Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Birthday:Oct 21, 1959
Place of birth:Uonuma, Niigata, Japan

Filmography

2026
Samurai Vengeance

Samurai Vengeance

Mystery History
9.2

20262h

Japan

Director: Takashi Minamoto

In January 1810 in Edo, Kikunosuke, the 17-year-old-son of a murdered samurai, takes revenge on his father's murderer, Sakubai, who was his father's former retainer. Kikunosuke gloriously defeats the swaggering Sakubai in single combat in front of a theater, witnessed by a huge audience that had just finished watching a production of 47 Ronin. With Sakubai's severed head, Kikunosuke has achieved his revenge and ensured that his family won't be exiled. 18 months later, a ronin named Soichiro Kase from Kikunosuke's domain arrives at the theater. While he seems silly and smooth-talking, he's very keen on finding out more about the incident and Kikunosuke's time working at the theater. The theater's staff – the barker Ippachi, the swordsmanship teacher Sagara, the costumer Hotaru, the craftsman Kyuzo, and the playwright Kinji – are apprehensive and suspicious at his digging. However, not everything is as it seems.

2023
The Creator

The Creator

Science Fiction Action Adventure AI Sci-Fi Military Action
6.7

20232h 14min

Canada, United States

Director: Gareth Edwards

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, 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.

2020
Fukushima 50

Fukushima 50

History Drama Action
6.1

20202h 2min

Japan

Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Action Adventure Fantasy City Adventure Supernatural Fantasy
6.5

20191h 45min

Japan, United States

Director: Rob Letterman

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

2016
The Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees

Drama Psychological Drama
6.1

20161h 50min

United States

Director: Gus Van Sant

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

2014
Godzilla

Godzilla

Action Drama Science Fiction Epic Action Alien Invasion Sci-Fi
6.4

20142h 3min

United States

Director: Gareth Edwards

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

2013
Unforgiven

Unforgiven

Action Crime Drama Western
7.0

20132h 15min

Director: Sang-il Lee

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

2010
Inception

Inception

Action Science Fiction Adventure Simulation & Reality-Shift Sci-Fi Adventure Epic
8.8

20102h 28min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Christopher Nolan

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", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

2007
Earth

Earth

Documentary Nature & Wildlife Documentary
7.9

20071h 30min

France, United Kingdom

Director: Alastair Fothergill

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.

2006
Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima

Action Drama War World War II Historical Drama
7.8

20062h 21min

United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

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.