People
Ken Ogata
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Bōshi as Shunpei Takayama | 2008-08-02 |
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse as Nurarihyon | 2008-07-09 |
Love and Honor as Magohachiro Kibe | 2006-12-01 |
Granny Gabai as Tofu shop owner | 2006-06-02 |
A Long Walk as Matsutaro Yasuda | 2006-04-01 |
A Hardest Night!! | 2005-10-22 |
Miracle Banana as Takashi Yamamura | 2005-10-01 |
The Samurai I Loved as Maki Sukezaemon | 2005-10-01 |
Journey Along the Silk Road | 2005-01-01 |
The Hidden Blade as Chief Retainer Hori | 2004-10-30 |
Last Quarter as Doujima | 2004-09-25 |
Izo as Swordsman | 2004-09-07 |
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors | 2003-09-03 |
Time Limit | 2003-06-25 |
11’09”01—September 11 as Villager (segment "Japan") | 2002-09-04 |
Man Walking on Snow as Nobuo Honma | 2001-01-01 |
Film Noir as Client | 2000-11-04 |
Autumn Blossoms | 1999-10-30 |
The Central Quicksand | 1998-08-04 |
Gonin 2 as Toyama Masamichi | 1996-06-29 |
The Way of Osaka Financing 1 | 1996-02-16 |
Goodbye Japan | 1995-09-02 |
The Pillow Book as The Father | 1995-09-01 |
Kokkai e ikô! | 1993-05-01 |
Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze | 1992-09-06 |
Succession as Daisaku Kadota | 1992-08-29 |
The Dream of Russia as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain | 1992-06-25 |
My Soul Is Slashed as Shutaro Ishikawa | 1991-06-01 |
Goodbye Mama | 1991-04-20 |
Heat Wave as Police | 1991-02-09 |
Rainbow Kids as Inspector Daigoro Igari | 1991-01-15 |
Shingo's Ten Duels as The narrator | 1990-01-01 |
Company Executives | 1989-06-10 |
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally | 1989-02-04 |
Shogun's Shadow as Igo Gyobu | 1989-01-14 |
The Peacock King as Jiku Ajari | 1988-12-10 |
A Chaos of Flowers as Kan Yosano | 1988-10-01 |
Oración as Senzo Wataumi | 1988-07-23 |
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special | 1988-07-12 |
Memories of You | 1988-03-05 |
Totteoki no Seishun | 1988-01-06 |
Tokyo Bordello | 1987-06-13 |
Zegen as Iheiji Muraoka | 1987-06-02 |
House on Fire as Kazuo Katsura | 1986-04-12 |
Tracked as Tokichi Sakane | 1985-10-26 |
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970") | 1985-09-20 |
Oar as Iwago Tomita | 1985-01-15 |
Jugyo Sankan no Onna as Kyohei Tasaka | 1984-04-28 |
Ana as Toru Mori | 1984-03-13 |
The Catch as Fusajiro Kohama | 1983-10-29 |
Okinawan Boys | 1983-09-10 |
The Geisha as Katsuzo | 1983-09-10 |
The Ballad of Narayama as Tatsuhei | 1983-04-29 |
The Dropout as Seiji Ohtaki | 1982-10-02 |
Edo Porn as Hokusai | 1981-09-12 |
Samurai Reincarnation as Musashi Miyamoto | 1981-06-06 |
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge as Toyama no Kin-san | 1981-04-24 |
太陽のきずあと as Shuhei's Father | 1981-02-14 |
Why Not? as Furukawa | 1981-01-08 |
The Wicked | 1980-06-28 |
Virus as Prof. Tsuchiya | 1980-06-26 |
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Koga Shiro Samurai | 1980-02-23 |
Vengeance Is Mine as Iwao Enokizu | 1979-04-21 |
The Demon as Sokichi Takeshita | 1978-10-07 |
Mount Hakkoda as Corporal Murayama | 1977-06-04 |
The Castle of Sand as Kenichi Miki | 1974-10-19 |
The Last Samurai as Nakamura Hanjiro | 1974-09-20 |
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night as Baian Fujieda | 1974-02-16 |
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry as Baian Fujieda | 1973-09-29 |
A Woman Called En | 1971-05-29 |
Lady with Seven Faces as Scholar | 1969-06-21 |
Samurai Banners as Hatanaka Buhei | 1969-03-01 |
Farewell, My Beloved | 1969-02-21 |
The House of Wooden Blocks | 1968-10-30 |
The Sex Check | 1968-06-01 |