

Score: 7.0

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Score: 6.9

The Sea and Poison

Score: 6.9

Rage

Score: 6.9

Kensuke's Kingdom

Score: 6.8

All Lives

Score: 6.7

The Unbroken

Score: 6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Score: 6.7

Fukushima 50

Score: 6.5

Godzilla

Score: 6.3

Commando Invasion

Score: 6.2

The Sea of Trees

Score: 6.2

Shanghai

Score: 6.1

Transformers: The Last Knight

Score: 6.1

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

Score: 6.0

Memories of Tomorrow

Score: 6.0

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Score: 5.9

Space Travelers

Score: 5.9

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Score: 5.8

MacArthur's Children

Score: 5.5

7 Guardians of the Tomb

Score: 5.4

Bel Canto

Score: 5.4

Bonds

Score: 5.2

Year One in the North

Score: 4.9

盤上の向日葵

Score: 0.0

Kokuho

Score: 0.0

An Artist of the Floating World

Score: 0.0

Another Battle/Conspiracy

Score: 0.0

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

Score: 0.0

Baian the Assassin

Score: 0.0

The Memories of Happiness

Score: 0.0

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

Score: 0.0

Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -

Score: 0.0

Snow Jack

Score: 0.0

Hanzo, the Razor

Score: 0.0

Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween

Score: 0.0

The Making of "Tampopo"

Score: 0.0

第三の時効

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Baian the Assassin

Score: 10.0

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Score: 9.5

Masamune Shogun

Score: 9.2

Unbound

Score: 9.1

NHK WORLD PRIME

Score: 9.0

Segodon

Score: 8.3

Hanekonma

Score: 8.0

Back of Father

Score: 8.0

Gokenin Zankuro

Score: 8.0

Tokyo Vice

Score: 7.9

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Score: 7.8

TRUE COLORS

Score: 7.0

Toubousha

Score: 7.0

Vessel of Sand

Score: 4.0

A Tale of Two Truncheons

Score: 0.0

Musuko no Gokikan

Score: 0.0

Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo

Score: 0.0

The Fire Still Burns

Score: 0.0

Hojo Tokimune

Score: 0.0

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」

Score: 0.0

Shimei Tehai

Score: 0.0

五年目のひとり

Score: 0.0

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Score: 0.0

Waga Machi

Score: 0.0

Izakaya Chōji

Score: 0.0

強行犯捜査第七係

Score: 0.0

横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)

Score: 0.0

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

Score: 0.0

Oda Nobunaga

Score: 0.0

Kagi-shi

Score: 0.0