Cast
Ken Ogata
Acting
Cast
Ken Ogata
Known for
Acting
Born
1937-07-20
From
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died
2008-10-05
Also known as Кэн Огата, 오가타 켄, 绪形拳
Biography
Ken Ogata (緒形 拳 Ogata Ken, 20 July 1937-5 October 2008) was a Japanese actor. Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys. In television, his starring role as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1965 NHK Taiga drama Taikōki catapulted him to fame. Ken went on to many prominent roles in subsequent programs. The following year, he portrayed Benkei in Minamoto no Yoshitsune. The network tapped him again for the role of Fujiwara no Sumitomo in the 1976 Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. He returned to playing Hideyoshi in the 1978 Ōgon no Hibi, and returned to the lead as Ōishi Kuranosuke in Tōge no Gunzō, the 1982 Chūshingura. Another featured appearance in a Taiga drama was in Taiheiki (1991, as Ashikaga Sadauji, father of Takauji). Mr. Ogata died on October 5, 2008, just days after finishing his role in the production of the Fuji TV drama "Kaze no Garden" (Garden of the Winds), filmed in the rural Furano area of northern Japan. In his final role, Ogata, himself 71 years of age, played a doctor involved in the end-of-life care of elderly patients. His sons Kanta and Naoto Ogata are actors. NHK selected Naoto for the starring role of Oda Nobunaga in the 1992 Taiga drama Nobunaga King of Zipangu; Kanta played Inaba Masakatsu in Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ogata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
MOVIE2005
Miracle Banana
as Takashi Yamamura
★7.8
MOVIE1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Yukio Mishima
★6.0
MOVIE1981
Edo Porn
as Hokusai
MOVIE1993
Kokkai e ikô!
★5.6
MOVIE1985
Oar
as Iwago Tomita
★8.0
MOVIE1983
Okinawan Boys
★6.4
MOVIE1995
The Pillow Book
as The Father
★6.3
MOVIE1988
The Peacock King
as Jiku Ajari
★7.5
MOVIE1983
The Ballad of Narayama
as Tatsuhei
★5.9
MOVIE1981
Samurai Reincarnation
as Musashi Miyamoto
★7.3
MOVIE1988
A Chaos of Flowers
as Kan Yosano
★5.7
MOVIE1985
Tracked
as Tokichi Sakane
★7.5
MOVIE1979
Vengeance Is Mine
as Iwao Enokizu
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Izo
as Swordsman
★10.0
MOVIE2003
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Ronin
★6.8
MOVIE1989
Shogun's Shadow
as Igo Gyobu
★6.4
MOVIE2002
September 11
as Villager (segment "Japan")
★9.3
MOVIE1973
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Baian Fujieda
★5.6
MOVIE1983
The Geisha
as Katsuzo
★7.4
MOVIE2006
Love and Honor
as Magohachiro Kibe
★5.6
MOVIE1987
Tokyo Bordello
as Policeman
★5.9
MOVIE1991
Heat Wave
as Police
★6.5
MOVIE1978
The Demon
as Sokichi Takeshita
★6.6
MOVIE1977
Mount Hakkoda
as Corporal Murayama
★7.4
MOVIE1974
The Castle of Sand
as Kenichi Miki
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Virus
as Prof. Tsuchiya
★7.0
MOVIE1969
The Song from My Heart
★4.5
MOVIE1986
House on Fire
as Kazuo Katsura
★7.8
MOVIE2006
Granny Gabai
as Tofu shop owner
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Zegen
as Iheiji Muraoka
★7.4
MOVIE2004
The Hidden Blade
as Chief Retainer Hori
★7.4
MOVIE1969
Samurai Banners
as Hatanaka Buhei
★6.9
MOVIE2004
Last Quarter
as Doujima
★7.0
MOVIE1996
Gonin 2
as Toyama Masamichi
★6.5
MOVIE1983
The Catch
as Fusajiro
★6.7
MOVIE1980
The Wicked
as Capt. Inoue
★7.7
MOVIE1974
The Last Samurai
as Nakamura Hanjiro
★6.1
MOVIE2005
A Hardest Night!!
★6.2
MOVIE1981
Eijanaika
as Furukawa
★7.6
MOVIE2005
The Samurai I Loved
as Maki Sukezaemon
★6.7
MOVIE1991
My Soul Is Slashed
as Shutaro Ishikawa
★7.5
MOVIE1992
Succession
as Daisaku Kadota
★6.9
MOVIE2006
A Long Walk
as Matsutaro Yasuda
★9.0
MOVIE1988
Memories of You
★5.1
MOVIE2008
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
as Nurarihyon
★9.0
MOVIE1991
Goodbye Mama
★7.5
MOVIE2000
Film Noir
as Client
MOVIE1971
A Woman Called En
★6.7
MOVIE1968
The House of Wooden Blocks
★6.6
MOVIE1991
Rainbow Kids
as Inspector Daigoro Igari
MOVIE1988
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Man Walking on Snow
as Nobuo Honma
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Oración
as Senzo Wataumi
MOVIE1990
Shingo's Ten Duels
as The narrator
★8.0
MOVIE1968
The Sex Check
★6.0
MOVIE1980
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Koga Shiro Samurai
MOVIE1981
Scars of the Sun
as Rintaro Motegi (Shuhei's Father)
★6.4
MOVIE1982
The Dropout
as Seiji Ohtaki
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Company Executives
★10.0
MOVIE1974
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Baian Fujieda
★6.0
MOVIE1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
MOVIE1984
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
as Kyohei Tasaka
MOVIE2001
Prince Shōtoku
as Soga no Umako
MOVIE2008
Bōshi
as Shunpei Takayama
★6.3
MOVIE1992
The Dream of Russia
as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Time Limit
MOVIE1988
Totteoki no Seishun
★10.0
MOVIE1999
Autumn Blossoms
MOVIE1964
間諜
MOVIE1998
The Central Quicksand
MOVIE1981
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
as Toyama no Kin-san
MOVIE1984
Ana
as Toru Mori
MOVIE1992
Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
MOVIE1969
Lady with Seven Faces
as Scholar
MOVIE1995
Goodbye Japan
★10.0
MOVIE1969
Farewell, My Beloved
MOVIE2005