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Ken Watanabe

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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…

Filmography69 films
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  1. Samurai Vengeance2026
  2. The Final Piece2025
  3. LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER2025
  4. Kokuho2025
  5. All Lives2024
  6. Kensuke's Kingdom2024
  7. True Love: Making The Creator2023
  8. The Creator2023
  9. 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編2020
  10. Fukushima 502020
  11. Godzilla: King of the Monsters2019
  12. Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019
  13. An Artist of the Floating World2019
  14. Bel Canto2018
  15. Isle of Dogs2018
  16. 7 Guardians of the Tomb2018
  17. Transformers: The Last Knight2017
  18. Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween2017
  19. The Memories of Happiness2017
  20. Rage2016
  21. The Sea of Trees2016
  22. Evolution Within Extinction2014
  23. Snow Jack2014
  24. Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
  25. Godzilla2014
  26. Unforgiven2013
  27. Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home2012
  28. Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera -2011
  29. A School Behind Bars2010
  30. Inception2010
  31. Shanghai2010
  32. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant2009
  33. The Unbroken2009
  34. ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES2008
  35. Earth2007
  36. 星ひとつの夜2007
  37. Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'2007
  38. Letters from Iwo Jima2006
  39. Memories of Tomorrow2006
  40. Memoirs of a Geisha2005
  41. Batman Begins2005
  42. Ashes and Snow2005
  43. Year One in the North2005
  44. The Last Samurai2003
  45. 第三の時効2003
  46. Another Battle/Conspiracy2003
  47. T.R.Y.2003
  48. Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS2002
  49. Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji2001
  50. Drowning Fish2001
  51. Proof of the Man 20012001
  52. The Whispered City2000
  53. Space Travelers2000
  54. Bonds1998
  55. Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald1997
  56. Baian the Assassin: Showdown1993
  57. Hanzo, the Razor1993
  58. Chronicle of the Town Magistrate1992
  59. Oda Nobunaga1992
  60. Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi1992
  61. A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era1991
  62. Takeda Shingen1991
  63. Baian the Assassin1990
  64. Commando Invasion1987
  65. The Sea and Poison1986
  66. The Making of "Tampopo"1986
  67. Tampopo1985
  68. Kekkon Annai Mystery1985
  69. MacArthur's Children1984
  1. Samurai Vengeance2026
  2. The Final Piece2025
  3. LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER2025