Actor
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 promi ...

Known For
Acting
2008 -- Bōshi | Shunpei Takayama
2008 -- Kitaro and the Millennium Curse | Nurarihyon
2006 -- Love and Honor | Magohachiro Kibe
2006 -- Granny Gabai | Tofu shop owner
2006 -- A Long Walk | Matsutaro Yasuda
2005 -- A Hardest Night!! |
2005 -- Miracle Banana | Takashi Yamamura
2005 -- The Samurai I Loved | Maki Sukezaemon
2005 -- Journey Along the Silk Road |
2004 -- The Hidden Blade | Chief Retainer Hori
2004 -- Last Quarter | Doujima
2004 -- Izo | Swordsman
2003 -- The Man Who Wipes Mirrors |
2003 -- Time Limit |
2002 -- 11’09”01—September 11 | Villager (segment "Japan")
2001 -- Man Walking on Snow | Nobuo Honma
2000 -- Film Noir | Client
1999 -- Autumn Blossoms |
1998 -- The Central Quicksand |
1996 -- Gonin 2 | Toyama Masamichi
1996 -- The Way of Osaka Financing 1 |
1995 -- Goodbye Japan |
1995 -- The Pillow Book | The Father
1993 -- Kokkai e ikô! |
1992 -- Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze |
1992 -- Succession | Daisaku Kadota
1992 -- The Dream of Russia | Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
1991 -- My Soul Is Slashed | Shutaro Ishikawa
1991 -- Goodbye Mama |
1991 -- Heat Wave | Police
1991 -- Rainbow Kids | Inspector Daigoro Igari
1990 -- Shingo's Ten Duels | The narrator
1989 -- Company Executives |
1989 -- Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally |
1989 -- Shogun's Shadow | Igo Gyobu
1988 -- The Peacock King | Jiku Ajari
1988 -- A Chaos of Flowers | Kan Yosano
1988 -- Oración | Senzo Wataumi
1988 -- Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special |
1988 -- Memories of You |
1988 -- Totteoki no Seishun |
1987 -- Tokyo Bordello |
1987 -- Zegen | Iheiji Muraoka
1986 -- House on Fire | Kazuo Katsura
1985 -- Tracked | Tokichi Sakane
1985 -- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")
1985 -- Oar | Iwago Tomita
1984 -- Jugyo Sankan no Onna | Kyohei Tasaka
1984 -- Ana | Toru Mori
1983 -- The Catch | Fusajiro Kohama
1983 -- Okinawan Boys |
1983 -- The Geisha | Katsuzo
1983 -- The Ballad of Narayama | Tatsuhei
1982 -- The Dropout | Seiji Ohtaki
1981 -- Edo Porn | Hokusai
1981 -- Samurai Reincarnation | Musashi Miyamoto
1981 -- The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge | Toyama no Kin-san
1981 -- Scars of the Sun | Shuhei's Father
1981 -- Why Not? | Furukawa
1980 -- The Wicked |
1980 -- Virus | Prof. Tsuchiya
1980 -- Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo | Koga Shiro Samurai
1979 -- Vengeance Is Mine | Iwao Enokizu
1978 -- The Demon | Sokichi Takeshita
1977 -- Mount Hakkoda | Corporal Murayama
1974 -- The Castle of Sand | Kenichi Miki
1974 -- The Last Samurai | Nakamura Hanjiro
1974 -- Professional Killers – Assignment by Night | Baian Fujieda
1973 -- Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry | Baian Fujieda
1971 -- A Woman Called En |
1969 -- Lady with Seven Faces | Scholar
1969 -- Samurai Banners | Hatanaka Buhei
1969 -- Farewell, My Beloved |
1968 -- The House of Wooden Blocks |
1968 -- The Sex Check |
1964 -- 間諜 |
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