# The best Ken Watanabe movies

From The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima and Inception to Tampopo, Unforgiven and The Unbroken: Ken Watanabe's classics from Ranking.net's fan poll and Rank King's picks.

- 45 votes · 14 items
- May 22, 2025 · kobeeiga
- https://even.best/en/l/4295/the-best-ken-watanabe-movies

## Top 12

1. **The Last Samurai (2003)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — As Katsumoto, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor.
2. **Memories of Tomorrow (2006)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — An advertising executive facing early-onset Alzheimer's.
3. **Batman Begins (2005)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nolan: the decoy Ra's al Ghul of the League of Shadows.
4. **Inception (2010)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Nolan: Saito, the businessman who commissions a heist inside dreams.
5. **Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood: General Tadamichi Kuribayashi.
6. **Unforgiven (2013)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Lee Sang-il: Eastwood's western remade in Meiji-era Hokkaido.
7. **Tampopo (1985)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Juzo Itami: a food comedy about saving a ramen shop.
8. **Year One in the North (2005)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Settlers from Awaji who moved to Hokkaido in the early Meiji era.
9. **Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The project manager of the asteroid probe Hayabusa.
10. **The Unbroken (2009)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — From Toyoko Yamasaki's novel: an airline union leader's struggle.
11. **Fukushima 50 (2020)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Masao Yoshida, the plant manager who faced the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
12. **Godzilla (2014)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Gareth Edwards: Dr. Ishiro Serizawa.
13. **Rage (2016)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Lee Sang-il: a worried father and three stories.
14. **Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Rob Marshall: the Chairman, beloved of the geisha Sayuri.

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