Person
Ken Watanabe
Born 21 October 1959 66 years old Uonuma, Niigata, Japan Who else is 66? → TMDB ↗
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.
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The numbers
24age in their first credit on record (1984)
42years on screen and counting
3credits in 2003, their busiest year
34dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 63 The Creator
2023as Harun
Age: 59 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Age: 59 Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Age: 58 Isle of Dogs
2018as Head Surgeon (voice)
Age: 54 Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014as Drift (voice)
Age: 54 Godzilla
2014as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Age: 50 Inception
2010as Saito
Age: 47 Letters from Iwo Jima
2006as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Age: 46 Memoirs of a Geisha
2005as Le président
Age: 45 Batman Begins
2005as Ra's al Ghul
Age: 44 The Last Samurai
2003as Moritsugu Katsumoto
Age: 40 Space Travelers
2000as Sakamaki ("Crusher")
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TV credits
Age: 66 Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
2026as 東雲朔太郎
Age: 65 Unbound
2025as Tamema Okitsugu
Age: 65 TRUE COLORS
2025as Taichirou Tsujimura
Age: 62 Tokyo Vice
2022as Hiroto Katagiri
Age: 61 Toubousha
2020
Age: 58 Segodon
2018as Shimazu Nariakira
Age: 55 The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015as 東雲朔太郎
Age: 44 Vessel of Sand
2004as Shuichiro Imanishi
Age: 44 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003No poster
Age: 43 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Age: 43 Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Age: 42 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Age: 41 Hojo Tokimune
2001as Hojo Tokiyori
Age: 40 Ikebukuro West Gate Park
2000as Yokoyama
Age: 35 Gokenin Zankuro
1995as Zankuro Matsudaira
Age: 33 The Fire Still Burns
1993as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Age: 33 Kagi-shi
1993
Age: 32 Waga Machi
1992
Age: 31 Baian the Assassin
1991as Fujieda Baian
Age: 27 Masamune Shogun
1987as 伊達政宗
Age: 26 Hanekonma
1986as Genzo Onodera
Age: 24