Ken Ogata
Acting
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
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
Journey Along the Silk Road
The Hidden Blade
Chief Retainer Hori
Last Quarter
Doujima
Izo
Swordsman
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Time Limit
Man Walking on Snow
Nobuo Honma
September 11
Villager (segment "Japan")
Prince Shōtoku
Soga no Umako
Film Noir
Client
Autumn Blossoms
The Central Quicksand
Gonin 2
Toyama Masamichi
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
Goodbye Japan
The Pillow Book
The Father
Kokkai e ikô!
Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
Succession
Daisaku Kadota
The Dream of Russia
Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
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
The Peacock King
Jiku Ajari
A Chaos of Flowers
Kan Yosano
Oración
Senzo Wataumi
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
Memories of You
Totteoki no Seishun
Tokyo Bordello
Policeman
Zegen
Iheiji Muraoka
House on Fire
Kazuo Katsura
Tracked
Tokichi Sakane
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Yukio Mishima
Oar
Iwago Tomita
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Kyohei Tasaka
Ana
Toru Mori
The Catch
Fusajiro
Okinawan Boys
The Geisha
Katsuzo
The Ballad of Narayama
Tatsuhei
The Dropout
Seiji Ohtaki
Edo Porn
Hokusai
Samurai Reincarnation
Musashi Miyamoto
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
Toyama no Kin-san
Scars of the Sun
Shuhei's Father
Why Not?
Furukawa
The Wicked
Capt. Inoue
Virus
Prof. Tsuchiya
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Koga Shiro Samurai
Vengeance Is Mine
Iwao Enokizu
The Demon
Sokichi Takeshita
Mount Hakkoda
Corporal Murayama
The Castle of Sand
Kenichi Miki
The Last Samurai
Nakamura Hanjiro
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Baian Fujieda
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Baian Fujieda
A Woman Called En
Waga koi waga uta
Lady with Seven Faces
Scholar
Samurai Banners
Hatanaka Buhei
Farewell, My Beloved
The House of Wooden Blocks
The Sex Check
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