Actor
Ken WatanabeFollow
9 films•1985–2023•Action · Drama · Adventure
Avg critics70%
Avg audience82%
Avg domestic$108.0M
Domestic
$971.6M
Lifetime
Worldwide
$2.97B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$33.9M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Inception | 2010 | $62.8M | $293.0M | 4.66x | $828.0M | B+ | 87% | #6 |
 Godzilla | 2014 | $93.2M | $200.7M | 2.15x | $529.1M | B+ | 76% | #13 |
 Pokémon Detective Pikachu | 2019 | $54.4M | $144.1M | 2.65x | $433.1M | A- | 68% | #19 |
 The Last Samurai | 2003 | $24.3M | $111.0M | 4.58x | $455.0M | A | 65% | #21 |
 Godzilla: King of the Monsters | 2019 | $47.8M | $110.5M | 2.31x | $387.3M | B+ | 42% | #26 |
 Memoirs of a Geisha | 2005 | $6.8M | $57.5M | 8.51x | $162.0M | B+ | 35% | #46 |
 The Creator | 2023 | $14.1M | $40.8M | 2.90x | $104.3M | — | 67% | — |
 Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | $1.7M | $13.8M | 7.40x | $67.9M | — | 91% | — |
 Tampopo | 1985 | $16K | $224K | 13.7x | $0.5M | — | 100% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 4.8 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.1x
$2.97B worldwide on $958.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $971.4MInternational $2.00B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven5.2x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#8Biggest video game moviesPokémon Detective Pikachu$144.1M#13Biggest original filmsInception$292.6M#17Best multipliersInception4.66x#20Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Inception−32.0%
4 placings across 4 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.