How tall is Ken Watanabe?

Ken Watanabe's listed height is 184 cm (6'0"). He is taller than about 99% of men in Japan.

Where 184 cm sits among men in Japan

Taller than about 99% of men in Japan born in 1959 (average 169.9 cm).

Watanabe next to his co-stars

Michael Caine is 4 cm taller than Ken Watanabe (188 cm), Inception co-star.

Cillian Murphy is 9 cm shorter than Ken Watanabe (175 cm), Inception co-star.

Gong Li is 24 cm shorter than Ken Watanabe (160 cm), Memoirs of a Geisha co-star.

About Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor, born on 21 October 1959 in Uonuma. He is best known for playing tragic hero characters, such as 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.

Watanabe has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, for Memories of Tomorrow in 2007 and The Unbroken in 2010. He is also known for Batman Begins, Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha and Pokémon Detective Pikachu, and he starred as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa in the 2014 Godzilla reboot. In 2015 he made his Broadway debut in The King and I, earning his first Tony Award nomination.

At a listed 184 cm (6'0"), Watanabe is 4 cm shorter than Michael Caine, listed at 188 cm (6'2"), and 9 cm taller than Cillian Murphy, listed at 175 cm (5'9"), his co-stars in Inception. He is also 24 cm taller than Gong Li, listed at 160 cm (5'3"), who appeared with him in Memoirs of a Geisha.

Frequently asked

How tall is Ken Watanabe in feet and inches? Ken Watanabe is 6'0" tall, which is 184 cm, 72.4 inches or 1.84 m.

How tall is Ken Watanabe compared to Michael Caine? Michael Caine is 4 cm taller than Ken Watanabe: 188 cm (6'2") vs 184 cm (6'0").

How tall is Ken Watanabe compared to Cillian Murphy? Cillian Murphy is 9 cm shorter than Ken Watanabe: 175 cm (5'9") vs 184 cm (6'0").

How tall is Ken Watanabe compared to Gong Li? Gong Li is 24 cm shorter than Ken Watanabe: 160 cm (5'3") vs 184 cm (6'0").

Is Ken Watanabe tall for men in Japan? At 184 cm he is taller than about 99% of men in Japan born in 1959, whose average height is 169.9 cm.

Sources

• Ken Watanabe on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Ken Watanabe on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 184 cm.
• Ken Watanabe on TMDB — filmography and co-stars.

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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