Ken Watanabe
Birthday: 1959-10-21
Place of Birth: Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
Biography: 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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Batman Begins
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corrup...
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Letters from Iwo Jima
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
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The Last Samurai
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
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Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and...
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Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his target...
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Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and...
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T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shan...
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Space Travelers
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when ...
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The Creator
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-sp...
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Unforgiven
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...
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Godzilla
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced...
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Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessm...
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The Making of "Tampopo"
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985)....
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The Unbroken
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for Nation...
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A School Behind Bars
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsu...
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Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, ...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of the...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics ...
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Earth
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an at...
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True Love: Making The Creator
Join director Gareth Edwards and crew for nearly an hour look behind the scenes. Hear from actors ab...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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Drowning Fish
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shin...
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The Sea and Poison
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during...
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Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween
Dirty, Clean and Inbetween is a Sex and The City for guys, with a delightful mix of Entourage, Suits...
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MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...
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Evolution Within Extinction
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Age of Extinction"....
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Hanzo, the Razor
During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financia...
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All Lives
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his ...
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried ...
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Snow Jack
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destr...
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Rage
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their bloo...
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's becau...
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine ...
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The Sea of Trees
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a...
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Commando Invasion
The leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his innocence...
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Oda Nobunaga
Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his mi...
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an a...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a...
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an i...
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Isle of Dogs
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an...
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Bel Canto
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing a...
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Fukushima 50
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power pl...
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The Memories of Happiness
Taro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his oldes...
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The King and I
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...
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Kensuke's Kingdom
A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, swe...
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Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape ...
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost e...
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Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona i...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highl...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year o...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film serie...
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An Artist of the Floating World
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art sol...
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...
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Kokuho
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing ...
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The Final Piece
Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in ...
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Documentary on the making of Clint Eastwood's film 'Letters from Iwo Jima'....
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星ひとつの夜
Janitor Hiroharu Nonoyama (Ken Watanabe) discovers a coat filled with cash while working. The coat b...
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