Name
Ken Ogata
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-07-20
Deathday
2008-10-05 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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).
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- 2006 Love and Honor as Magohachiro Kibe
- 1987 Tokyo Bordello as Policeman
- 1995 The Pillow Book as The Father
- 1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Yukio Mishima
- 1983 The Ballad of Narayama as Tatsuhei
- 1979 Vengeance Is Mine as Iwao Enokizu
- 1996 Gonin 2 as Toyama Masamichi
- 1983 The Geisha as Katsuzo
- 1974 The Last Samurai as Nakamura Hanjiro
- 1981 Samurai Reincarnation as Musashi Miyamoto
- 2005 The Samurai I Loved as Maki Sukezaemon
- 1981 Edo Porn as Hokusai
- 1989 Shogun's Shadow as Igo Gyobu
- 1991 Heat Wave as Police
- 1985 Tracked as Tokichi Sakane
- 1988 Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
- 1977 Mount Hakkoda as Corporal Murayama
- 1981 The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge as Toyama no Kin-san
- 1985 Oar as Iwago Tomita
- 2000 Film Noir as Client
- 1978 The Demon as Sokichi Takeshita
- 2005 Miracle Banana as Takashi Yamamura
- 1980 Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Koga Shiro Samurai
- 2005 A Hardest Night!!
- 2008 Kitaro and the Millennium Curse as Nurarihyon
- 1983 The Catch as Fusajiro
- 1971 A Woman Called En
- 2006 A Long Walk as Matsutaro Yasuda
- 1988 Totteoki no Seishun
- 1999 Autumn Blossoms
- 2002 Man Walking on Snow as Nobuo Honma
- 1993 Kokkai e ikô!
- 1995 Goodbye Japan
- 1996 The Way of Osaka Financing 1
- 1992 The Dream of Russia as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
- 1988 The Peacock King as Jiku Ajari
- 1981 Eijanaika as Furukawa
- 2005 Journey Along the Silk Road
- 1987 Zegen as Iheiji Muraoka
- 1986 House on Fire as Kazuo Katsura
- 1991 My Soul Is Slashed as Shutaro Ishikawa
- 2008 Bōshi as Shunpei Takayama
- 1974 The Castle of Sand as Kenichi Miki
- 1988 A Chaos of Flowers as Kan Yosano
- 1968 The House of Wooden Blocks
- 1968 The Sex Check
- 1988 Memories of You
- 1991 Rainbow Kids as Inspector Daigoro Igari
- 1990 Shingo's Ten Duels as The narrator
- 1989 Company Executives
- 1982 The Dropout as Seiji Ohtaki
- 1980 Virus as Prof. Tsuchiya
- 1973 Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry as Baian Fujieda
- 1974 Professional Killers – Assignment by Night as Baian Fujieda
- 1988 Oración as Senzo Wataumi
- 1969 Farewell, My Beloved
- 1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally as Ronin
- 2002 September 11 as Villager (segment "Japan")
- 2004 Izo as Swordsman
- 2004 Last Quarter as Doujima
- 1969 Lady with Seven Faces as Scholar
- 1983 Okinawan Boys
- 1991 Goodbye Mama
- 1969 Samurai Banners as Hatanaka Buhei
- 2004 The Hidden Blade as Chief Retainer Hori
- 2003 Time Limit
- 1980 The Wicked as Capt. Inoue
- 1984 Jugyo Sankan no Onna as Kyohei Tasaka
- 1984 Ana as Toru Mori
- 1992 Succession as Daisaku Kadota
- 2006 Granny Gabai as Tofu shop owner
- 2003 The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
- 1998 The Central Quicksand
- 1981 Scars of the Sun as Rintaro Motegi (Shuhei's Father)
- 1992 Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
- 1964 間諜
- 2001 Prince Shōtoku as Soga no Umako
- 1969 The Song from My Heart
- 1982 Toge no Gunzo ( 50 episodes ) as Yoshio Oishi
- 1978 Ōgon no Hibi ( 51 episodes ) as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1966 Minamoto no Yoshitsune ( 52 episodes ) as Musashibo Benkei
- 1965 Taikouki ( 52 episodes ) as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi
- 2005 Ruri's Island ( 10 episodes ) as Yuzo Nakama
- 1994 Furuhata Ninzaburo ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Hachigatsu no Love Song ( 11 episodes )
- 1994 Stewardess's Sweetheart ( 12 episodes )
- 1997 Mouri Motonari ( 50 episodes )
- 1992 Ai wa Doda ( 11 episodes )
- 1979 Red Storm ( 1 episode )
- 2008 Garden of the Wind ( 11 episodes ) as Teizo Shiratori
- 1996 橋の雨 ( 1 episode )
- 1996 SMAP×SMAP ( 1 episode ) as Skit guest
- 1996 SMAP×SMAP ( 1 episode ) as Skit Guest
- 1997 Gift ( 1 episode ) as Yujiro Kishiwada（岸和田 裕二郎）
- 1996 ナニワ金融道 ( 6 episodes ) as 金子 高利
- 2001 Prince Shotoku ( 2 episodes ) as Soga no Umako
- 1979 Ashura no Gotoku ( 3 episodes )
- 1994 動く壁 ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Professional Killers ( 33 episodes ) as Baian Fujieda
- 1974 Hashū Hankachō ( 13 episodes )
- 1975 Hissatsu Hitchu Shigotoya Kagyou ( 1 episode )
- 1988 Totteoki no Seishun ( 10 episodes )
- 2003 Say Hello to Black Jack ( 3 episodes )
