Ken Watanabe

The Sea of Trees 2015

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

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe

6.1 IMDB Rating 1,250 Views
Tokyo Vice 2022–

A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Koshi Uehara, Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe

8.0 IMDB Rating 22,266 Views
Fukushima 50 2020

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 an tsunami in 2011.

Category: Drama

Stars: Ken Watanabe, Takumi Saitoh, Tomorô Taguchi

6,0 IMDB Rating 1,633 Views
Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,656 Views
Godzilla 2014

In 1999, the Janjira nuclear plant was mysteriously destroyed with most hands lost including supervisor Joe Brody's colleague and wife, Sandra. Years later, Joe's son, Ford, a US Navy ordnance disposal officer, must go to Japan to help his estranged father who obsessively searches for the truth of the incident. In doing so, father and son discover the disaster's secret cause on the wreck's very grounds. This enables them to witness the reawakening of a terrible threat to all of Humanity, which is made all the worse with a second secret revival elsewhere. Against this cataclysm, the only hope for the world may be Godzilla, but the challenge for the King of the Monsters will be great even as Humanity struggles to understand the destructive ally they have.

Category: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson,CJ Adams,Ken Watanabe,Bryan Cranston

6.4 IMDB Rating 15,688 Views
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006

The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Ken Watanabe,Kazunari Ninomiya,Tsuyoshi Ihara,Ryo Kase,Shidô Nakamura,Hiroshi Watanabe,Takumi Bando,Yuki Matsuzaki,Takashi Yamaguchi,Eijiro Ozaki,Nae,Nobumasa Sakagami,Lucas Elliot Eberl,Sonny Saito,Steve Santa Sekiyoshi

7.9 IMDB Rating 8,171 Views
Bel Canto 2018

A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.

Category: Drama, Music, Romantic

Stars: Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch

5.4 IMDB Rating 4,642 Views
The Last Samurai 2003

In 19th century Japan, Nathan Algren, a US army captain, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Captain Algren finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.

Category: Action, Drama

Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly

7.8 IMDB Rating 12,127 Views
Batman Begins 2005

After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption.

Category: Action, Adventure

Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe

8.2 IMDB Rating 20,914 Views