
Ken Ogata
Born July 20, 1937 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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
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Succession

Shogun's Shadow

Oar

Tracked

Samurai Banners

Mount Hakkoda

Rainbow Kids

Last Quarter

Gonin 2

12 Ounces to Glory

The Dream of Russia

Heat Wave

The Demon

The Last Samurai

A Hardest Night!!

The Dropout

Shingo's Ten Duels

Zegen

The Wicked

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

Granny Gabai

A Long Walk

Company Executives

The Song from My Heart

Eijanaika

The Hidden Blade

My Soul Is Slashed

The House of Wooden Blocks

Oración

The Samurai I Loved

The Catch

A Chaos of Flowers

Goodbye Mama

Kokkai e ikô!

Okinawan Boys

Miracle Banana

The Man Who Wipes Mirrors

A Woman Called En

Memories of You

命捧げ候 夢追い坂の決闘

The Sex Check

Man Walking on Snow

間諜

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special

Ana

Film Noir

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

Time Limit

Scars of the Sun

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze

Prince Shōtoku

The Central Quicksand

Farewell, My Beloved

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night

Lady with Seven Faces

Goodbye Japan

Journey Along the Silk Road

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge




































