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Ken Watanabe

10/21/1959 (64 years old) | Koide, Japan | Actor | Male

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 Taiyo. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Watanabe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ken Watanabe Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Tokyo Vice	52,652
2.	The Creator	25,038
3.	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	6,527
4.	Godzilla	1,947
5.	Inception	1,655
6.	Transformers: The Last Knight	1,425
7.	Batman Begins	1,283
8.	POKÉMON Detective Pikachu	1,170
9.	Memoirs of a Geisha	103
10.	The Last Samurai	103
11.	Transformers: Age of Extinction	57
12.	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	16
13.	Letters from Iwo Jima	10
14.	The Sea of Trees	10
15.	Shanghai	9

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

8.0/10

85%

42,794

The Creator

Movie | United States | 09/28/2023 | Science Fiction | Robots

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

7.3/10

77%

48,851

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Movie | United States | 05/29/2019 | Science Fiction | monster

The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.

6.0/10

42%

50,168

Godzilla

Movie | United States | 05/16/2014 | Science Fiction | monster

Fifteen years after an 'incident' at a Japanese nuclear power plant, physicist Joe Brody joins forces with his soldier son Ford to discover for themselves what really happened. What they uncover is prelude to global-threatening devastation. An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

6.4/10

76%

7,622

Inception

Movie | United States | 07/16/2010 | Action | Heist

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: inception

8.8/10

87%

12,355

Transformers: The Last Knight

Movie | United States | 06/16/2017 | Science Fiction | Robots

Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

5.2/10

16%

13,198

Batman Begins

Movie | United States | 06/15/2005 | Superhero | DC

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

8.2/10

84%

5,290

POKÉMON Detective Pikachu

Movie | United States | 05/03/2019 | Adventure | For Older Kids

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (pokemon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

6.5/10

68%

14,884

Memoirs of a Geisha

Movie | United States | 12/06/2005 | Romance | Forbidden Love

Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha is a sweeping romantic epic set in a mysterious and exotic world that still casts a potent spell today. The story begins in the years before WWII when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

7.3/10

35%

3,171

The Last Samurai

Movie | United States | 12/05/2003 | History | Far East

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare -- in this lush epic set in the 1870s, which finds Algren learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

7.8/10

66%

1,937

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Movie | United States | 06/25/2014 | Science Fiction | Robots

As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of \Transformers: Dark of the Moon,\ Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control - all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his cross-hairs.

5.6/10

17%

3,213

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Movie | United States | 10/23/2009 | Fantasy | Vampires

Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to \Cirque du Freak\ where they see many strange acts including a wolf-man and a bearded lady

5.8/10

37%

Letters from Iwo Jima

Movie | United States | 12/19/2006 | War | World War II

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

7.8/10

91%

409

The Sea of Trees

Movie | United States | 04/27/2016 | Drama | Relationship

A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.

6.1/10

17%

206

Shanghai

Movie | China | 10/02/2010 | Romance

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

6.6/10

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