Ken Ogata
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
Known For
Credits
- 2008 · Garden of the Wind as Teizo Shiratori
- 2008 · Bōshi as Shunpei Takayama
- 2008 · Kitaro and the Millennium Curse as Nurarihyon
- 2006 · Love and Honor as Magohachiro Kibe
- 2006 · Granny Gabai as Tofu shop owner
- 2006 · A Long Walk as Matsutaro Yasuda
- 2005 · A Hardest Night!! as
- 2005 · The Samurai I Loved as Maki Sukezaemon
- 2005 · Miracle Banana as Takashi Yamamura
- 2005 · Ruri's Island as Yuzo Nakama
- 2005 · Journey Along the Silk Road as
- 2004 · The Hidden Blade as Chief Retainer Hori
- 2004 · Last Quarter as Doujima
- 2004 · Izo as Swordsman
- 2003 · The Man Who Wipes Mirrors as
- 2003 · Time Limit as
- 2002 · 11’09”01—September 11 as Villager (segment "Japan")
- 2001 · Prince Shotoku as Soga no Umako
- 2001 · Man Walking on Snow as Nobuo Honma
- 2000 · Film Noir as Client
- 1999 · Autumn Blossoms as
- 1999 · 古畑任三郎 黒岩博士の恐怖 as
- 1998 · The Central Quicksand as
- 1997 · Gift as Yujiro Kishiwada(岸和田 裕二郎)
- 1997 · Mouri Motonari as
- 1996 · 橋の雨 as
- 1996 · Hachigatsu no Love Song as
- 1996 · Gonin 2 as Toyama Masamichi
- 1996 · SMAP×SMAP as Skit guest
- 1996 · SMAP×SMAP as Skit Guest
- 1996 · ナニワ金融道 as 金子 高利
- 1996 · The Way of Osaka Financing 1 as
- 1995 · Goodbye Japan as
- 1995 · The Pillow Book as The Father
- 1994 · Furuhata Ninzaburo as
- 1994 · Stewardess's Sweetheart as
- 1994 · 動く壁 as
- 1993 · Kokkai e ikô! as
- 1992 · Succession as Daisaku Kadota
- 1992 · The Dream of Russia as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
- 1992 · Ai wa Doda as
- 1991 · My Soul Is Slashed as Shutaro Ishikawa
- 1991 · Goodbye Mama as
- 1991 · Heat Wave as Police
- 1991 · Rainbow Kids as Inspector Daigoro Igari
- 1990 · Shingo's Ten Duels as The narrator
- 1989 · Company Executives as
- 1989 · Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally as
- 1989 · Shogun's Shadow as Igo Gyobu
- 1988 · The Peacock King as Jiku Ajari
- 1988 · A Chaos of Flowers as Kan Yosano
- 1988 · Oración as Senzo Wataumi
- 1988 · Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special as
- 1988 · Memories of You as
- 1988 · Totteoki no Seishun as
- 1987 · Tokyo Bordello as
- 1987 · Zegen as Iheiji Muraoka
- 1986 · House on Fire as Kazuo Katsura
- 1985 · Tracked as Tokichi Sakane
- 1985 · Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")
- 1985 · Oar as Iwago Tomita
- 1984 · Jugyo Sankan no Onna as Kyohei Tasaka
- 1984 · Ana as Toru Mori
- 1983 · The Catch as Fusajiro Kohama
- 1983 · The Geisha as Katsuzo
- 1983 · Okinawan Boys as
- 1983 · The Ballad of Narayama as Tatsuhei
- 1982 · The Dropout as Seiji Ohtaki
- 1982 · Toge no Gunzo as Yoshio Oishi
- 1981 · Edo Porn as Hokusai
- 1981 · Samurai Reincarnation as Musashi Miyamoto
- 1981 · The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge as Toyama no Kin-san
- 1981 · Why Not? as Furukawa
- 1980 · The Wicked as
- 1980 · Virus as Prof. Tsuchiya
- 1980 · Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Koga Shiro Samurai
- 1979 · Akai Arashi as
- 1979 · Vengeance Is Mine as Iwao Enokizu
- 1979 · Ashura no Gotoku as
- 1978 · The Demon as Sokichi Takeshita
- 1978 · Ōgon no Hibi as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1977 · Mount Hakkoda as Corporal Murayama
- 1974 · The Castle of Sand as Kenichi Miki
- 1974 · The Last Samurai as Nakamura Hanjiro
- 1974 · Hashū Hankachō as
- 1974 · Professional Killers – Assignment by Night as Baian Fujieda
- 1973 · Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry as Baian Fujieda
- 1972 · Professional Killers as Baian Fujieda
- 1972 · 必殺仕掛人(TVシリーズ) as
- 1971 · A Woman Called En as
- 1969 · Lady with Seven Faces as Scholar
- 1969 · Samurai Banners as Hatanaka Buhei
- 1969 · Farewell, My Beloved as
- 1968 · The House of Wooden Blocks as
- 1968 · The Sex Check as
- 1966 · Minamoto no Yoshitsune as Musashibo Benkei
- 1965 · Taikouki as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi