Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 20, 1937
Died
Oct 05, 2008
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Credits
102 titles
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 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
Filmography
Garden of the Wind
Teizo Shiratori
Bōshi
Shunpei Takayama
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Nurarihyon
Love and Honor
Magohachiro Kibe
Granny Gabai
Tofu shop owner
A Long Walk
Matsutaro Yasuda
A Hardest Night!!
Miracle Banana
Takashi Yamamura
The Samurai I Loved
Maki Sukezaemon
Ruri's Island
Yuzo Nakama
Journey Along the Silk Road
The Hidden Blade
Chief Retainer Hori
Last Quarter
Doujima
Izo
Swordsman
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Time Limit
Say Hello to Black Jack
Man Walking on Snow
Nobuo Honma
September 11
Villager (segment "Japan")
Prince Shotoku
Soga no Umako
Prince Shōtoku
Soga no Umako
Film Noir
Client
Autumn Blossoms
The Central Quicksand
Gift
Yujiro Kishiwada（岸和田 裕二郎）
Mouri Motonari
橋の雨
Hachigatsu no Love Song
Gonin 2
Toyama Masamichi
SMAP×SMAP
Skit guest
ナニワ金融道
金子 高利
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
Goodbye Japan
The Pillow Book
The Father
Furuhata Ninzaburo
Stewardess's Sweetheart
動く壁
Kokkai e ikô!
Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
Succession
Daisaku Kadota
The Dream of Russia
Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
Ai wa Doda
My Soul Is Slashed
Shutaro Ishikawa
Goodbye Mama
Heat Wave
Police
Rainbow Kids
Inspector Daigoro Igari
Shingo's Ten Duels
The narrator
Company Executives
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Ronin
Shogun's Shadow
Igo Gyobu