x

Login

Remember me
Forget password ?

Or via social

x

sign up

person_profile-Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Ken Ogata

Date of Birth:

Jul 20, 1937

Country of birth:

Japan

Died:

Oct 05, 2008

Biography of

Ken Ogata

    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​

Photos of

Ken Ogata

Photos ( 1 Photos

Filmography of

Ken Ogata

Found 70 Movies in total

... 2008

Love and Honor

Magohachiro Kibe ( Actor )

... 2006

Granny Gabai

Tofu shop owner ( Actor )

... 2006

A Long Walk

Matsutaro Yasuda ( Actor )

... 2006

The Samurai I Loved

Maki Sukezaemon ( Actor )

... 2005

The Hidden Blade

Chief Retainer Hori ( Actor )

... 2004

Last Quarter

Doujima ( Actor )

... 2004

Izo

Swordsman ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

... 2003

11’09”01—September 11

Villager (segment "Japan") ( Actor )

... 2002

Man Walking on Snow

Nobuo Honma ( Actor )

... 2001

Film Noir

Client ( Actor )

... 2000

... 1999

... 1998

Gonin 2

Toyama Masamichi ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1996

... 1995

The Pillow Book

The Father ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1993

... 1992

Succession

Daisaku Kadota ( Actor )

... 1992

The Dream of Russia

Koudayu Daikokuya ( Actor )

... 1992

My Soul Is Slashed

Shutaro Ishikawa ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1991

Heat Wave

Police ( Actor )

... 1991

Rainbow Kids

Inspector Daigoro Igari ( Actor )

... 1991

Shingo's Ten Duels

The narrator ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

... 1989

Shogun's Shadow

Igo Gyobu ( Actor )

... 1989

The Peacock King

Jiku Ajari ( Actor )

... 1988

A Chaos of Flowers

Kan Yosano ( Actor )

... 1988

Oración

Senzo Wataumi ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

... 1988

... 1988

... 1987

Zegen

Iheiji Muraoka ( Actor )

... 1987

House on Fire

Kazuo Katsura ( Actor )

... 1986

Tracked

Tokichi Sakane ( Actor )

... 1985

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970") ( Actor )

... 1985

Oar

Iwago Tomita ( Actor )

... 1985

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

Kyohei Tasaka ( Actor )

... 1984

Ana

Toru Mori ( Actor )

... 1984

The Catch

Fusajiro Kohama ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1983

The Geisha

Katsuzo ( Actor )

... 1983

The Ballad of Narayama

Tatsuhei ( Actor )

... 1983

The Dropout

Seiji Ohtaki ( Actor )

... 1982

Edo Porn

Hokusai ( Actor )

... 1981

Samurai Reincarnation

Musashi Miyamoto ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1981

Scars of the Sun

Shuhei's Father ( Actor )

... 1981

Why Not?

Furukawa ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1980

Virus

Prof. Tsuchiya ( Actor )

... 1980

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Koga Shiro Samurai ( Actor )

... 1980

Vengeance Is Mine

Iwao Enokizu ( Actor )

... 1979

The Demon

Sokichi Takeshita ( Actor )

... 1978

Mount Hakkoda

Corporal Murayama ( Actor )

... 1977

The Castle of Sand

Kenichi Miki ( Actor )

... 1974

The Last Samurai

Nakamura Hanjiro ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1974

... 1973

Lady with Seven Faces

Scholar ( Actor )

... 1969

Samurai Banners

Hatanaka Buhei ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1969

... 1968

... 1968