Ken Watanabe
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1959-10-21
Locus Natus: Koide, Niigata, Japan
Et ut: 渡邊謙, 渡辺 謙
Batman Begins
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable...
release : 2005.06.10popularis : 61.273
Letters from Iwo Jima
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese...
release : 2006.12.09popularis : 17.276
The Last 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...
release : 2003.12.05popularis : 40.369
Tampopo
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,...
release : 1985.11.23popularis : 15.618
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets....
release : 2009.10.23popularis : 22.59
Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as...
release : 2010.07.15popularis : 85.086
Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he...
release : 2010.06.10popularis : 8.81
T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He...
release : 2003.01.11popularis : 1.209
Space Travelers
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the...
release : 2000.04.08popularis : 2.622
The Creator
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of...
release : 2023.09.27popularis : 64.381
Unforgiven
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.
release : 2013.09.13popularis : 6.395
Godzilla
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,...
release : 2014.05.14popularis : 56.57
Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
release : 2006.05.13popularis : 4.198
The Making of "Tampopo"
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.961
The Unbroken
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head...
release : 2009.10.23popularis : 3.308
A School Behind Bars
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano...
release : 2010.10.11popularis : 0.832
Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...
release : 2005.01.14popularis : 3.155
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an...
release : 2012.02.11popularis : 3.889
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...
release : 2002.06.16popularis : 1.696
Earth
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a...
release : 2007.10.10popularis : 12.391
Transformers: Age of Extinction
As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from...
release : 2014.06.25popularis : 103.651
True Love: Making 'The Creator'
Join director Gareth Edwards and crew for nearly an hour look behind the scenes. Hear from actors about the filming experience, and learn about the...
release : 2023.11.14popularis : 1.59
The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...
release : 2000.07.07popularis : 1.552
Drowning Fish
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate...
release : 2001.02.03popularis : 4.323
The Sea and Poison
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American...
release : 1986.10.17popularis : 3.066
MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the...
release : 1984.06.23popularis : 2.076
Evolution Within Extinction
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Age of Extinction".
release : 2014.09.30popularis : 4.543
Hanzo, the Razor
During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financial situation. However, Doshin of a government...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.29
All Lives
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has...
release : 2024.05.06popularis : 5.595
Transformers: The Last Knight
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of...
release : 2017.06.16popularis : 87.014
Snow Jack
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not...
release : 2014.08.02popularis : 1.733
Rage
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes...
release : 2016.09.17popularis : 9.783
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.887
Kekkon Annai Mystery
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a...
release : 1985.06.15popularis : 1.954
The Sea of Trees
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
release : 2016.04.27popularis : 10.84
Commando Invasion
The leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his innocence after all his men are killed in an abortive raid.
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.94
Oda Nobunaga
Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his military success led to the ultimate...
release : 1992.01.05popularis : 0.995
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...
release : 1992.12.23popularis : 1.261
Godzilla: 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...
release : 2019.05.29popularis : 53.299
Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
To compete in his friend Peter's martial arts tournament, Jack flies into Manila from Hong Kong and brings along a book of secret Jeet Kune Do...
release : 1980.08.22popularis : 1.844
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a...
release : 2019.05.03popularis : 37.165
Isle of Dogs
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...
release : 2018.03.23popularis : 44.823
Bel Canto
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party....
release : 2018.09.13popularis : 7.191
Fukushima 50
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...
release : 2020.03.06popularis : 9.968
The Memories of Happiness
Taro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his oldest daughter Natsumi, second daughter Yuka and...
release : 2017.01.08popularis : 1.184
The King and I
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna...
release : 2018.11.29popularis : 1.828
Kensuke's Kingdom
Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to...
release : 2024.02.07popularis : 6.332
Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....
release : 1998.06.06popularis : 1.289
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing...
release : 1997.11.08popularis : 5.655
Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
release : 2005.12.06popularis : 26.579
7 Guardians of the Tomb
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained...
release : 2018.01.19popularis : 11.404
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed...
release : 2003.02.15popularis : 2.917
An Artist of the Floating World
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty....
release : 2019.03.30popularis : 2.323
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very...
release : 1991.07.06popularis : 2.204