Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-07-20 (71 years old)
Deathday
2008-10-05
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Кэн Огата
오가타 켄
绪形拳
Ken Ogata
Akinobu 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 Fuj...
2006
as Magohachiro Kibe
1987
1995
as The Father
1985
as Yukio Mishima
1983
as Tatsuhei
1979
as Iwao Enokizu
1996
as Toyama Masamichi
1983
as Katsuzo
1974
as Nakamura Hanjiro
1981
as Musashi Miyamoto
2005
as Maki Sukezaemon
1981
as Hokusai
1989
as Igo Gyobu
1991
as Police
1985
as Tokichi Sakane
1977
as Corporal Murayama
1981
as Toyama no Kin-san
1985
as Iwago Tomita
2000
as Client
1978
as Sokichi Takeshita
2005
as Takashi Yamamura
1980
as Koga Shiro Samurai
2008
as Nurarihyon
1983
as Fusajiro Kohama
2006
as Matsutaro Yasuda
1999
2001
as Nobuo Honma
1993
1995
1992
as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
1988
as Jiku Ajari
1981
as Furukawa
1987
as Iheiji Muraoka
1986
as Kazuo Katsura
1991
as Shutaro Ishikawa
2008
as Shunpei Takayama
1974
as Kenichi Miki
1988
as Kan Yosano
1968
1988
1991
as Inspector Daigoro Igari
1990
as The narrator
1982
as Seiji Ohtaki
1980
as Prof. Tsuchiya
1973
as Baian Fujieda
1974
as Baian Fujieda
1988
as Senzo Wataumi
2002
as Villager (segment "Japan")
2004
as Swordsman
2004
as Doujima
1969
as Scholar
1983
1991
1969
as Hatanaka Buhei
2004
as Chief Retainer Hori
2003
1980
1984
as Kyohei Tasaka
1984
as Toru Mori
1992
as Daisaku Kadota
2006
as Tofu shop owner
1981
as Shuhei's Father
1964
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