Where to watch Ken Watanabe in the UK
Find every Ken Watanabe film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 1 August 2026.
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 …
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- Inception (2010) as Saito
- Alice in Borderland (2020) as Old Gentleman
- Batman Begins (2005) as Ra's al Ghul
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) as Drift (voice)
- The Creator (2023) as Harun
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) as Drift (voice)
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990) Cast
- Tokyo Vice (2022) as Hiroto Katagiri
- The Last Samurai (2003) as Moritsugu Katsumoto
- Godzilla (2014) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Le président
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Head Surgeon (voice)
- The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk (2015) as 東雲朔太郎
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000) as Yokoyama
- Segodon (2018) as Shimazu Nariakira
- Masamune Shogun (1987) as 伊達政宗
- NHK WORLD PRIME (2017) as Self - Presenter
- Unbound (2025) as Tamema Okitsugu
- Hojo Tokimune (2001) as Hojo Tokiyori
- The Fire Still Burns (1993) as Fujiwara Tsunekiyo
- Back of Father (2014) as Takamura Kouji
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Hanekonma (1986) as Genzo Onodera
- Gokenin Zankuro (1995) as Zankuro Matsudaira
- TRUE COLORS (2025) as Taichirou Tsujimura
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) as Mr. Tall
- Kokuho (2025) as Hanjiro Hanai
- Tampopo (1985) as Gun
- 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 (2003) Cast
- 7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018) as Father
- Vessel of Sand (2004) as Shuichiro Imanishi
- Oda Nobunaga (1992) Cast
- The Sea of Trees (2016) as Takumi Nakamura
- Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge: Keisho (2026) as 東雲朔太郎
- Shanghai (2010) as Tanaka
- Kensuke's Kingdom (2024) as Kensuke (voice)
- Bel Canto (2018) as Katsumi Hosokawa
- Earth (2007) as Narrator (voice)
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Most-watched Ken Watanabe films currently: Inception (2010), Batman Begins (2005), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), The Creator (2023), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
What TV shows has Ken Watanabe appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Alice in Borderland (2020), Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990), Tokyo Vice (2022), The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk (2015), Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000).
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