Ken Watanabe
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 35.237 |
| Birthday | 1959-10-21 |
| Place of Birth | Koide, Niigata, Japan |
| Also Known As | 와타나베 켄, Кэн Ватанабэ, 渡边谦, Кен Ватанабе, 渡邊謙, |
2005
Batman Begins
7.706/20397
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable t...
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Batman Begins
2003
The Last Samurai
7.586/6624
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 th...
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The Last Samurai
2006
Letters from Iwo Jima
7.464/1970
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who...
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Letters from Iwo Jima
1985
Tampopo
7.82/327
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...
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Tampopo
2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
5.795/1042
Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They...
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2010
Inception
8.368/35762
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 pa...
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Inception
2003
T.R.Y.
2/1
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals...
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T.R.Y.
2000
Space Travelers
5.5/11
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hosta...
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Space Travelers
2007
Earth
7.6/341
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remar...
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Earth
2013
Unforgiven
7/64
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.
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Unforgiven
2006
Memories of Tomorrow
6/16
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
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Memories of Tomorrow
2009
The Unbroken
6.5/10
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head offic...
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The Unbroken
2010
A School Behind Bars
10/1
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefec...
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A School Behind Bars
2005
Year One in the North
4.9/8
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Ho...
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Year One in the North
2012
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
4.5/2
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an ast...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2002
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
0/0
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their j...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
5.932/7884
As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Godzilla
6.331/8854
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....
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Godzilla
1986
The Sea and Poison
6.9/11
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American ai...
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The Sea and Poison
2016
The Sea of Trees
6.267/477
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
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The Sea of Trees
1992
Oda Nobunaga
8/2
Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his military success led to the ultimate unification of...
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Oda Nobunaga
1984
MacArthur's Children
5.4/7
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the su...
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MacArthur's Children
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
6.055/5969
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of t...
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Transformers: The Last Knight
2014
Snow Jack
0/0
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not respond t...
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Snow Jack
2016
Rage
6.764/70
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees....
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Rage
2010
Shanghai
6.098/164
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...
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Shanghai
2001
Drowning Fish
7/2
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Obore...
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Drowning Fish
2000
The Whispered City
0/0
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...
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The Whispered City
1992
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
8.5/2
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a group...
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
1985
Kekkon Annai Mystery
8.2/2
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable c...
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
1987
Commando Invasion
6.2/4
The leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his innocence after all his men are killed in an abortive raid.
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Commando Invasion
1992
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
0/0
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1980
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
7/2
To compete in his friend Peter's martial arts tournament, Jack flies into Manila from Hong Kong and brings along a book of secret Jeet Kune Do techniq...
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Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
6.934/6586
In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2018
Isle of Dogs
7.848/4691
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...
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Isle of Dogs
2018
Bel Canto
5.4/114
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party....
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Bel Canto
2020
Fukushima 50
6.394/161
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...
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Fukushima 50
2017
The Memories of Happiness
0/0
Taro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his oldest daughter Natsumi, second daughter Yuka and ex-wi...
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The Memories of Happiness
2018
The King and I
6.7/9
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...
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The King and I
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
6.701/5934
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the migh...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
5.9/9
A young boy Michael is taken by his family on a round-the-world sailing trip. But when a storm strikes, Michael and his dog Stella are swept overboard...
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Kensuke's Kingdom
1998
Bonds
5.2/4
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. H...
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Bonds
1997
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
7.4/36
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various...
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1990
Baian the Assassin
0/0
First television special.
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Baian the Assassin
1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
0/0
Second television special.
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
7.667/2958
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
2018
7 Guardians of the Tomb
5.5/200
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained...
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
0/0
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
0/0
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead...
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An Artist of the Floating World
1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
7/1
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very fe...
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
第三の時効
0/0
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2023
The Creator
7.105/2673
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of h...
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The Creator
1986
The Making of "Tampopo"
0/0
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
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The Making of "Tampopo"
2020
劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
7/1
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劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編
2017
Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
0/0
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
2014
Evolution Within Extinction
7.5/2
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Age of Extinction".
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Evolution Within Extinction
1993
Hanzo, the Razor
0/0
During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financial situation. However, Doshin of a government offic...
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Hanzo, the Razor
2023
True Love: Making 'The Creator'
7/2
Join director Gareth Edwards and crew for nearly an hour look behind the scenes. Hear from actors about the filming experience, and learn about the pr...
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True Love: Making 'The Creator'
2024
All Lives
7/1
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little...
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