Ken Watanabe — Actor (41)
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The Final Piece (2025)
盤上の向日葵 IMDb TMDB
Naoto Kumazawa actor: Kentaro Sakaguchi / Ken Watanabe …
other title: 盤上の向日葵
Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in the midst of his suffering and conflict ---- a shogi world where he fights quietly and passionately in his sharpened senses. Even though he gives up and tries to escape from the light, his passion for shogi continues to guide him thereafter. Eventually, he would learn the true meaning of life.
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Rage (2016)
怒り
Lee Sang-il actor: Ken Watanabe / Mirai Moriyama …
other title: Raiva / Ikari …
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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Kokuho (2025)
国宝
★ 6.2 17 ratings
Sang-il Lee actor: Ryo Yoshizawa / Ryusei Yokohama …
other title: Kokuho - Il maestro di Kabuki / Kokuho - O Preço da Perfeição …
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.
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Drowning Fish (2001)
溺れる魚 IMDb TMDB
Yukihiko Tsutsumi actor: Kippei Shiina / Yosuke Kubozuka …
other title: 溺れる魚
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
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Unforgiven (2013)
許されざる者 IMDb TMDB
Lee Sang-il actor: Ken Watanabe / Koichi Sato …
other title: 許されざる者 / Os Imperdoáveis …
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.
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Tampopo (1985)
タンポポ
★ 8.4 13 ratings
Jūzō Itami actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Nobuko Miyamoto …
other title: タンポポ
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000)
池袋ウエストゲートパーク IMDb TMDB
actor: Tomoya Nagase / Ai Kato …
other title: 池袋ウエストゲートパーク
Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto has become a member of a youth gang called the G-Boys. Known for his cool head and ability to get things done, Makoto becomes a key troubleshooter for the gang by diffusing tense situations and keeping his friends out of harm's way. However, the death of his girlfriend and an escalating turf war with a rival gang threaten to be more than Makoto can handle.
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The Creator (2023)
The Creator
★ 6.3 16 ratings
Gareth Edwards actor: John David Washington / Madeleine Yuna Voyles …
other title: O Criador / Resistência
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.
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Shanghai (2010)
Shanghai
Mikael Håfström actor: John Cusack / Gong Li …
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.
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight
★ 5.6 11 ratings
Michael Bay actor: Mark Wahlberg / Laura Haddock …
other title: Transformers - L'ultimo cavaliere / Transformers: Den Sidste Ridder …
Humans and Transformers are at war. 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. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.
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The Last Samurai (2003)
The Last Samurai
★ 5.9 9 ratings
Edward Zwick actor: Tom Cruise / Ken Watanabe …
other title: L'ultimo samurai / Den sidste samurai …
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him 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.
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The Fire Still Burns (1993)
炎立つ TMDB
Katsuhiko Takahashi actor: Hiroaki Murakami / Ken Watanabe …
other title: 炎立つ
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent from the rule of Minamoto clan.
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Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla
★ 6.1 21 ratings
Gareth Edwards actor: Aaron Taylor-Johnson / Elizabeth Olsen …
other title: 哥斯拉 / 哥吉拉 …
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.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
★ 6.2 17 ratings
Michael Dougherty actor: Kyle Chandler / Vera Farmiga …
other title: Godzilla II - King of the Monsters / Godzilla II: King of the Monsters …
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.
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Tokyo Vice (2022)
Tokyo Vice IMDb TMDB Skybridge
★ 7.4 5 ratings
J.T. Rogers actor: Ansel Elgort / Ken Watanabe …
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.