From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
Series | Garden of the Wind | Teizo Shiratori | 2008-10-09 |
Movie | Kitaro and the Millennium Curse | Nurarihyon | 2008-07-09 |
Movie | Bōshi | Shunpei Takayama | 2008-08-02 |
Movie | A Long Walk | Matsutaro Yasuda | 2006-04-01 |
Movie | Love and Honor | Magohachiro Kibe | 2006-12-01 |
Movie | Granny Gabai | Tofu shop owner | 2006-06-02 |
Movie | Miracle Banana | Takashi Yamamura | 2005-10-01 |
Series | Ruri's Island | Yuzo Nakama | 2005-04-16 |
Movie | The Samurai I Loved | Maki Sukezaemon | 2005-10-01 |
Movie | A Hardest Night!! | 2005-10-22 | |
Movie | Izo | Swordsman | 2004-09-07 |
Movie | The Hidden Blade | Chief Retainer Hori | 2004-10-30 |
Movie | Last Quarter | Doujima | 2004-09-25 |
Movie | Time Limit | 2003-06-25 | |
Movie | The Man Who Wipes Mirrors | 2003-09-03 | |
Movie | 11’09”01—September 11 | Villager (segment "Japan") | 2002-09-04 |
Movie | Man Walking on Snow | Nobuo Honma | 2001-01-01 |
Series | Prince Shotoku | Soga no Umako | 2001-11-10 |
Movie | Film Noir | Client | 2000-11-04 |
Movie | Autumn Blossoms | 1999-10-30 | |
Series | Mouri Motonari | 1997-01-05 | |
Series | 橋の雨 | 1996-07-19 | |
Movie | The Way of Osaka Financing 1 | 1996-02-16 | |
Series | ナニワ金融道 | 金子 高利 | 1996-02-16 |
Movie | Gonin 2 | Toyama Masamichi | 1996-06-29 |
Series | Hachigatsu no Love Song | 1996-07-01 | |
Movie | The Pillow Book | The Father | 1995-09-01 |
Movie | Goodbye Japan | 1995-09-02 | |
Series | Stewardess's Sweetheart | 1994-04-12 | |
Series | Furuhata Ninzaburo | Unknown | 1994-04-13 |
Movie | The Dream of Russia | Koudayu Daikokuya - captain | 1992-06-25 |
Movie | Succession | Daisaku Kadota | 1992-08-29 |
Movie | Rainbow Kids | Inspector Daigoro Igari | 1991-01-15 |
Movie | Heat Wave | Police | 1991-02-09 |
Movie | Goodbye Mama | 1991-04-20 | |
Movie | My Soul Is Slashed | Shutaro Ishikawa | 1991-06-01 |
Movie | Shingo's Ten Duels | The narrator | 1990-01-01 |
Movie | Company Executives | 1989-06-10 | |
Movie | Shogun's Shadow | Igo Gyobu | 1989-01-14 |
Movie | Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally | 1989-02-04 | |
Movie | Memories of You | 1988-03-05 | |
Movie | Oración | Senzo Wataumi | 1988-07-23 |
Movie | The Peacock King | Jiku Ajari | 1988-12-10 |
Movie | A Chaos of Flowers | Kan Yosano | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | Zegen | Iheiji Muraoka | 1987-06-02 |
Movie | Tokyo Bordello | 1987-06-13 | |
Movie | House on Fire | Kazuo Katsura | 1986-04-12 |
Movie | Oar | Iwago Tomita | 1985-01-15 |
Movie | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970") | 1985-09-20 |
Movie | Tracked | Tokichi Sakane | 1985-10-26 |
Movie | Ana | Toru Mori | 1984-03-13 |
Movie | Jugyo Sankan no Onna | Kyohei Tasaka | 1984-04-28 |
Movie | The Ballad of Narayama | Tatsuhei | 1983-04-29 |
Movie | Okinawan Boys | 1983-09-10 | |
Movie | The Catch | Fusajiro Kohama | 1983-10-29 |
Movie | The Geisha | Katsuzo | 1983-09-10 |
Series | Toge no Gunzo | Yoshio Oishi | 1982-01-10 |
Movie | The Dropout | Seiji Ohtaki | 1982-10-02 |
Movie | Why Not? | Furukawa | 1981-01-08 |
Movie | Edo Porn | Hokusai | 1981-09-12 |
Movie | Samurai Reincarnation | Musashi Miyamoto | 1981-06-06 |
Movie | Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo | Koga Shiro Samurai | 1980-02-23 |
Movie | Virus | Prof. Tsuchiya | 1980-06-26 |
Movie | The Wicked | 1980-06-28 | |
Movie | Vengeance Is Mine | Iwao Enokizu | 1979-04-21 |
Series | Akai Arashi | 1979-11-30 | |
Series | Ōgon no Hibi | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 1978-01-08 |
Movie | The Demon | Sokichi Takeshita | 1978-10-07 |
Movie | Mount Hakkoda | Corporal Murayama | 1977-06-04 |
Movie | Professional Killers – Assignment by Night | Baian Fujieda | 1974-02-16 |
Movie | The Castle of Sand | Kenichi Miki | 1974-10-19 |
Movie | The Last Samurai | Nakamura Hanjiro | 1974-09-20 |
Movie | Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry | Baian Fujieda | 1973-09-29 |
Series | Professional Killers | Baian Fujieda | 1972-09-02 |
Movie | A Woman Called En | 1971-05-29 | |
Movie | Samurai Banners | Hatanaka Buhei | 1969-03-01 |
Movie | Farewell, My Beloved | 1969-02-21 | |
Movie | Lady with Seven Faces | Scholar | 1969-06-21 |
Movie | The Sex Check | 1968-06-01 | |
Movie | The House of Wooden Blocks | 1968-10-30 | |
Series | Minamoto no Yoshitsune | Musashibo Benkei | 1966-01-02 |
Series | Taikouki | Toyotomi no Hideyoshi | 1965-01-03 |