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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ogata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Known For

Magohachiro Kibe

武士の一分

Policeman

吉原炎上

The Father

The Pillow Book

Yukio Mishima

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Tatsuhei

楢山節考

Iwao Enokizu

復讐するは我にあり

Toyama Masamichi

GONIN2

Katsuzo

陽暉楼

Nakamura Hanjiro

狼よ落日を斬れ

Musashi Miyamoto

魔界転生

Maki Sukezaemon

蝉しぐれ

Hokusai

北斎漫画

Igo Gyobu

将軍家光の乱心 激突

Police

陽炎

Tokichi Sakane

薄化粧

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Corporal Murayama

八甲田山

Toyama no Kin-san

怪盗鼠小僧といれずみ判官

Iwago Tomita

櫂

Client

殺し

Sokichi Takeshita

鬼畜

Takashi Yamamura

ミラクルバナナ

Koga Shiro Samurai

影の軍団 服部半蔵

寝ずの番

Nurarihyon

ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 千年呪い歌

Fusajiro

魚影の群れ

婉という女

Matsutaro Yasuda

長い散歩

とっておきの青春

あつもの

Nobuo Honma

歩く、人

国会へ行こう！

さよならニッポン！

Naniwa Kinyudo 1

Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

おろしや国酔夢譚

Jiku Ajari

孔雀王子

Furukawa

ええじゃないか

Journey Along the Silk Road

Iheiji Muraoka

女衒

Kazuo Katsura

火宅の人

Shutaro Ishikawa

咬みつきたい

Shunpei Takayama

帽子

Kenichi Miki

砂の器

Kan Yosano

華の乱

積木の箱

セックス・チェック　第二の性

ラブ・ストーリーを君に

Inspector Daigoro Igari

大誘拐　RAINBOW KIDS

The narrator

新吾十番勝負

社葬

Seiji Ohtaki

野獣刑事

Prof. Tsuchiya

復活の日

Baian Fujieda

必殺仕掛人　梅安蟻地獄

Baian Fujieda

必殺仕掛人 春雪仕掛針

Senzo Wataumi

優駿 ORACIÓN

永訣

Ronin

座頭市

Villager (segment "Japan")

11’09”01 - September 11

Swordsman

イゾー

Doujima

下弦の月〜ラスト・クォーター

Scholar

七つの顔の女

オキナワの少年

グッバイ・ママ

Hatanaka Buhei

風林火山

Chief Retainer Hori

隠し剣 鬼の爪

タイムリミット

Capt. Inoue

わるいやつら

Kyohei Tasaka

授業参観の女

Toru Mori

盲点（あな）

Daisaku Kadota

継承盃

Tofu shop owner

佐賀のがばいばあちゃん

ミラーを拭く男

松本清張スペシャル 中央流沙

Shuhei's Father

太陽のきずあと

そよ風ときにはつむじ風

間諜

Soga no Umako

聖徳太子

わが恋わが歌