Ken Ogata
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-07-20
Day of Death
2008-10-05 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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 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).
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
as Nurarihyon
(2008)
Bōshi
as Shunpei Takayama
(2006)
Love and Honor
as Magohachiro Kibe
(2006)
A Long Walk
as Matsutaro Yasuda
(2006)
Granny Gabai
as Tofu shop owner
(2005)
The Samurai I Loved
as Maki Sukezaemon
(2005)
(2005)
Miracle Banana
as Takashi Yamamura
(2005)
(2004)
Last Quarter
as Doujima
(2004)
The Hidden Blade
as Chief Retainer Hori
(2004)
Izo
as Swordsman
(2003)
(2003)
(2002)
11’09”01—September 11
as Villager (segment "Japan")
(2001)
Man Walking on Snow
as Nobuo Honma
(2000)
Film Noir
as Client
(1999)
(1998)
(1996)
Gonin 2
as Toyama Masamichi
(1996)
(1995)
The Pillow Book
as The Father
(1995)
(1993)
(1992)
Succession
as Daisaku Kadota
(1992)
The Dream of Russia
as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
(1992)
(1991)
Heat Wave
as Police
(1991)
(1991)
My Soul Is Slashed
as Shutaro Ishikawa
(1991)
Rainbow Kids
as Inspector Daigoro Igari
(1990)
Shingo's Ten Duels
as The narrator
(1989)
Shogun's Shadow
as Igo Gyobu
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
The Peacock King
as Jiku Ajari
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
Oración
as Senzo Wataumi
(1988)
A Chaos of Flowers
as Kan Yosano
(1988)
(1987)
(1987)
Zegen
as Iheiji Muraoka
(1986)
House on Fire
as Kazuo Katsura
(1985)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")
(1985)
Tracked
as Tokichi Sakane
(1985)
Oar
as Iwago Tomita
(1984)
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
as Kyohei Tasaka
(1984)
Ana
as Toru Mori
(1983)
The Ballad of Narayama
as Tatsuhei
(1983)
The Geisha
as Katsuzo
(1983)
The Catch
as Fusajiro Kohama
(1983)
(1982)
The Dropout
as Seiji Ohtaki
(1981)
Edo Porn
as Hokusai
(1981)
Samurai Reincarnation
as Musashi Miyamoto
(1981)
Why Not?
as Furukawa
(1981)
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
as Toyama no Kin-san
(1981)
Scars of the Sun
as Shuhei's Father
(1980)
Virus
as Prof. Tsuchiya
(1980)
(1980)
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Koga Shiro Samurai
(1979)
Vengeance Is Mine
as Iwao Enokizu
(1978)
The Demon
as Sokichi Takeshita
(1977)
Mount Hakkoda
as Corporal Murayama
(1974)
The Castle of Sand
as Kenichi Miki
(1974)
The Last Samurai
as Nakamura Hanjiro
(1974)
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Baian Fujieda
(1973)
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Baian Fujieda
(1971)
(1969)
Samurai Banners
as Hatanaka Buhei
(1969)
Lady with Seven Faces
as Scholar
(1969)
(1968)
(1968)
(1964)