
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).
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Acting (75 movies)

Love and Honor
2006

Tokyo Bordello
1987

The Pillow Book
1995

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985

The Ballad of Narayama
1983

Vengeance Is Mine
1979

Gonin 2
1996

The Geisha
1983

The Last Samurai
1974

Samurai Reincarnation
1981

The Samurai I Loved
2005

Edo Porn
1981

Shogun's Shadow
1989

Heat Wave
1991

Tracked
1985

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1988

Mount Hakkoda
1977

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1981

Oar
1985

Film Noir
2000

The Demon
1978

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
1980

A Hardest Night!!
2005

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
2008

The Catch
1983

A Woman Called En
1971

A Long Walk
2006

Totteoki no Seishun
1988

Autumn Blossoms
1999

Man Walking on Snow
2001

Kokkai e ikô!
1993

Goodbye Japan
1995

The Way of Osaka Financing 1
1996

The Dream of Russia
1992

The Peacock King
1988

Why Not?
1981

Journey Along the Silk Road
2005

Zegen
1987

House on Fire
1986

My Soul Is Slashed
1991

The Castle of Sand
1974

A Chaos of Flowers
1988

The House of Wooden Blocks
1968

The Sex Check
1968

Memories of You
1988

Rainbow Kids
1991

Shingo's Ten Duels
1990

Company Executives
1989

The Dropout
1982

Virus
1980

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1973

Oración
1988

Farewell, My Beloved
1969

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989

11 Minutes, 9 Seconds, 1 Image
2002

Izo
2004

Last Quarter
2004

Lady with Seven Faces
1969

Okinawan Boys
1983

Goodbye Mama
1991

Samurai Banners
1969

The Hidden Blade
2004

Time Limit
2003

The Wicked
1980

Jugyo Sankan no Onna
1984

Ana
1984

Succession
1992

Granny Gabai
2006

The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
2003

The Central Quicksand
1998

Scars of the Sun
1981

Soyokaze Toki ni wa Tsumujikaze
1992

間諜
1964

Prince Shōtoku
2001
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