Ken Ogata
Acting
Born 1937-07-20
Died 2008-10-05
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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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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Filmography
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Furuhata Ninzaburo
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Professional Killers
Taikouki
Toge no Gunzo
The Ballad of Narayama
Ōgon no Hibi
Ruri's Island
Garden of the Wind
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Oar
The Pillow Book
Say Hello to Black Jack
Mouri Motonari
Virus
Samurai Reincarnation
The Peacock King
Edo Porn
Gift
Shogun's Shadow
Vengeance Is Mine
Miracle Banana
Love and Honor
The Castle of Sand
Kokkai e ikô!
Ai wa Doda
Tokyo Bordello
House on Fire
Rainbow Kids
Heat Wave
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Okinawan Boys
September 11
The Demon
Tracked
Granny Gabai
Mount Hakkoda
Izo
The Geisha
A Hardest Night!!
Ashura no Gotoku
Samurai Banners
Eijanaika
The Wicked
Gonin 2
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Succession
Hachigatsu no Love Song
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Stewardess's Sweetheart
A Chaos of Flowers
Zegen
間諜
Last Quarter
The Last Samurai
ナニワ金融道
A Long Walk
The Dream of Russia
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