Movies with Ken Watanabe
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 and in 2010 for The Unbroken. 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.
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As actor
23 performances
Kokuho
2025 · ★ 8.0
as Hanjiro Hanai
The Creator
2023 · ★ 7.0
as Harun
Fukushima 50
2020 · ★ 6.5
as Masao Yoshida
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · ★ 6.9
as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · ★ 6.7
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Bel Canto
2018 · ★ 5.5
as Katsumi Hosokawa
The Sea of Trees
2016 · ★ 6.2
as Takumi Nakamura
Rage
2016 · ★ 6.8
as Yohei Maki
Unforgiven
2013 · ★ 7.0
as Jubee Kamata
Inception
2010 · ★ 8.4
as Saito
Shanghai
2010 · ★ 6.1
as Tanaka
The Unbroken
2009 · ★ 6.7
as Hajime Onchi
Earth
2007 · ★ 7.6
as Narrator (voice)
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · ★ 7.5
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Memories of Tomorrow
2006 · ★ 6.1
as Masayuki Saeki
Batman Begins
2005 · ★ 7.7
as Ra's al Ghul
Ashes and Snow
2005 · ★ 7.2
as Japanese Narrator (voice)
Year One in the North
2005 · ★ 5.7
as Komatsubara Hideaki
The Last Samurai
2003 · ★ 7.6
as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Space Travelers
2000 · ★ 6.1
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
The Sea and Poison
1986 · ★ 7.1
as Toda
Tampopo
1985 · ★ 7.8
as Gun
MacArthur's Children
1984 · ★ 5.5
as Tetsuo Nakai