Ken Watanabe Filmography: Every Movie and TV Show in Order

How many movies and TV shows has Ken Watanabe been in? This complete Ken Watanabe filmography lists 29 credited roles (26 films, 3 TV series), in chronological order from 1985 to 2025, with links to our full guides where available.

Ken Watanabe movies in order

• Tampopo (1985) as Gun
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) as Raita Onuki
• The Last Samurai (2003) as Moritsugu Katsumoto
• Ashes and Snow (2005) as Japanese Narrator (voice)
• Batman Begins (2005) as Ra's al Ghul
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Le président
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
• Earth (2007) as Narrator (voice)
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) as Mr. Tall
• Shanghai (2010) as Tanaka
• Inception (2010) as Saito
• Unforgiven (2013) as Jubee Kamata
• Godzilla (2014) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) as Drift (voice)
• The Sea of Trees (2016) as Takumi Nakamura
• Rage (2016) as Yohei Maki
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) as Drift (voice)
• 7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018) as Father
• Isle of Dogs (2018) as Head Surgeon (voice)
• Bel Canto (2018) as Katsumi Hosokawa
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) as Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
• Fukushima 50 (2020) as Masao Yoshida
• The Creator (2023) as Harun
• Kensuke's Kingdom (2024) as Kensuke (voice)
• Kokuho (2025) as Hanjiro Hanai

Ken Watanabe TV shows

• Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000) as Yokoyama
• Alice in Borderland (2020) as Old Gentleman
• Tokyo Vice (2022) as Hiroto Katagiri

Filmography data via TMDB, refreshed automatically as new roles are announced.