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Ken Watanabe

Kensaku Watanabe had his big career breakthrough when he was chosen to play the lead in the Japanese national TV drama series called "Dokugan ryu Masamune". He played a samurai leader hero, making him a household name in Japan. In 1989, he collapsed while filming a movie in Canada due to leukemia, made a miraculous comeback & co-starred with Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai (2003), which pushed him to the center stage of Hollywood. He appeared as Hiroto Katagiri in the ten-part HBO series Tokyo Vice


Aliases
  • Watanabe Ken
English 日本語

Inception

2010
as Saito

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

2019
as Detective Yoshida

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

The Last Samurai

2003
as Katsumoto

Batman Begins

2005
as Ra's al Ghul

Godzilla

2014
as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

The Creator

2023
as Harun

Tokyo Vice

2022
as Hiroto Katagiri

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005
as The Chairman

Isle of Dogs

2018
as Head Surgeon

MacArthur's Children

1984
as Tetsuo Nakai

Machibugyo Nikki

1987
as Mochizuki Koheita

浮世の画家

2019
as 小野益次

独眼竜政宗

1987
as Date Masamune

Kita no zeronen

2005
as Hideaki Komatsubara

Space Travelers

2000
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")

Kensuke's Kingdom

2024
as Kensuke

Memories of Tomorrow

2006
as Masayuki Saeki

炎立つ

1993
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo

Earth

2007
as Narrator

The Unbroken

2009
as Hajime Onchi

Tampopo

1985
as Gun

Kekkon annai misuterî

1985
as Funayama Tetsuya

西郷どん

2018
as Nariakira Shimazu

Unforgiven

2013
as Jubee Kamata

The King and I

2018
as The King of Siam

白銀ジャック

2014
as Reiji kurata

砂の器 (2004)

2004
as Syuichiro Imanishi

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006
as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Shanghai

2010
as Tanaka

Bel Canto

2018
as Katsumi Hosokawa

Karate Warrior

1987
as Maestro Kimura

Ninja's Force

1984
as Professor

Making of 'Tampopo'

1986
as Ken Watanabe

The Sea of Trees

2016
as Takumi Nakamura

T.R.Y.

2003
as Masanobu Azuma

Double Edge

1985
as Yoshiro

Rage

2016
as Yohei Maki

Kizuna

1998
as Detective Sako Akio

Hayabusa: Harukanaru kikan

2012
as Shunichiro Yamaguchi

Ashes and Snow

2005
as Japanese Narrator (voice)

Baian The Assassin

1990
as Baian Fujieda

御家人斬九郎

1995
as 松平残九郎 / MATSUDAIRA Zankuro

Director

Movie Sando and the Diplomat's Daughter 1988
Movie Passage to Hell 1988
Movie Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 1 1994
Movie Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 2 1994
Movie Above the War 1989

Writer

Movie Sando and the Diplomat's Daughter 1988
Movie Ninja's Force 1984
Movie Above the War 1989

Producer

Movie Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper 2016
Movie Above the War 1989
Movie Hayabusa: Harukanaru kikan 2012