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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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01 January 2005
Actor Ken Ogata takes you on an archaeological journey down the legendary Silk Road, the ancient trading route between China and the West.
16 February 1974
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
21 June 1969
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets s
21 February 1969
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.
01 June 1991
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 wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.
15 January 1985
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
01 January 1990
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 father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son.
01 October 1988
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.
28 June 1980
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.
04 June 1977
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.
20 September 1985
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 November 25th, 1970.
06 June 1981
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers.
10 September 1983
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day.
26 October 1985
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 crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
29 April 1983
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.
01 March 1969
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.
29 August 1992
A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremony.
13 June 1987
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo.
14 January 1989
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 led by a strong leader.
07 October 1978
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 with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
10 December 1988
Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell.
01 September 1995
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan.
07 September 2004
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.
09 February 1991
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.
04 September 2002
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
01 May 1993
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
10 June 1989
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
15 January 1991
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 interchange of roles takes place.
29 May 1971
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.
12 September 1981
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 Bakin.
12 April 1986
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nuk
04 February 1989
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village.
02 June 1987
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia.
24 April 1981
Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople.
01 December 2006
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.
21 April 1979
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
09 July 2008
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.
02 October 1982
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 prostitute.
26 June 1980
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.
01 April 2006
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town.
20 September 1974
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.
08 January 1981
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 Restoration.
29 September 1973
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.
05 March 1988
A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her.
22 October 2005
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and wakes, songs, dances, and often disgustingly crude jokes.
19 October 1974
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
30 October 2004
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.
29 October 1983
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.
13 March 1984
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies.
10 November 2001
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state.
02 September 1995
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese government's response, declare independence.
06 September 1992
A dramatization of veteran actor Ryo Ikebe's essay of the same name about his parents' eccentric marriage.
20 April 1991
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 her life.
25 June 2003
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies.
04 November 2000
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 snow that surrounds them.
14 February 1981
In a night painted with raw, incendiary desire, the story follows Shuhei as he slips from a morbid funeral into a world pulsing with illicit passions.
01 October 2005
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 plot to kill her and her infant child.
07 September 2002
A young-at-heart widower leads an independent life in a quiet fishing town in northern Japan. He eases his loneliness by walking in the snow and studying the growth of fish at a breeding center.
