Ken Ogata

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-07-20 (71 years old)

Deathday

2008-10-05

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 Fuj...

Acting

2006

Love and Honor

as Magohachiro Kibe

1995

The Pillow Book

as The Father

1983

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

as Iwao Enokizu

1996

Gonin 2

as Toyama Masamichi

1983

The Geisha

as Katsuzo

1974

The Last Samurai

as Nakamura Hanjiro

1981

Samurai Reincarnation

as Musashi Miyamoto

2005

The Samurai I Loved

as Maki Sukezaemon

1981

Edo Porn

as Hokusai

1989

Shogun's Shadow

as Igo Gyobu

1991

Heat Wave

as Police

1985

Tracked

as Tokichi Sakane

1977

Mount Hakkoda

as Corporal Murayama

1985

Oar

as Iwago Tomita

2000

Film Noir

as Client

1978

The Demon

as Sokichi Takeshita

2005

Miracle Banana

as Takashi Yamamura

1980

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

as Koga Shiro Samurai

1983

The Catch

as Fusajiro Kohama

2006

A Long Walk

as Matsutaro Yasuda

2001

Man Walking on Snow

as Nobuo Honma

1992

The Dream of Russia

as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

1988

The Peacock King

as Jiku Ajari

1981

Why Not?

as Furukawa

1987

Zegen

as Iheiji Muraoka

1986

House on Fire

as Kazuo Katsura

1991

My Soul Is Slashed

as Shutaro Ishikawa

2008

Bōshi

as Shunpei Takayama

1974

The Castle of Sand

as Kenichi Miki

1988

A Chaos of Flowers

as Kan Yosano

1991

Rainbow Kids

as Inspector Daigoro Igari

1990

Shingo's Ten Duels

as The narrator

1982

The Dropout

as Seiji Ohtaki

1980

Virus

as Prof. Tsuchiya

1988

Oración

as Senzo Wataumi

2002

11’09”01—September 11

as Villager (segment "Japan")

2004

Izo

as Swordsman

2004

Last Quarter

as Doujima

1969

1969

Samurai Banners

as Hatanaka Buhei

2004

The Hidden Blade

as Chief Retainer Hori

1984

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

as Kyohei Tasaka

1984

Ana

as Toru Mori

1992

Succession

as Daisaku Kadota

2006

Granny Gabai

as Tofu shop owner

1981

Scars of the Sun

as Shuhei's Father

1964

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