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Ken Watanabe

Actor · 68 credits · 27 in highly-rated films

Best known for Inception (2010)

Frequent collaborators: Hideji Ōtaki, Cillian Murphy, Ryo Kase, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Sally Hawkins

Best Ken Watanabe movies by genre

Movies (63 total, ranked by score)

  1. Inception

    2010 · ★ 8.4 (39,997 votes)

    Action, Science Fiction, Adventure

    1

  2. Batman Begins

    2005 · ★ 7.7 (23,037 votes)

    Drama, Crime, Action

    2

  3. The Last Samurai

    2003 · ★ 7.6 (7,716 votes)

    Drama, Action, War

    3

  4. Memoirs of a Geisha

    2005 · ★ 7.6 (3,435 votes)

    Drama, Romance, History

    4

  5. Letters from Iwo Jima

    2006 · ★ 7.5 (2,350 votes)

    Action, Drama, War

    5

  6. The Creator

    2023 · ★ 7.0 (4,077 votes)

    Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

    6

  7. Tampopo

    1985 · ★ 7.8 (443 votes)

    Comedy

    7

  8. Kokuho

    2025 · ★ 7.8 (95 votes)

    Drama, Music

    8

  9. Pokémon Detective Pikachu

    2019 · ★ 6.9 (7,456 votes)

    Action, Adventure, Fantasy

    9

  10. Godzilla: King of the Monsters

    2019 · ★ 6.7 (6,856 votes)

    Science Fiction, Action

    10

  11. Earth

    2007 · ★ 7.6 (368 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. Godzilla

    2014 · ★ 6.4 (9,961 votes)

    Action, Drama, Science Fiction

    12

  13. Kensuke's Kingdom

    2024 · ★ 7.2 (54 votes)

    Animation, Adventure, Drama

    13

  14. Unforgiven

    2013 · ★ 7.0 (78 votes)

    Action, Crime, Drama

    14

  15. Ashes and Snow

    2005 · ★ 7.2 (73 votes)

    Documentary, Drama

    15

  16. The Sea of Trees

    2016 · ★ 6.2 (544 votes)

    Drama

    16

  17. Samurai Vengeance

    2026 · ★ 8.8 (6 votes)

    Mystery, Action, Drama

    17

  18. The King and I

    2018 · ★ 7.0 (10 votes)

    Drama, Music

    18

  19. The Last American Soldier

    1988 · ★ 6.0 (5 votes)

    Action

    19

  20. Hanzo, the Razor

    1993

    Action, Drama

    20

  21. Oda Nobunaga

    1992 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    History, Action

    21

  22. A School Behind Bars

    2010 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Drama

    22

  23. The Final Piece

    2025 · ★ 9.4 (5 votes)

    Drama, Mystery

    23

  24. The Sea and Poison

    1986 · ★ 7.1 (15 votes)

    Drama, War

    24

  25. An Artist of the Floating World

    2019

    Drama

    25

  26. Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

    1992 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    TV Movie, Action, Drama

    26

  27. Evolution Within Extinction

    2014 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. The Making of "Tampopo"

    1986

    Documentary

    28

  29. Shanghai

    2010 · ★ 6.1 (196 votes)

    Drama, Thriller, Mystery

    29

  30. Commando Invasion

    1987 · ★ 6.2 (4 votes)

    Action

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.