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: Acting

Born: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, 1937-07-20

Died: 2008-10-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	間諜		0
2	1968	The Sex Check		0
3	1968	The House of Wooden Blocks		70
4	1969	Farewell, My Beloved		0
5	1969	Samurai Banners	Hatanaka Buhei	76
6	1969	Lady with Seven Faces	Scholar	0
7	1971	A Woman Called En		0
8	1973	Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry	Baian Fujieda	90
9	1974	Professional Killers – Assignment by Night	Baian Fujieda	100
10	1974	The Last Samurai	Nakamura Hanjiro	78
11	1974	The Castle of Sand	Kenichi Miki	74
12	1977	Mount Hakkoda	Corporal Murayama	64
13	1978	The Demon	Sokichi Takeshita	65
14	1979	Vengeance Is Mine	Iwao Enokizu	75
15	1980	Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo	Koga Shiro Samurai	80
16	1980	Virus	Prof. Tsuchiya	63
17	1980	The Wicked		60
18	1981	Why Not?	Furukawa	64
19	1981	Scars of the Sun	Shuhei's Father	0
20	1981	The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge	Toyama no Kin-san	0
21	1981	Samurai Reincarnation	Musashi Miyamoto	60
22	1981	Edo Porn	Hokusai	60
23	1982	The Dropout	Seiji Ohtaki	70
24	1983	The Ballad of Narayama	Tatsuhei	75
25	1983	The Geisha	Katsuzo	64
26	1983	Okinawan Boys		0
27	1983	The Catch	Fusajiro Kohama	62
28	1984	Ana	Toru Mori	0
29	1984	Jugyo Sankan no Onna	Kyohei Tasaka	0
30	1985	Oar	Iwago Tomita	57
31	1985	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Yukio Mishima	78
32	1985	Tracked	Tokichi Sakane	56
33	1986	House on Fire	Kazuo Katsura	48
34	1987	Zegen	Iheiji Muraoka	65
35	1987	Tokyo Bordello		53
36	1988	Totteoki no Seishun		0
37	1988	Memories of You		0
38	1988	Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special		0
39	1988	Oración	Senzo Wataumi	60
40	1988	A Chaos of Flowers	Kan Yosano	80
41	1988	The Peacock King	Jiku Ajari	60
42	1989	Shogun's Shadow	Igo Gyobu	69
43	1989	Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally		64
44	1989	Company Executives		60
45	1990	Shingo's Ten Duels	The narrator	0
46	1991	Rainbow Kids	Inspector Daigoro Igari	64
47	1991	Heat Wave	Police	59
48	1991	Goodbye Mama		0
49	1991	My Soul Is Slashed	Shutaro Ishikawa	60
50	1992	The Dream of Russia	Koudayu Daikokuya - captain	62
51	1992	Succession	Daisaku Kadota	60
52	1992	Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze		0
53	1993	Kokkai e ikô!		0
54	1995	The Pillow Book	The Father	64
55	1995	Goodbye Japan		0
56	1996	The Way of Osaka Financing 1		60
57	1996	Gonin 2	Toyama Masamichi	70
58	1998	The Central Quicksand		0
59	1999	Autumn Blossoms		0
60	2000	Film Noir	Client	70
61	2001	Man Walking on Snow	Nobuo Honma	57
62	2002	11’09”01—September 11	Villager (segment "Japan")	64
63	2003	Time Limit		50
64	2003	The Man Who Wipes Mirrors		0
65	2004	Izo	Swordsman	61
66	2004	Last Quarter	Doujima	62
67	2004	The Hidden Blade	Chief Retainer Hori	74
68	2005	Journey Along the Silk Road		0
69	2005	The Samurai I Loved	Maki Sukezaemon	71
70	2005	Miracle Banana	Takashi Yamamura	0
71	2005	A Hardest Night!!		62
72	2006	A Long Walk	Matsutaro Yasuda	70
73	2006	Granny Gabai	Tofu shop owner	73
74	2006	Love and Honor	Magohachiro Kibe	74
75	2008	Kitaro and the Millennium Curse	Nurarihyon	49
76	2008	Bōshi	Shunpei Takayama	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Taikouki	Toyotomi no Hideyoshi	0
2	1966	Minamoto no Yoshitsune	Musashibo Benkei	0
3	1972	必殺仕掛人（ＴＶシリーズ）		0
4	1972	Professional Killers	Baian Fujieda	73
5	1974	Hashū Hankachō		0
6	1975	必殺必中仕事屋稼業		0
7	1978	Ōgon no Hibi	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	0
8	1979	Ashura no Gotoku		50
9	1979	Akai Arashi		0
10	1982	Toge no Gunzo	Yoshio Oishi	0
11	1988	Totteoki no Seishun		0
12	1992	Ai wa Doda		0
13	1994	動く壁		0
14	1994	Stewardess's Sweetheart		0
15	1994	Furuhata Ninzaburo		90
16	1996	ナニワ金融道	金子高利	60
17	1996	SMAP×SMAP	Skit guest	85
18	1996	SMAP×SMAP	Skit Guest	85
19	1996	Hachigatsu no Love Song		0
20	1996	橋の雨		0
21	1997	Mouri Motonari		0
22	1997	Gift	Yujiro Kishiwada（岸和田裕二郎）	60
23	2001	Prince Shotoku	Soga no Umako	60
24	2005	Ruri's Island	Yuzo Nakama	90
25	2008	Garden of the Wind	Teizo Shiratori	0

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