Ken Watanabe: movies and TV shows
Ken Watanabe has 107 credits in the archive: 72 films and 35 TV series, from 1984 to 2026. Highest rated: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (9.5/10).
Career timeline
1984 – 2026 · busiest year: 2003 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho | 東雲朔太郎 | TV | — | 66 |
| 2026 | Samurai Vengeance | Kinji Shinoda | Film | 8.8 | 66 |
| 2025 | Unbound | Tamema Okitsugu | TV | 9.3 | 65 |
| 2025 | Kokuho | Hanjiro Hanai | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2025 | TRUE COLORS | Taichirou Tsujimura | TV | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2025 | The Final Piece | Shigeyoshi Toumyo | Film | 9.4 | 65 |
| 2025 | LA PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2024 | Kensuke's Kingdom | Kensuke (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2024 | All Lives | Film | 6.7 | 64 | |
| 2023 | The Creator | Harun | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2023 | True Love: Making The Creator | Self | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 2022 | Tokyo Vice | Hiroto Katagiri | TV | 7.9 | 62 |
| 2022 | Tokyo Vice | TV | 7.9 | 62 | |
| 2020 | Alice in Borderland | Old Gentleman | TV | 8.1 | 60 |
| 2020 | Fukushima 50 | Masao Yoshida | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 2020 | Toubousha | TV | 7.0 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編 | Film | 7.0 | 60 | |
| 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2019 | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Lieutenant Hide Yoshida | Film | 6.9 | 59 |
| 2019 | An Artist of the Floating World | Ono Masuji | Film | — | 59 |
| 2018 | Segodon | Shimazu Nariakira | TV | 8.3 | 58 |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Head Surgeon (voice) | Film | 7.8 | 58 |
| 2018 | 7 Guardians of the Tomb | Father | Film | 5.3 | 58 |
| 2018 | The King and I | The King of Siam | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 2018 | Bel Canto | Katsumi Hosokawa | Film | 5.5 | 58 |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Drift (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2017 | NHK WORLD PRIME | Self - Presenter | TV | 9.0 | 57 |
| 2017 | Dirty, Clean, & Inbetween | Restaurant Patron | Film | — | 57 |
| 2017 | The Memories of Happiness | Taro Miura | Film | — | 57 |
| 2016 | The Sea of Trees | Takumi Nakamura | Film | 6.2 | 56 |
| 2016 | Rage | Yohei Maki | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 2016 | 五年目のひとり | 키자키 슈지 | TV | — | 56 |
| 2015 | The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk | 東雲朔太郎 | TV | 8.8 | 55 |
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Drift (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 2014 | Godzilla | Dr. Ishiro Serizawa | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 2014 | Back of Father | Takamura Kouji | TV | 8.0 | 54 |
| 2014 | Evolution Within Extinction | Self | Film | 7.7 | 54 |
| 2014 | Snow Jack | Reiji Kurata | Film | — | 54 |
| 2013 | Unforgiven | Jubee Kamata | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2012 | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Junichiro Kawaguchi | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 2012 | Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home | Film | 6.4 | 52 | |
| 2011 | Gyoretsuno dekiru sodanjo | Regular | TV | — | 51 |
| 2011 | Ai inochi - Shinjuku Kabukicho Kakekomi Dera - | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2010 | Inception | Saito | Film | 8.4 | 50 |
| 2010 | Shanghai | Tanaka | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 2010 | A School Behind Bars | Film | 10.0 | 50 | |
| 2009 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Mr. Tall | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 2009 | The Unbroken | Hajime Onchi | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 2009 | 刑事一代 平塚八兵衛の昭和事件史 | TV | — | 49 | |
| 2008 | ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2007 | Earth | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 47 |
| 2007 | 星ひとつの夜 | Nonoyama Hiroji | Film | — | 47 |
| 2007 | Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' | Self | Film | — | 47 |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | General Tadamichi Kuribayashi | Film | 7.5 | 46 |
| 2006 | Memories of Tomorrow | Masayuki Saeki | Film | 6.1 | 46 |
| 2006 | Memories of Tomorrow | Film | 6.1 | 46 | |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Ra's al Ghul | Film | 7.7 | 45 |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Le président | Film | 7.6 | 45 |
| 2005 | Ashes and Snow | Japanese Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 45 |
| 2005 | Year One in the North | Komatsubara Hideaki | Film | 5.7 | 45 |
| 2004 | Vessel of Sand | Shuichiro Imanishi | TV | 4.0 | 44 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Moritsugu Katsumoto | Film | 7.6 | 43 |
| 2003 | 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 | TV | — | 43 | |
| 2003 | T.R.Y. | Masanobu Azuma | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 2003 | 藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」 | TV | — | 43 | |
| 2003 | Another Battle/Conspiracy | Fujimaki Hiroaki | Film | — | 43 |
| 2003 | 第三の時効 | Film | — | 43 | |
| 2002 | Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko | TV | 8.0 | 42 | |
| 2002 | 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) | TV | — | 42 | |
| 2002 | Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Okubo | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 2002 | 強行犯捜査第七係 | TV | — | 42 | |
| 2001 | Hojo Tokimune | Hojo Tokiyori | TV | 8.0 | 41 |
| 2001 | Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji | Film | 5.9 | 41 | |
| 2001 | Drowning Fish | Miyota | Film | 7.7 | 41 |
| 2000 | Ikebukuro West Gate Park | Yokoyama | TV | 7.4 | 40 |
| 2000 | Space Travelers | Sakamaki ("Crusher") | Film | 6.1 | 40 |
| 2000 | The Whispered City | Ishida | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1998 | Shimei Tehai | TV | — | 38 | |
| 1998 | Bonds | Detective Sako Akio | Film | 5.6 | 38 |
| 1997 | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald | Raita Onuki | Film | 7.7 | 37 |
| 1995 | Gokenin Zankuro | Zankuro Matsudaira | TV | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1993 | The Fire Still Burns | Fujiwara Tsunekiyo | TV | — | 33 |
| 1993 | Kagi-shi | TV | — | 33 | |
| 1993 | Baian the Assassin: Showdown | Dr. Baian | Film | — | 33 |
| 1993 | Hanzo, the Razor | Film | — | 33 | |
| 1992 | Oda Nobunaga | Film | 8.0 | 32 | |
| 1992 | Chronicle of the Town Magistrate | Mochizuki Koheita | Film | — | 32 |
| 1992 | Waga Machi | TV | — | 32 | |
| 1992 | Izakaya Chōji | TV | — | 32 | |
| 1992 | Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi | Kojirō | Film | 8.5 | 32 |
| 1991 | Baian the Assassin | Fujieda Baian | TV | 10.0 | 31 |
| 1991 | Takeda Shingen | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 31 |
| 1991 | A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era | Ryoma Sakamoto | Film | 7.5 | 31 |
| 1990 | Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen | TV | 9.5 | 30 | |
| 1990 | Musuko no Gokikan | TV | — | 30 | |
| 1990 | Baian the Assassin | Dr. Baian | Film | — | 30 |
| 1989 | Oda Nobunaga | TV | — | 29 | |
| 1989 | Harimao | Film | 8.0 | 29 | |
| 1987 | Masamune Shogun | 伊達政宗 | TV | 9.0 | 27 |
| 1987 | Commando Invasion | Film | 6.8 | 27 | |
| 1986 | Hanekonma | Genzo Onodera | TV | 8.0 | 26 |
| 1986 | The Making of "Tampopo" | Self | Film | — | 26 |
| 1986 | The Sea and Poison | Toda | Film | 7.1 | 26 |
| 1985 | Tampopo | Gun | Film | 7.8 | 25 |
| 1985 | Kekkon Annai Mystery | Film | 8.8 | 25 | |
| 1984 | A Tale of Two Truncheons | TV | — | 24 | |
| 1984 | MacArthur's Children | Tetsuo Nakai | Film | 5.5 | 24 |