Ken Watanabe
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.
Inception
as SaitoCobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his...
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Godzilla
as Dr. Ishiro SerizawaFord Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is...
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Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off...
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Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened...
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Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the...
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As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon,"...
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Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The...
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lieutenant Hide YoshidaIn a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across...
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The Last Samurai
as Moritsugu KatsumotoNathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare,...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
as ChairmanIn the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as...
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Mr. TallDarren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming...
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In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs...
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Fukushima 50
as Masao YoshidaWorkers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear...
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The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World...
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Earth
as NarratorAn epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures...
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Shanghai
as TanakaAn American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor...
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Bel Canto
as Katsumi HosokawaA famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after...
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7 Guardians of the Tomb
as FatherAn innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000...
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Tampopo
as GunIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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The Sea of Trees
as Takumi NakamuraIn Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him...
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
as Raita OnukiA love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and...
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Unforgiven
as Jubee KamataAn old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down...
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Rage
as Yohei MakiA man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their...
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Kensuke's Kingdom
as KensukeA young boy Michael is taken by his family on a round-the-world sailing trip. But when a storm...
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Commando Invasion
as uncreditedThe leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his...
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The Sea and Poison
as TodaTwo interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity...
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Ikitoshi Ikeru Mono
as uncreditedTV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with...
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Evolution Within Extinction
as SelfThe definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Age of Extinction".
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True Love: Making 'The Creator'
as SelfJoin director Gareth Edwards and crew for nearly an hour look behind the scenes. Hear from...
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T.R.Y.
as Masanobu AzumaAt the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in...
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Memories of Tomorrow
as Masayuki SaekiAfter being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young...
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Year One in the North
as Komatsubara HideakiIn 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from...
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Snow Jack
as Reiji KurataA blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Junichiro KawaguchiIn May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of...
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The King and I
as The King of SiamWidowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many...
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Drowning Fish
as MiyotaWhen corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of...
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Bonds
as Detective Sako AkioTetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to...
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Ryoma SakamotoIn the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged...
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The Unbroken
as Hajime OnchiOnchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for...
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The Whispered City
as IshidaDirector Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa,...
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An Artist of the Floating World
as Ono MasujiIn the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art...
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The Memories of Happiness
as Taro MiuraTaro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his...
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Space Travelers
as Sakamaki ("Crusher")Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages...
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as Mochizuki KoheitaIn a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like...
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
as KojirōIn the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's...
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Oda Nobunaga
as uncreditedAmong the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect,...
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MacArthur's Children
as Tetsuo NakaiIn this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village...
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Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
as uncreditedTo compete in his friend Peter's martial arts tournament, Jack flies into Manila from Hong Kong...
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
as uncreditedA 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as OkuboA Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Fujimaki HiroakiKatsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as Dr. BaianSecond television special.
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Hanzo, the Razor
as uncreditedDuring Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the...
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A School Behind Bars
as uncredited"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano...
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The Making of "Tampopo"
as SelfDocumentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
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NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - PresenterNHK WORLD PRIME brings you a world of mainly documentaries, and more. Tune in to see special...
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Tokyo Vice
as Hiroto KatagiriA first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American...
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Segodon
as Shimazu NariakiraSaigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai...
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Hanekonma
as Genzo OnoderaRin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her...
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Back of Father
as Takamura KoujiA 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and...
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Masamune Shogun
as 伊達政宗Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the...
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as YokoyamaLiving in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto has become a member of a...
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The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara TsunekiyoThis drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the...
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Hojo Tokimune
as Hojo TokiyoriThe 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young...
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川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
as uncreditedNHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories...
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Vessel of Sand
as Shuichiro ImanishiEiryo Waga is well-known musician who has begun a rapid climb to stardom, but he must keep his...
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Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankuro MatsudairaZankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to...
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Waga Machi
as uncreditedBased on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular...
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Baian the Assassin
as Fujieda BaianDuring the day, Dr. Baian is the friendly and trusted village acupuncturist. At night, he...
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Toubousha
as uncreditedA remake of the American show "The Fugitive."
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Izakaya Chōji
as uncreditedThe special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small...
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Kagi-shi
as uncreditedA locksmith who can open any kind of lock with his well-honed fingertip skills is caught up in a...
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