Ken Ogata

Actor Jul 20 (died age 71) Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan 1964–2008 (44 year career)

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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 promi…

Known For

Film

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Yukio Mishima

Film

The Ballad of Narayama

Tatsuhei

Film

Vengeance Is Mine

Iwao Enokizu

Film

The Hidden Blade

Chief Retainer Hori

Film

Love and Honor

Magohachiro Kibe

Film

The Pillow Book

The Father

Film

September 11

Villager (segment "Japan")

Film

The Castle of Sand

Kenichi Miki

Filmography

Acting (102)

Movies (78)

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

2008

as Nurarihyon

4.9

Bōshi

2008

as Shunpei Takayama

Love and Honor

as Magohachiro Kibe

A Long Walk

as Matsutaro Yasuda

Granny Gabai

as Tofu shop owner

Journey Along the Silk Road

The Samurai I Loved

as Maki Sukezaemon

A Hardest Night!!

Miracle Banana

as Takashi Yamamura

Izo

2004

as Swordsman

6.1

The Hidden Blade

2004

as Chief Retainer Hori

Last Quarter

as Doujima

Time Limit

The Man Who Wipes Mirrors

2003

September 11

2002

as Villager (segment "Japan")

Man Walking on Snow

as Nobuo Honma

Prince Shōtoku

as Soga no Umako

Film Noir

2000

as Client

7.0

Autumn Blossoms

1999

The Central Quicksand

1998

Gonin 2

1996

as Toyama Masamichi

6.8

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

The Pillow Book

as The Father

Goodbye Japan

Kokkai e ikô!

Succession

as Daisaku Kadota

Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze

1992

The Dream of Russia

1992

as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

6.2

Rainbow Kids

1991

as Inspector Daigoro Igari

Heat Wave

as Police

My Soul Is Slashed

as Shutaro Ishikawa

Goodbye Mama

Shingo's Ten Duels

as The narrator

Shogun's Shadow

1989

as Igo Gyobu

6.8

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

Company Executives

The Peacock King

as Jiku Ajari

A Chaos of Flowers

as Kan Yosano

Totteoki no Seishun

Oración

as Senzo Wataumi

Memories of You

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special

Tokyo Bordello

as Policeman

Zegen

as Iheiji Muraoka

House on Fire

as Kazuo Katsura

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

as Yukio Mishima

Tracked

as Tokichi Sakane

Oar

as Iwago Tomita

Ana

as Toru Mori

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

1984

as Kyohei Tasaka

Okinawan Boys

1983

The Ballad of Narayama

as Tatsuhei

The Geisha

as Katsuzo

The Catch

as Fusajiro

The Dropout

as Seiji Ohtaki

Samurai Reincarnation

as Musashi Miyamoto

Edo Porn

as Hokusai

Scars of the Sun

as Shuhei's Father

Eijanaika

1981

as Furukawa

6.1

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge

1981

as Toyama no Kin-san

Virus

as Prof. Tsuchiya

The Wicked

as Capt. Inoue

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

1980

as Koga Shiro Samurai

Vengeance Is Mine

as Iwao Enokizu

The Demon

as Sokichi Takeshita

Mount Hakkoda

as Corporal Murayama

The Castle of Sand

as Kenichi Miki

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night

as Baian Fujieda

The Last Samurai

as Nakamura Hanjiro

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

1973

as Baian Fujieda

9.0

A Woman Called En

1971

Lady with Seven Faces

1969

as Scholar

Farewell, My Beloved

Samurai Banners

as Hatanaka Buhei

Waga koi waga uta

The House of Wooden Blocks

The Sex Check

間諜

Television (24)

Garden of the Wind

2008

as Teizo Shiratori

Ruri's Island

2005

as Yuzo Nakama

9.0

Say Hello to Black Jack

Prince Shotoku

as Soga no Umako

Mouri Motonari

Gift

as Yujiro Kishiwada（岸和田裕二郎）

SMAP×SMAP

as Skit guest

ナニワ金融道

as 金子高利

橋の雨

Hachigatsu no Love Song

1996

Furuhata Ninzaburo

1994

9.0

Stewardess's Sweetheart

動く壁

Ai wa Doda

Totteoki no Seishun

Toge no Gunzo

as Yoshio Oishi

Ashura no Gotoku

Red Storm

Ōgon no Hibi

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Hissatsu Hitchu Shigotoya Kagyou

Hashū Hankachō

Professional Killers

as Baian Fujieda

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

1966

as Musashibo Benkei

Taikouki

1965

as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi