# Ken Watanabe — nextmovie4u



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Ken Watanabe  is a Japanese actor. He is best 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, Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow an…

## Performed in — top 12 by rating

- **[Inception](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/inception-2010/)** (2010) — ★ 8.4
- **[Kokuho](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/kokuho-2025/)** (2025) — ★ 8.0
- **[Tampopo](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/tampopo-1985/)** (1985) — ★ 7.8
- **[Batman Begins](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/batman-begins-2005/)** (2005) — ★ 7.7
- **[Earth](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/earth-2007/)** (2007) — ★ 7.6
- **[The Last Samurai](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-last-samurai-2003/)** (2003) — ★ 7.6
- **[Letters from Iwo Jima](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006/)** (2006) — ★ 7.5
- **[Ashes and Snow](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/ashes-and-snow-2005/)** (2005) — ★ 7.2
- **[The Sea and Poison](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-sea-and-poison-1986/)** (1986) — ★ 7.1
- **[The Creator](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-creator-2023/)** (2023) — ★ 7.0
- **[Unforgiven](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/unforgiven-2013/)** (2013) — ★ 7.0
- **[Pokémon Detective Pikachu](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/pokemon-detective-pikachu-2019/)** (2019) — ★ 6.9

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