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Ken Watanabe
Highest Rated: 100% Tampopo (1985)
Lowest Rated: 4% Shanghai (2010)
Birthday: Oct 21, 1959
Birthplace: Koide, Niigata, Japan
It is no wonder that actor Ken Watanabe has played many roles as a Japanese samurai throughout much his career. Like the warriors of old, Watanabe has practiced a code of humility, honor and modesty with his approach to acting and stardom-even his first name is a common moniker meaning modesty. Watanabe has also faced death with the fearlessness of the samurai when he was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989. Though he would eventually recover, Watanabe spent the first half of the 1990s in and out of the hospital. But he never despaired and once healthy, Watanabe continued his venerable acting career with the same command for respect and integrity of the most ardent warrior.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% | 76% | The Creator | Harun (Character) | $40.8M | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kensuke's Kingdom | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2023 |
| 67% | 65% | Fukushima 50 | Masao Yoshida (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 42% | 83% | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Character) | $110.5M | 2019 |
| 68% | 79% | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida (Character) | $144.1M | 2019 |
| 47% | 45% | Bel Canto | Katsumi Hosokawa (Character) | $79.9K | 2018 |
| 90% | 87% | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (Voice) | $31.9M | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper | Original Music | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Rage | Yohei Maki (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 17% | 43% | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura (Character) | $14.0K | 2015 |
| 18% | 50% | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (Voice) | $245.4M | 2014 |
| 76% | 66% | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa (Character) | $200.7M | 2014 |
| 94% | 78% | Unforgiven | Jubei Kamata (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Seeing Heaven | Original Music | - | 2010 |
| 4% | 37% | Shanghai | Tanaka (Character) | $44.7K | 2010 |
| 87% | 91% | Inception | Saito (Character) | $292.6M | 2010 |
| 37% | 42% | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall (Character) | $13.8M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 87% | 82% | Earth | Narrator | $32.0M | 2007 |
| 91% | 86% | Letters From Iwo Jima | Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Character) | $13.8M | 2006 |
| 86% | 89% | Memories of Tomorrow |
Masayuki Saeki (Character), Executive Producer |
$140.2K | 2006 |
| 36% | 83% | Memoirs of a Geisha | The Chairman (Character) | $57.0M | 2005 |
| 85% | 94% | Batman Begins | Ra's Al Ghul (Character) | $206.9M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kita no Zeronen | Hideaki Komatsubara (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 66% | 83% | The Last Samurai | Katsumoto (Character) | $111.1M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Another Battle / Conspiracy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hi Wa Mata Noboru | Okubo (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Sennen no Koi: Hikaru Genji Monogatari |
Fujiwara no Michinaga/ |
- | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Space Travelers | Sakamaki (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 88% | 94% | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki, the truck driver (Character) | $11.5K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Karate Warrior II | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Violent Zone | Old Mishima (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sea and Poison (Umi to dokuyaku) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Karate Warrior | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Commando Invasion | General Diap (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sea and Poison | Toda (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 100% | 93% | Tampopo | Gun (Character) | $224.1K | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kekkon Annai Mystery | Tetsuya Funayama (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Edge | Yoshiro (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bruce's Fists of Vengeance | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 91% | Tokyo Vice |
Hiroto Katagiri (Character), Executive Producer |
2022 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | King Mongkut of Siam (Character) | 2019 |