Ken Watanabe
33 dramas in our catalogue
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.
Dramas
Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho
as 東雲朔太郎
Unbound
as Tamema Okitsugu
TRUE COLORS
as Taichirou Tsujimura
Alice in Borderland
as Old Gentleman
Toubousha
2020
Segodon
as Shimazu Nariakira
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Presenter
五年目のひとり
as 키자키 슈지
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
as 東雲朔太郎
Back of Father
as Takamura Kouji
Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo
as Regular
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刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史
2009
Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro Imanishi
川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003
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藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」
2003
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
- No poster
強行犯捜査第七係
2002
Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo Tokiyori
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Yokoyama
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Shimei Tehai
1998
Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro Matsudaira
The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
Kagi-shi
1993
Waga Machi
1992
Izakaya Chōji
1992
Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda Baian
Musuko no Gokikan
1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
- No poster
Oda Nobunaga
1989
Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗
Hanekonma
as Genzo Onodera
A Tale of Two Truncheons
1984