Ken Watanabe
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

Letters from Iwo Jima
(2006)Thirty-six days, 21,000 Japanese and 6,800 Americans dead, and thecourse of a world war and of global history changed. Academy Awardwinner Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List) teams with another Oscarwinner, Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven), to tell theunforgettable story of the World War II battle for the island of IwoJima in an epic two feature film story. On both sides, tens o...

Unforgiven
(2013)Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jyubei Kamata (Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jyubei is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more...

Fukushima 50
(2020)When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean near Japan, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility risk everything to manage a reactor leak.

Bel Canto
(2018)A famous soprano travels to South America to do a private concert for a rich Japanese businessman, where she becomes trapped in a hostage situation.

Karate Warrior
(1987)Anthony Scott heads to Manilla for a chance to re-connect with his father but, almost as soon as he lands, Anthony swiftly finds himself on the wrong side of local gangster Quino... who also happens to be a bad-ass Karate champion.

Inception
(2010)Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an all-star cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio in this sci-fi thriller that follows Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), an international fugitive who is the best in the dangerous art of extraction, which is stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state. But Cobb's salvation comes in the form of a last assignment, yet instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists must pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one.

The Sea of Trees
(2016)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.

Earth
(2007)From the same team that produced BBC's visual feast `Planet Earth', this feature length film incorporates some of the same footage from the series with all new scenes following three remarkable, yet endangered, families of animal across the globe.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
(2019)When ancient god-sized monsters rise again, the crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah as they all vie for supremacy.

The Creator
(2023)As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI. The Creator has developed a mysterious weapon that has the power to end the war and all of mankind. As Joshua and his team of elite operatives venture into enemy-occupied territory, they soon discover the w

Godzilla
(2014)This spectacular adventure pits Godzilla the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures that bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance threaten our very existence.

Kensuke's Kingdom
(2024)A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime. Excitement turns to terror when a violent storm erupts and Michael and his dog, Stella, are swept overboard. They are washed up on to a remote island, terrified and struggling to survive. One day, Michael discovers he is not alone when he is confronted by a mysterious Japanese man who has lived there secretly since World War Two.