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{{short description|Japanese actor (born 1959)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|[[Watanabe]]|lang=Japanese}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ken Watanabe
| image = Ken Watanabe 20220615.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Watanabe in 2022
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|10|21}}
| birth_place = [[Hirokami, Niigata|Hirokami]] (now part of [[Uonuma, Niigata|Uonuma]]), [[Niigata Prefecture|Niigata]], Japan
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1979{{endash}}present
| spouse = {{unbulleted list
| {{marriage|Yumiko Watanabe|1983|2005|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|[[Kaho Minami]]|2005|2018|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Undisclosed|2023}}
}}
| children = 2, including [[Anne Watanabe]]
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Ken Watanabe'''|渡辺 謙|Watanabe Ken|born October 21, 1959}} is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing [[tragic hero]] characters, such as [[Tadamichi Kuribayashi|General Tadamichi Kuribayashi]] in ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'' and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', for which he was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]]. Among other awards, Watanabe has won the [[Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role|Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor]] twice, in 2007 for ''[[Memories of Tomorrow]]'' and in 2010 for ''[[Shizumanu Taiyō|The Unbroken]]''. He is also known for his roles in [[Christopher Nolan]]'s films ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[Inception]]'', as well as ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'', and ''[[Detective Pikachu (film)|Pokémon Detective Pikachu]]''.
In 2014, he starred in the reboot ''[[Godzilla (2014 film)|Godzilla]]'' as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a role he reprised in the sequel, ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)|Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. He lent his voice to the fourth and fifth installments of the ''[[Transformers]]'' franchise respectively, ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight]]'', as Decepticon-turned-Autobot [[List of Transformers film series cast and characters#Drift|Drift]]. In 2022, he starred in the [[HBO Max]] crime drama series ''[[Tokyo Vice (TV series)|Tokyo Vice]]''.
He made his Broadway debut in April 2015 in Lincoln Center Theater's revival production of ''[[The King and I]]'' in the title role. In 2015, Watanabe received his first [[Tony Award]] nomination for [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical|Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical]] at the [[69th Tony Awards]] for his role as The King. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category.<ref name=crunchyroll.com>{{cite news|url=http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/04/29-1/ken-watanabe-receives-2015-tony-nomination-for-the-king-and-i|title=Ken Watanabe Receives 2015 Tony Nomination for "The King and I"|publisher=crunchyroll.com|date=April 29, 2015|access-date=May 1, 2015|archive-date=May 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501203432/http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/04/29-1/ken-watanabe-receives-2015-tony-nomination-for-the-king-and-i|url-status=live}}</ref> Watanabe reprised his role at the [[London Palladium]] in June 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/details-confirmed-for-the-king-and-i-at-the-london-palladium-in-2018|title=Details confirmed for The King and I at the London Palladium in 2018|work=LondonTheatre.co.uk|first=Will|last=Longman|date=November 17, 2017|access-date=November 17, 2017|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802235649/https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/details-confirmed-for-the-king-and-i-at-the-london-palladium-in-2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/king-and-i|title=The King and I|work=londonboxoffice.co.uk|access-date=November 17, 2017|archive-date=November 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117175502/https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/king-and-i|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Early life==
Watanabe was born on October 21, 1959, in the mountain village of [[Koide, Niigata|Koide]] in [[Niigata Prefecture]], Japan. His mother was a school teacher and his father taught [[calligraphy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2003-12-11-watanabe-ken_x.htm|work=USA Today|title=Japanese Cruise|first=William|last=Keck|date=February 24, 2004|access-date=May 7, 2010|archive-date=December 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207091453/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2003-12-11-watanabe-ken_x.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Due to a number of relocations for his parents' work, he spent his childhood in the villages of [[Irihirose, Niigata|Irihirose]] and [[Sumon, Niigata|Sumon]], both now part of the city of [[Uonuma, Niigata|Uonuma]], and in Takada, now part of the city of [[Jōetsu, Niigata|Jōetsu]]. He attended Niigata Prefectural Koide High School, where he was a member of the [[concert band]] club, playing [[trumpet]], which he had played since childhood.
After graduation from high school, in 1978 he aimed to enter [[Musashino Academia Musicae]], a [[Music school|conservatory]] in [[Tokyo]]. However, he had never received a formal musical education, and his father became seriously ill when he was in junior high school and was unable to work, which meant that his family could no longer afford to pay for his music lessons.<ref name=Lee>{{cite web |last= Lee |first= Ann |title= 'Each little thing in my life is precious': Ken Watanabe on cancer, childhood and Hollywood cliches |work= The Guardian |date= May 19, 2022 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/19/ken-watanabe-cancer-childhood-hollywood-cliches-last-samurai-tokyo-vice |accessdate= May 20, 2022 |archive-date= May 20, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220520001913/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/19/ken-watanabe-cancer-childhood-hollywood-cliches-last-samurai-tokyo-vice |url-status= live }}</ref> Because of these problems, Watanabe was forced to give up his intention of entering the conservatory. He said of the decision: "I had to give up my musical aspirations. I realised I had no talent as a musician. But I still wanted to find a way to be creative, so I decided to try acting".<ref name=Lee/>
==Career==
===Japanese roles===
After graduating from high school in 1978, Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, by enrolling in the drama school run by the Engeki-Shudan En theatre troupe.<ref name=Lee/> While with the troupe, he was cast as the hero in the play ''Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari'', directed by the acclaimed [[Yukio Ninagawa]].<ref name=Lee/> The role attracted critical and popular notice.
In 1982, he made his first TV appearance in ''Michinaru Hanran'' (''Unknown Rebellion''), and his first appearance on TV as a samurai in ''Mibu no koiuta''. He made his feature-film debut in 1984 with ''[[MacArthur's Children]]''.
Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing [[samurai]], as in the 1987 ''[[Dokuganryu Masamune]]'' (''One eyed dragon, [[Date Masamune|Masamune]]'') the 50-episode [[NHK]] [[taiga drama]]. He played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television [[jidaigeki]] ''[[Gokenin Zankurō]]'', which ran for several seasons. He has gone on to garner acclaim in such historical dramas as ''[[Oda Nobunaga]]'', ''[[Forty-seven Ronin|Chūshingura]]'', and the movie ''Bakumatsu Junjo Den''.
In 1989, while filming [[Haruki Kadokawa]]'s ''[[Heaven and Earth (1990 film)|Heaven and Earth]]'', Watanabe was diagnosed with [[acute myelogenous leukemia]]. He returned to acting while simultaneously undergoing [[chemotherapy]] treatments, but in 1991 suffered a relapse.
As his health improved his career picked back up. He co-starred with [[Kōji Yakusho]] in the 1998 ''Kizuna'', for which he was nominated for the [[Japan Academy Film Prize]] for Best Supporting Actor.
[[File:Ken Watanabe 2007 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Watanabe at the NYC opening of ''Memories of Tomorrow'']]
In 2002, he quit the 'En' theatre group where he had his start and joined the [[K Dash (talent agency)|K Dash]] agency. The film ''Sennen no Koi'' (''Thousand-year Love'', based on ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'') earned him another Japanese Academy Award nomination.
In 2006, he won [[Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role|Best Lead Actor]] at the [[30th Japan Academy Film Prize]] for his role in ''[[Memories of Tomorrow (Ashita no Kioku)]]'', in which he played a patient with [[Alzheimer's disease]].
===International films===
Watanabe was introduced to most Western audiences in the 2003 American film ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', set in 19th Century Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.about.com/cs/thelastsamurai/a/smkw120103.htm|title=The Last Samurai - Ken Watanabe Interviews|author=Rebecca Murray|work=About.com Entertainment|access-date=January 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906183942/http://movies.about.com/cs/thelastsamurai/a/smkw120103.htm|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Corkill|first=Edan|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/06/people/from-hollywood-to-hirohito/|title=From Hollywood to Hirohito|work=[[The Japan Times]]|date=July 6, 2013|publisher=The Japan Times, Ltd.|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=July 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724065044/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/06/people/from-hollywood-to-hirohito/|url-status=live}}</ref> His performance as Lord Katsumoto earned him an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-18/entertainment/ken.watanabe_1_theatrical-actor-ken-watanabe-roles|title=Watanabe nominated for Academy Award|publisher=CNN|access-date=February 12, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214050315/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-18/entertainment/ken.watanabe_1_theatrical-actor-ken-watanabe-roles?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|archive-date=February 14, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Watanabe appeared in the 2005 film ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'', playing Chairman Iwamura. That same year, he also played the decoy of Ra's al Ghul in [[Christopher Nolan]]'s Batman film reboot, ''[[Batman Begins]]''. In 2006, he starred in [[Clint Eastwood]]'s ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'', playing [[Tadamichi Kuribayashi]]. He has voiced Ra's al Ghul in the [[Batman Begins (video game)|''Batman Begins'' video game]]. He has filmed advertisements for [[American Express]], [[Yakult]], [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] and [[NTT Docomo]]. In 2004, he was featured in ''[[People Magazine]]''{{'}}s ''50 Most Beautiful People'' edition.
In 2009, he appeared in ''[[Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant|The Vampire's Assistant]]''. In 2010, he co-starred in ''[[Inception]]'', where he stars as Saito, a mark-turned-benefactor businessman of the film's heist team.
In 2014, he starred in two Hollywood blockbusters ''[[Godzilla (2014 film)|Godzilla]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/john-goodman-ken-watanabe-to-voice-autobots-in-transformers-age-of-extinction-1201175957/|title=John Goodman, Ken Watanabe to Voice Autobots in 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 8, 2014|author=Justin Kroll|access-date=January 28, 2016|archive-date=August 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150830222413/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/john-goodman-ken-watanabe-to-voice-autobots-in-transformers-age-of-extinction-1201175957/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, he starred in two other Hollywood blockbusters ''[[Detective Pikachu (film)|Pokémon Detective Pikachu]]'' and ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)|Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''.
In 2023, he returned to work with director [[Gareth Edwards (filmmaker)|Gareth Edwards]] again in the science fiction action film ''[[The Creator (2023 film)|The Creator]]''.
===Television===
Watanabe appears in ''[[Tokyo Vice (TV series)|Tokyo Vice]]'', a television series<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ken-watanabe-ansel-elgort-tokyo-vice-hbo-max-1203334132/|title=Ken Watanabe Joins Ansel Elgort in 'Tokyo Vice' at HBO Max|magazine=Variety|date=September 12, 2019|author=Will Thorne|access-date=September 13, 2019|archive-date=September 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913205323/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ken-watanabe-ansel-elgort-tokyo-vice-hbo-max-1203334132/|url-status=live}}</ref> based on the non-fiction book by [[Jake Adelstein]] and written for television by [[J.T. Rogers]]. The ten-part series was produced by [[HBO Max]] and is distributed by HBO Max and in Japan by [[Wowow]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://deadline.com/2020/11/japans-wowow-coproduce-michael-mann-tokyo-vice-production-resumes-1234620667/|title = Japan's Wowow Boards Michael Mann's 'Tokyo Vice' as Co-Producer as Production Resumes This Week|date = November 23, 2020|access-date = December 1, 2020|archive-date = February 3, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220203195517/https://deadline.com/2020/11/japans-wowow-coproduce-michael-mann-tokyo-vice-production-resumes-1234620667/|url-status = live}}</ref> Tokyo Vice stars [[Ansel Elgort]] as Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to expose corruption.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ansel-elgort-tokyo-vice-warnermedia-streaming-service-1203235293/|title=Ansel Elgort to Star in Drama Series 'Tokyo Vice' at WarnerMedia Streaming Service|magazine=Variety|date=June 6, 2019|author=Joe Otterson|access-date=September 13, 2019|archive-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102193215/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ansel-elgort-tokyo-vice-warnermedia-streaming-service-1203235293/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2019/06/warnermedia-streamer-orders-tokyo-vice-drama-series-ansel-elgort-endeavor-content-1202628306/|title=Ansel Elgort to Star in Drama Series 'Tokyo Vice' at WarnerMedia Streaming Service|website=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|date=June 6, 2019|author=Nellie Andreeva|access-date=September 13, 2019|archive-date=April 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413111620/https://deadline.com/2019/06/warnermedia-streamer-orders-tokyo-vice-drama-series-ansel-elgort-endeavor-content-1202628306/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ken is currently starring in the NHK World Japan's comedy ''You're a Genius!''.
In April 2019, it was announced that [[Warner Bros. International Television Production]] and [[TV Asahi]] were teaming up to remake ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'' (1993). Watanabe is set to star in the upcoming remake, taking place in Tokyo just before the opening of the [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Tokyo Olympics]]. The broadcast date has yet to be announced.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/asia/ken-watanabe-japan-edition-the-fugitive-1203195287/|title=Ken Watanabe to Star in Japan Edition of 'The Fugitive'|magazine=Variety|date=April 24, 2019|last=Schilling|first=Mark|access-date=2020-02-08|archive-date=May 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514035543/https://variety.com/2019/tv/asia/ken-watanabe-japan-edition-the-fugitive-1203195287/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Personal life==
In 1983, Watanabe married his first wife, Yumiko. The couple had two children, a son, Dai Watanabe (born 1984), who is an actor, and a daughter [[Anne Watanabe]] (born 1986) who is an actress and fashion model. In September 2005, following two years of arbitration, he and Yumiko were divorced. In August 2008, Dai had his first child, a son, making Ken a grandfather at the age of 48. A daughter was born to Dai in March 2010. In May 2016, Watanabe's daughter gave birth to twin girls. In November 2017 she gave birth to a son, giving Watanabe five grandchildren altogether.<ref name=Lee/>
He met his second wife, [[Kaho Minami]], when they were both acting in a suspense drama for [[TV Tokyo]]. They married on 3 December 2005. The marriage was announced by their agencies on 7 December,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/12/08/national/actors-watanabe-minami-tie-knot/|title=Actors Watanabe, Minami tie knot|work=The Japan Times|publisher=The Japan Times, Ltd.|date=8 December 2005|access-date=18 May 2018|archive-date=May 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518201457/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/12/08/national/actors-watanabe-minami-tie-knot/|url-status=live}}</ref> just after they had attended a [[New York City]] premiere of his film ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Sayuri]]'' together.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/event/memoirs-of-a-geisha-new-york-city-premiere-inside-arrivals-75104179#/ken-watanabe-and-his-newlymarried-wife-japanese-actress-kaho-minami-picture-id105585041|title='Memoirs of a Geisha' New York City Premiere - Inside Arrivals|publisher=Getty Images|date=6 December 2005|access-date=18 May 2018|archive-date=May 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518202357/https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/event/memoirs-of-a-geisha-new-york-city-premiere-inside-arrivals-75104179#/ken-watanabe-and-his-newlymarried-wife-japanese-actress-kaho-minami-picture-id105585041|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Ken Watanabe 2010.jpg|thumb|left|Watanabe at the premiere of ''[[Inception (film)|Inception]]'' in July 2010]]
Watanabe formally adopted Minami's son from her previous marriage to director [[Jinsei Tsuji]], and for a time the three of them lived in [[Los Angeles]]. In order to increase the amount of time the family could spend together, considering Ken's work requiring him to travel so much, they later returned to Japan. Initially Minami and Ken did not hold a wedding ceremony, but in 2010 they announced that they had held a ceremony on August 1 in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ken Watanabe to appear in Docomo ad with Darth Vader|url=https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/ken-watanabe-to-appear-in-docomo-ad-with-darth-vader|access-date=21 May 2018|work=Japan Today|date=2 September 2010|archive-date=May 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521191502/https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/ken-watanabe-to-appear-in-docomo-ad-with-darth-vader|url-status=live}}</ref>
On May 17, 2018, Minami's agency announced that she and Watanabe had divorced after he had admitted to having an extramarital affair.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805190030.html|title=Ken Watanabe of 'Last Samurai' fame divorces his actress wife|newspaper=[[The Asahi Shimbun]]|date=19 May 2018|publisher=[[The Asahi Shimbun Company]]|access-date=19 May 2018|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519220659/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805190030.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://aramajapan.com/news/ken-wantanbe-and-kaho-minami-divorce-after-cheating-scandal/88334/|title=Ken Watanabe and Kaho Minami divorce after cheating scandal|work=Arama!|date=19 May 2018|access-date=19 May 2018|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519204514/https://aramajapan.com/news/ken-wantanbe-and-kaho-minami-divorce-after-cheating-scandal/88334/|url-status=live}}</ref>
In June 2023, Watanabe married for the third time,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-30 |title=渡辺謙さんが再婚「のんびりとやってまいります」…１８年に南果歩さんと離婚 |url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20230630-OYT1T50210/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703082936/https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20230630-OYT1T50210/ |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=読売新聞オンライン |language=ja}}</ref> a woman who is 21 years his junior, after dating for over 9 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-09 |title=渡辺謙、21歳年下・元ホステスの不倫相手と再々婚発表も「どうでもいい」意外と騒がれない背景に“薄れゆく世間の興味”「世界のワタナベ」が「過去の人」に（2ページ目） |trans-title=Ken Watanabe announces his third marriage to a former hostess who is 21 years younger than him, but "I don't care" - behind the surprising lack of fuss is "fading public interest" - "World-famous Watanabe" has become "a thing of the past" |url=https://www.jprime.jp/articles/-/28572?page=2 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=週刊女性PRIME |language=ja}}</ref>
===Philanthropy===
On March 13, 2011, he launched a YouTube page to raise awareness about the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]] and the subsequent [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|Fukushima nuclear disaster]] and invited celebrities to add their videos of the triple tragedy in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/kizuna311?feature=watch|title=kizuna311|publisher=YouTube|access-date=April 12, 2012|archive-date=June 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629182759/http://www.youtube.com/user/kizuna311?feature=watch|url-status=live}}</ref> In his video in English, he made a call to action to support the victims of triple disaster and to raise funds in the relief effort.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5T3t9rYcjw|title="kizuna311" a message from Ken Watanabe|publisher=YouTube|access-date=April 12, 2012}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> In conjunction amidst the Fukushima crisis, he has also created his own website for the cause.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kizuna311.com/english.html|title=Kizuna – Unity and Hope. Together we will prevail and overcome.|publisher=Kizuna311.com|access-date=April 12, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328054457/http://kizuna311.com/english.html|archive-date=March 28, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
===Health===
In 1989, Watanabe was diagnosed with [[acute myeloid leukemia]]. The cancer returned in 1994, but he later recovered.<ref>{{cite web|last=Freydkin|first=Donna|title=Watanabe opens 'a box of painful memories'|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-06-14-ken-watanabe_N.htm|website=USA Today|access-date=February 10, 2016|archive-date=July 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726143351/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-06-14-ken-watanabe_N.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2006, Watanabe revealed in his [[autobiography]] ''Dare? - Who Am I?'' that prior to commencing work on ''The Last Samurai'', it was discovered that he had contracted [[hepatitis C]] from a blood transfusion he received while undergoing treatment for his leukemia.<ref name=Lee/> At a press conference held on May 23, 2006, he said he was in "good" condition but was still undergoing treatment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2006/05/index.shtml|title=May - 2006 - Japan Zone|access-date=January 28, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921174944/http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2006/05/index.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2016, while on a break from performing in a Broadway production of ''The King and I'', Watanabe was diagnosed with [[stomach cancer]].<ref name=Lee/> He subsequently announced on February 9, 2016, that he would postpone scheduled performances in order to undergo the necessary treatment.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67b381d5004443cfb2f4cc7262afcf3d/tony-nominated-actor-ken-watanabe-battling-stomach-cancer|title=Tony-nominated actor Ken Watanabe battling stomach cancer|date=February 9, 2016|agency=[[Associated Press]]|author=Mark Kennedy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112174114/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67b381d5004443cfb2f4cc7262afcf3d/tony-nominated-actor-ken-watanabe-battling-stomach-cancer/|archive-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> Due to the early diagnosis, surgery was successfully able to remove the cancer.<ref name=Lee/>
==Filmography==
===Films===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
! class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 1984 || ''[[MacArthur's Children]]''|| Tetsuo Nakai || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1985 || ''Kekkon Annai Mystery'' || Funayama Tetsuya / Masakazu Sekine || ||
|-
| ''[[Tampopo]]'' || Gun || ||
|-
| 1986 || ''[[The Sea and Poison (film)|The Sea and Poison]]'' || Toda || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1998 || ''[[Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald]]'' || Raita Onuki, Truck Driver || ||
|-
| ''Kizuna'' || Detective Sako Akio || ||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Space Travelers (2000 film)|Space Travelers]]'' || Sakamaki || ||
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Sennen no Koi Story of Genji|Genji: A Thousand-Year Love]]'' || [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] / Fujiwara Nobutaka || ||
|-
| 2002 || ''Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS'' || Ōkubo || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2003 || ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' || Katsumoto Moritsugu || Hollywood debut ||
|-
| ''T.R.Y.'' || Masanobu Azuma || ||
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2005 || ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' || Chairman Ken Iwamura|| ||
|-
| ''[[Batman Begins]]'' || [[Ra's al Ghul]]'s Decoy || ||
|-
| ''Year One in the North'' || Hideaki Komatsubara || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2006 || ''[[Memories of Tomorrow]]'' || Masayuki Saeki || ||
|-
| ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'' || General [[Tadamichi Kuribayashi]] || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2009 || ''[[Shizumanu Taiyo|The Unbroken]]'' || Hajime Onchi || ||
|-
| ''[[Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant]]'' || Mr. Hibernius Tall || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2010 || ''[[Shanghai (2010 film)|Shanghai]]'' || Captain Tanaka || ||
|-
| ''[[Inception]]'' || Mr. Saito || ||
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan|Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home]]'' || Professor Yamaguchi Junichiro || ||
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Unforgiven (2013 film)|Unforgiven]]'' || Jubei Kamata || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2014 || ''[[Godzilla (2014 film)|Godzilla]]'' || Dr. Ishiro Serizawa || ||
|-
| ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]'' || [[List of Transformers film series cast and characters#Drift|Drift]] (voice)|| ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://michaelbay.com/2014/05/08/john-goodman-and-ken-watanabe-join-the-autobot-voice-cast-in-michael-bays-transformers-age-of-extinction/|title=John Goodman And Ken Watanabe Join The Autobot Voice Cast in Michael Bay's 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'|last=Bay|first=Michael|work=Michael Bay|date=May 8, 2014|access-date=May 8, 2014|archive-date=April 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411112554/http://michaelbay.com/2014/05/08/john-goodman-and-ken-watanabe-join-the-autobot-voice-cast-in-michael-bays-transformers-age-of-extinction/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Sea of Trees (film)|Sea of Trees]]'' || Takumi Nakamura || ||
|-
| 2016 || ''[[Rage (2016 film)|Rage]]'' || Yōhei Maki || ||
|-
| 2017 || ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight]]'' || Drift (voice) || ||
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2018 || ''[[Isle of Dogs (film)|Isle of Dogs]]'' || Head Surgeon (voice) || ||
|-
| ''The Samurai of Tsushima''|| The Emperor of Japan (voice) || ||
|-
| ''[[Bel Canto (film)|Bel Canto]]'' || Katsumi Hosokawa || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2019 || ''[[Detective Pikachu (film)|Detective Pikachu]]'' || Lt. Hide Yoshida || ||
|-
| ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)|Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' || Dr. Ishiro Serizawa || ||
|-
| rowspan="1"| 2020 || ''[[Fukushima 50 (film)|Fukushima 50]]'' || [[Masao Yoshida (nuclear engineer)|Masao Yoshida]] || ||<ref name="slate">{{cite news|last=Shackleton|first=Liz|title=Japan 2011 earthquake, tsunami drama 'Fukushima 50' leads Kadokawa slate (exclusive)|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-drama-fukushima-50-leads-kadokawa-slate-exclusive/5139322.article|access-date=28 August 2019|work=[[Screen International|Screen Daily]]|publisher=Media Business Insight Limited|date=14 May 2019|archive-date=August 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828150546/https://www.screendaily.com/news/japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-drama-fukushima-50-leads-kadokawa-slate-exclusive/5139322.article|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2023 || ''[[Kensuke's Kingdom (film)|Kensuke's Kingdom]]'' || Kensuke (voice)|| ||
|-
| ''[[The Creator (2023 film)|The Creator]]'' || Harun || ||<ref>{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/ken-watanabe-replaces-benedict-wong-in-gareth-edwards-true-love-1234931071/|title=Ken Watanabe Replaces Benedict Wong In Gareth Edwards' Film 'True Love' For New Regency|first=Matt|last=Grobar|date=10 February 2022|work=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=February 11, 2022|archive-date=May 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525002824/https://deadline.com/2022/02/ken-watanabe-replaces-benedict-wong-in-gareth-edwards-true-love-1234931071/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2025 || ''[[Kokuho (film)|Kokuho]]'' || Hanai Hanjiro || ||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2348408/full/|title= 吉沢亮主演・横浜流星共演、映画『国宝』に渡辺謙出演 大河主演俳優そろい踏み 高畑充希・森七菜・見上愛も【コメントあり】|access-date= 8 October 2024|website= Oricon|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| ''The Final Piece''|| Shigeyoshi Tōmyō || ||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/101368/|title= 盤上の向日葵|access-date= 14 January 2025|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|}
===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unsortable"| Notes
! class = "unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 1983 || ''[[Taiyō ni Hoero!]]'' || Yūji Shimizu || Episode 574||
|-
| 1984 || ''[[Sanga Moyu]]'' || Takeshi Kusuda || [[Taiga drama|''Taiga'' drama]]||
|-
| 1986 || ''[[Hanekonma]]'' || Genzō Onodera || ''[[Asadora]]''||
|-
| 1987 || ''[[Dokuganryū Masamune]]'' || [[Date Masamune]]|| ''Taiga'' drama||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/87-taiga.html|title= 独眼竜政宗|access-date= 1 October 2024|work= Haiyaku Jiten}}</ref>
|-
| 1989 || ''Oda Nobunaga'' || [[Oda Nobunaga]] || Television film||
|-
| 1990–1992 || ''Baian the Assassin'' || Baian Fujieda || ||
|-
| 1991 || ''Takeda Shingen''||Narrator||Television film||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/item/d1237/|title= TBS新春大型時代劇スペシャル「武田信玄」|access-date= May 9, 2020|work= TBS}}</ref>
|-
| 1993–1994 || ''Homura Tatsu'' || [[Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo]] / [[Fujiwara no Yasuhira]] || ''Taiga'' drama ||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/93-2-taiga.html|title= 炎立つ|access-date= 15 April 2025|website= Haiyaku Jiten|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| 1995–2002 || ''[[Gokenin Zankurō]]'' || Zankurō Matsudaira || ||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Ikebukuro West Gate Park (TV series)|Ikebukuro West Gate Park]]'' || Inspector Yokoyama || ||
|-
|rowspan=2|2001 || ''[[Chūshingura 1/47]]'' || || Cameo; television film||
|-
| ''Hōjō Tokimune'' || [[Hōjō Tokiyori]]|| ''Taiga'' drama||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/01-taiga.html|title= 北条時宗|access-date= 28 January 2025|website= Haiyaku Jiten|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| 2004 || ''[[Suna no Utsuwa (TV series)|Suna no Utsuwa]]'' || Shūichirō Imanishi || ||
|-
| 2009–2011 || ''[[Saka no Ue no Kumo (TV series)|Clouds Over the Hill]]'' || Narrator|| ''Taiga'' special drama||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/tv60bin/detail/index.cgi?das_id=D0009010573_00000|title=スペシャルドラマ 坂の上の雲|language=ja|trans-title=Special drama - Clouds on the slope|work=NHK|access-date=September 16, 2019|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802205358/https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/tv60bin/detail/index.cgi?das_id=D0009010573_00000|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2012 || ''Makete, Katsu'' || [[Shigeru Yoshida]] || Mini-series||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/movies/?id=D0009050041_00000|title= 土曜ドラマスペシャル 負けて、勝つ～戦後を創った男・吉田茂～|access-date= 7 January 2025|work= [[NHK]]|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| 2018 || ''[[Segodon]]'' || [[Shimazu Nariakira]]|| ''Taiga'' drama ||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/18-taiga.html|title= 西郷どん|access-date= 28 October 2024|work= Haiyaku Jiten|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| 2019 || ''An Artist of the Floating World'' || Masuji Ono || Television film||
|-
| 2020 || ''The Fugitive'' || Kazuki Kakurai || Mini-series||
|-
| 2022–2024 || ''[[Tokyo Vice (TV series)|Tokyo Vice]]'' || Hiroto Katagiri || Also executive producer||
|-<ref>{{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/562926|title= 妻夫木聡×渡辺謙がテレ東ドラマSP「生きとし生けるもの」で共演、脚本は北川悦吏子|access-date= February 29, 2024|work= Natalie|language=ja}}</ref>
| 2024 || ''All Lives'' || Sho Naruse|| Television film||
|-
| 2025 || ''[[Unbound (TV series)|Unbound]]'' || [[Tanuma Okitsugu]]||[[Taiga drama|''Taiga'' drama]]||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://mantan-web.jp/article/20231005dog00m200004000c.html|title= べらぼう ～蔦重栄華乃夢噺～:25年大河 田沼意次役に渡辺謙 染谷将太、片岡愛之助も出演 宮沢氷魚が初の大河ドラマ|access-date= October 5, 2023|work= Mantan-web|date= October 5, 2023|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|}
===Video games===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 2005 || ''[[Batman Begins (video game)|Batman Begins]]'' || Ra's al Ghul's decoy ||
|-
|}
===Stage===
* ''Britannicus henso''(1980)
* ''Britannicus henso'' (1980)
* ''Shitaya mannencho monogatari'' (1981)
* ''Fuyu no raion (The Lion in Winter)'' (1981)
* ''Pajaze'' (1981)
* ''Platonof'' (1982)
* ''Kafun netsu'' (1982)
* ''Pizarro'' (1985)
* ''Hamlet'' (1988)
* ''Hamlet no gakuya -anten'' (2000)
* ''Towa part1-kanojo'' (2000)
* ''Towa part2-kanojo to kare'' (2001)
* ''Dialogue with Horowitz'' (2013)
* ''[[The King and I (musical)|The King and I]]'' (2015)
* ''[[The King and I (musical)|The King and I]]'' (2016)
* ''[[The King and I (musical)|The King and I]]'' (2018)
* ''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]'' (2020)
===Dubbing===
;Live-action
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Voice dub for
!Notes
!{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|1985
|''[[First Blood]]''
|[[John Rambo]]
|[[Sylvester Stallone]]
|NTV edition
|<ref>{{cite web |title=ランボー 4Kレストア版 |url=https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC_000000000101734/item_%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC-4K%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A2%E7%89%88_10419173 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005222522/https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC_000000000101734/item_%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC-4K%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A2%E7%89%88_10419173 |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |access-date=October 5, 2021 |work=HMV}}</ref>
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Detective Pikachu (film)|Detective Pikachu]]''
| Lt. Hide Yoshida
| Himself
|
|-
|}
;Animation
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
!{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Mufasa: The Lion King]]''
| Kiros
|
| <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEflDqfSNpr/?igsh=MXFsNXN5ZHR2NDZpbQ== Japan voice dub cast video reel]</ref>
|-
|}
==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Organization
! Award
! Work(s)
! Result
! class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
|1987||11th [[Elan d'or Awards]]||[[Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year|Newcomer Award]]||Himself||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.producer.or.jp/backnumber/elandor/elandor-00.htm|title= エランドール賞歴代受賞者一覧|access-date= October 6, 2021|work= All Nippon Producers Association}}</ref>
|-
|1999||22nd Japan Academy Film Prize||Best Supporting Actor||''Kizuna''||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/award/japan-academy/1999/|title= 第22回 日本アカデミー賞 (1999年)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|2002||[[25th Japan Academy Film Prize]]||Best Supporting Actor||''[[Sennen no Koi Story of Genji|Genji: A Thousand-Year Love]]''||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/award/japan-academy/2002/|title= 第25回 日本アカデミー賞 (2002年)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="2"|2003||[[26th Japan Academy Film Prize]]||Best Supporting Actor||''Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS''||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/award/japan-academy/2003/|title= 第26回 日本アカデミー賞 (2003年)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|[[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2003|2nd Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards]]||Best Supporting Actor||rowspan="8"|''[[The Last Samurai]]''||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913822/awards|title=Awards for Ken Watanabe|publisher=IMDB|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=July 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702035943/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913822/awards|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="7"|2004||[[76th Academy Awards]]||[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|30th [[Saturn Award]]s||[[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|46th [[Blue Ribbon Awards]]||Special Award||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.allcinema.net/award/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9C%E3%83%B3%E8%B3%9E(2003)|title= 2003年 第46回 ブルーリボン賞|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= allcinema|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|[[9th Critics' Choice Awards]]||[[Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|[[61st Golden Globe Awards]]||[[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|[[8th Golden Satellite Awards]]||[[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|[[10th Screen Actors Guild Awards]]||[[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actor]]||{{nom}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006||31st [[Hochi Film Award]]s||Best Actor||rowspan="6"|''[[Memories of Tomorrow]]''||{{won}}||<ref name="awards"/>
|-
|19th [[Nikkan Sports Film Awards]]||Best Actor||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/award/ns-cinema/history/|title= 日刊スポーツ映画大賞 歴代受賞者・作品|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= Nikkan Sports|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="4"|2007||49th Blue Ribbon Awards||Best Actor||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/cinema/p-et-tp1-20070214-156484.html|title= 渡辺謙ベルリンから直行|access-date= 25 December 2024|date= 14 February 2007|website= Nikkan Sports|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|[[30th Japan Academy Film Prize]]||[[Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]]||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-483|title=Another win for 'Hula Girl' at Japan Academy Awards|date=February 16, 2007|publisher=Tokyograph|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=December 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207104036/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-483|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|26th Fujimoto Award||Special Prize||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eibunkyo.jp/fujimoto-award_03/#contentlist|title= 第26回(2006年度)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= Fujimoto Award|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|80th [[Kinema Junpo|Kinema Junpo Awards]]||Best Actor||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0009950|title= 中谷美紀がタマネギ風ヘアーで登場! 第80回キネマ旬報ベスト・テン表彰式|access-date= 25 December 2024|date= 13 February 2007|website= Cinematoday|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|2009||34th Hochi Film Awards||Best Actor||rowspan="2"|''[[Shizumanu Taiyo|The Unbroken]]''||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-5514|title=34th Hochi Film Awards|date=November 28, 2009|publisher=Tokyograph|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=May 31, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531125512/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-5514|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2010||[[33rd Japan Academy Film Prize]]||Best Actor||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-5881|title=33rd Japan Academy Awards|date=March 6, 2010|publisher=Tokyograph|access-date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=March 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310065832/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-5881|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2014||[[37th Japan Academy Film Prize]]||Best Actor||''[[Unforgiven (2013 film)|Unforgiven]]''||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/award/japan-academy/2014/|title= 第37回 日本アカデミー賞 (2014年)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|2015||[[69th Tony Awards]]|| [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical|Best Actor in a Musical]] ||rowspan="3"|''[[The King and I]]''||{{nom}}||<ref>Gans, Andrew. [https://archive.today/20150428125601/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/69th-annual-tony-awards-nominations-announced-347781 "69th Annual Tony Awards Nominations Announced!"] Playbill.com, April 28, 2015</ref>
|-
|2016||[[58th Annual Grammy Awards]]||[[Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album|Best Musical Theater Album]]||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees|title=58th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees|work=The GRAMMYs|access-date=January 28, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207032519/http://www.grammy.com/nominees|archive-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2019||[[2019 Laurence Olivier Awards]]|| [[Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical|Best Actor in a Musical]] ||{{nom}}||<ref>{{cite web |url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/year/2019/ |title=Olivier Awards 2019 |date=12 October 2018 |accessdate=3 March 2019 |publisher=[[Society of London Theatre]]}}</ref>
|-
|2021||[[44th Japan Academy Film Prize]]||[[Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actor]]||''[[Fukushima 50 (film)|Fukushima 50]]''||{{won}}||<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/award/japan-academy/2021/|title= 第44回 日本アカデミー賞 (2021年)|access-date= 25 December 2024|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{IMDb name|913822}}
* {{IBDB name}}
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0297380.htm Ken Watanabe] at the [[Japanese Movie Database]]
* [https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2003-12-11-watanabe-ken_x.htm Ken Watanabe interview] at ''[[USA Today]]''
* [https://archive.today/20051018170257/http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/thelastsamurai/a/smkw120103.htm Ken Watanabe interview] at [[About.com]]
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