Ken Watanabe

Highest Rated:
100% Tampopo (1986)
Lowest Rated:
35% Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Birthday:
Oct 21, 1959
Birthplace:
Koide (now Uonuma), Niigata prefecture
Bio:
In 1982, he made his first TV appearance in Michinaru Hanran (Unknown Rebellion), and his first appearance on TV as a samurai in Mibu no koiuta. He made his feature-film debut in 1984 with MacArthur's Children.

Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing samurai, as in the 1987…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 35% - 100%
Number of Movies: 22
Box Office Since 2001: $693.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2014 Godzilla
  • Actor
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2013 Yurusarezaru mono (Unforgiven)
  • Actor
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2010 Shanghai
  • Actor
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2010 86% Inception
  • Saito
$292.6M
2009 The Unbroken (shizumanu Taiyô)
  • Actor
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2009 38% Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
  • Mr. Tall
$13.8M
2007 Hoshi hitotsu no yoru
  • Actor
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2006 85% Memories of Tomorrow (Ashita no kioku)
  • Producer
  • Masayuki Saeki
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2006 91% Letters from Iwo Jima
  • General Kuribayashi
$13.7M
2005 Ashes and Snow
  • Actor
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2005 85% Batman Begins
  • Ra's Al Ghul
$205.2M
2005 35% Memoirs of a Geisha
  • The Chairman
$57.0M
2003 65% The Last Samurai
  • Katsumoto
$111.1M
2000 Space Travelers (Supêsutoraberâzu)
  • Actor
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1998 88% Welcome Back Mr. McDonald
  • Truck Driver
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1989 Violent Zone
  • Old Mishima
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1988 Karate Warrior
  • Actor
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1987 Commando Invasion
  • Actor
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1986 100% Tampopo
  • Gun
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1985 9 Deaths of the Ninja
  • Sensei
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1984 Setouchi shonen yakyu dan (MacArthur's Children)
  • Tetsuo Nakai
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1984 Bruce's Fists of Vengeance
  • Actor
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Quotes from Ken Watanabe's Characters

    1. Nathan Algren: What does it say?
    2. Katsumoto: I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new.
    From The Last Samurai. Submitted by Effi L (2 months ago)
    1. Katsumoto: Life in every breath. That is the way of the warrior. That is Bushido!
    2. Nathan Algren: Hai.
    From The Last Samurai. Submitted by Effi L (2 months ago)
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