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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.626 |
| Birthday | 1937-07-20 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 緒形拳, Кэн Огата, 오가타 켄, 绪形拳, |
2006
Love and Honor
7.431/80
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
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Love and Honor
1995
The Pillow Book
6.4/162
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
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The Pillow Book
1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7.8/258
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of Nov...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
7.465/156
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should ref...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
7.523/130
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Vengeance Is Mine
1996
Gonin 2
6.909/11
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and...
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Gonin 2
1983
The Geisha
6.3/7
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The Geisha
1974
The Last Samurai
7.8/18
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....
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The Last Samurai
1981
Samurai Reincarnation
5.917/30
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Sata...
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Samurai Reincarnation
2005
The Samurai I Loved
7.1/11
A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a p...
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The Samurai I Loved
1981
Edo Porn
6/33
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba...
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Edo Porn
1989
Shogun's Shadow
6.7/18
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are l...
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Shogun's Shadow
1985
Tracked
5.6/7
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous cr...
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Tracked
1977
Mount Hakkoda
6.769/13
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Mount Hakkoda
1985
Oar
5.7/7
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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Oar
2000
Film Noir
7/3
The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the sno...
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Film Noir
1978
The Demon
6.3/31
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
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The Demon
2005
Miracle Banana
0/0
Sachiko Mishima a young Japanese woman get sent to Haiti as a dispatch member for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She thinks she is going to the hol...
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Miracle Banana
1980
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
8/1
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the po...
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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
2005
A Hardest Night!!
6.2/6
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and w...
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A Hardest Night!!
2008
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
4.9/8
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro a...
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Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
1983
The Catch
6.167/6
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
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The Catch
2006
A Long Walk
7/10
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relation...
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A Long Walk
2001
Man Walking on Snow
5.7/10
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...
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Man Walking on Snow
1995
Goodbye Japan
0/0
Yukihiko's first film.
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Goodbye Japan
1992
The Dream of Russia
6.8/9
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Rus...
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The Dream of Russia
1988
The Peacock King
6.6/9
Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims t...
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The Peacock King
1968
The Sex Check
0/0
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...
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The Sex Check
1981
Why Not?
6.4/15
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
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Why Not?
1987
Zegen
6.417/12
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level milit...
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Zegen
1986
House on Fire
4.2/4
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
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House on Fire
2008
Bōshi
0/0
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Bōshi
1974
The Castle of Sand
7.31/42
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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The Castle of Sand
1988
A Chaos of Flowers
8/1
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...
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A Chaos of Flowers
1968
The House of Wooden Blocks
0/0
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of im...
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The House of Wooden Blocks
1991
Rainbow Kids
6.3/9
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchang...
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Rainbow Kids
1988
Memories of You
0/0
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has le...
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Memories of You
1991
My Soul Is Slashed
6/2
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wr...
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My Soul Is Slashed
1990
Shingo's Ten Duels
0/0
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa...
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Shingo's Ten Duels
1989
Company Executives
6/4
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Company Executives
1982
The Dropout
6/2
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostit...
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The Dropout
1980
Virus
6.4/52
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world...
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Virus
1988
Oracion
6/2
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown,...
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Oracion
1974
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
10/1
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
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Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1973
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
10/1
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Da...
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Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1969
Farewell, My Beloved
0/0
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, ho...
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Farewell, My Beloved
1989
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
6.354/41
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middl...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
2002
11'09''01 September 11
6.529/104
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...
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11'09''01 September 11
2004
Last Quarter
6.2/8
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently comm...
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Last Quarter
2004
Izo
6.1/88
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Inst...
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Izo
1969
Lady with Seven Faces
0/0
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal 5...
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Lady with Seven Faces
1983
Okinawan Boys
0/0
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Okinawan Boys
1991
Goodbye Mama
0/0
A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in he...
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Goodbye Mama
1969
Samurai Banners
7.5/16
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He co...
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Samurai Banners
2004
The Hidden Blade
7.414/105
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...
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The Hidden Blade
2003
Time Limit
5/1
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Ka...
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Time Limit
1980
The Wicked
7/3
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
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The Wicked
1984
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
0/0
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised t...
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
1984
Ana
0/0
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup expose...
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Ana
1992
Succession
6/1
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
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Succession
2006
Granny Gabai
7.5/2
Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts hi...
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Granny Gabai
2003
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
0/0
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppa...
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The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
1998
The Central Quicksand
0/0
A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on su...
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The Central Quicksand
1991
Heat Wave
5.8/11
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Heat Wave
1981
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
0/0
Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of Nezum...
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The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1999
Autumn Blossoms
0/0
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Autumn Blossoms
1993
Kokkai e ikô!
0/0
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
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Kokkai e ikô!
1987
Tokyo Bordello
5.3/6
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the br...
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Tokyo Bordello
1988
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
0/0
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, t...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1971
A Woman Called En
0/0
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is r...
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A Woman Called En
1988
Totteoki no Seishun
0/0
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Totteoki no Seishun
1996
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
6/1
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Y...
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The Way of Osaka Financing 1
2005
Journey Along the Silk Road
0/0
Actor Ken Ogata takes you on an archaeological journey down the legendary Silk Road, the ancient trading route between China and the West. Also explor...
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