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Acting

Ken Watanabe

Career: Active from 1984 to 2026, busiest in 2003 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 54
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Tampopo
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 33 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ken Watanabe Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Contemporary Realism
4.5, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.4, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Political Intrigue 8
Moral Ambiguity 5
Character Study 4
Emotional Catharsis 4
Japanese Cinema 4
Japanese History 3
Melancholy 3
Character-Driven Narrative 2
Slice of Life 2
Gritty Realism 2
Gentle Pacing 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

89

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

あなたが欲しい－I WANT YOU－

TV show

2020s

12 titles · average score 74

Samurai Vengeance

as Kinji Shinoda

Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho

TV show · as 東雲朔太郎

The Final Piece

as Shigeyoshi Toumyo

Kokuho

83

as Hanjiro Hanai

Unbound

TV show · as Tamema Okitsugu

TRUE COLORS

TV show · as Taichirou Tsujimura

Kensuke's Kingdom

74

as Kensuke (voice)

The Creator

66

as Harun

Tokyo Vice

77

TV show · as Hiroto Katagiri

Fukushima 50

65

as Masao Yoshida

Alice in Borderland

78

TV show · as Old Gentleman

Toubousha

TV show

2010s

24 titles · average score 57

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

56

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

65

as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida

Bel Canto

51

as Katsumi Hosokawa

The King and I

75

as The King of Siam

The Sea of Trees

38

as Takumi Nakamura

Rage

74

as Yohei Maki

Godzilla

67

as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Snow Jack

as Reiji Kurata

Unforgiven

83

as Jubee Kamata

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

as Junichiro Kawaguchi

Inception

83

as Saito

Shanghai

37

as Tanaka

2000s

27 titles · average score 71

The Unbroken

70

as Hajime Onchi

Earth

78

as Narrator (voice)

Letters from Iwo Jima

85

as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Memories of Tomorrow

76

as Masayuki Saeki

Memoirs of a Geisha

59

as Chairman

Year One in the North

as Komatsubara Hideaki

Ashes and Snow

77

as Japanese Narrator (voice)

The Last Samurai

69

as Moritsugu Katsumoto

T.R.Y.

as Masanobu Azuma

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

as Okubo

Hojo Tokimune

TV show · as Hojo Tokiyori

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

76

TV show · as Yokoyama

1990s

17 titles · average score 85

Bonds

as Detective Sako Akio

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

85

as Raita Onuki

Gokenin Zankuro

TV show · as Zankuro Matsudaira

The Fire Still Burns

TV show · as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate

as Mochizuki Koheita

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

as Kojirō

Baian the Assassin

TV show · as Fujieda Baian

A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

as Ryoma Sakamoto

Takeda Shingen

as Narrator

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

TV show

Musuko no Gokikan

TV show

Baian the Assassin

as Dr. Baian

1980s

8 titles · average score 74

Harimao

Producer

TV show

Masamune Shogun

TV show · as 伊達政宗

The Sea and Poison

72

as Toda

Hanekonma

TV show · as Genzo Onodera

Tampopo

88

as Gun

MacArthur's Children

62

as Tetsuo Nakai

A Tale of Two Truncheons

TV show