Ken Watanabe movies and tv shows: he has appeared in films such as The Last Samurai (2003), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Inception (2010), Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), and Fukushima 50 (2020). Television appearances include the NHK Taiga drama Fūrin Kazan (2007), Yae’s Sakura (2013), and Tokyo Vice (2022–2024). He was born on October 21, 1959 in Niigata Prefecture.