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Ken Ogata
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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 Bo…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ogata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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2008
Garden of the Wind
TV show Teizo Shiratori
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2008
Bōshi
Movie Shunpei Takayama
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2008
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Movie Nurarihyon
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2006
Love and Honor
Movie Magohachiro Kibe
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2006
Granny Gabai
Movie Tofu shop owner
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2006
A Long Walk
Movie Matsutaro Yasuda
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2005
A Hardest Night!!
Movie
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2005
The Samurai I Loved
Movie Maki Sukezaemon
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2005
Miracle Banana
Movie Takashi Yamamura
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2005
Ruri's Island
TV show Yuzo Nakama
- 2005
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2004
The Hidden Blade
Movie Chief Retainer Hori
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2004
Last Quarter
Movie Doujima
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2004
Izo
Movie Swordsman
- 2003
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2003
Time Limit
Movie
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2003
Say Hello to Black Jack
TV show
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2002
Man Walking on Snow
Movie Nobuo Honma
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2002
September 11
Movie Villager (segment "Japan")
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2001
Prince Shotoku
TV show Soga no Umako
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2001
Prince Shōtoku
Movie Soga no Umako
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2000
Film Noir
Movie Client
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1999
Autumn Blossoms
Movie
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1998
The Central Quicksand
Movie
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1997
Gift
TV show Yujiro Kishiwada（岸和田 裕二郎）
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1997
Mouri Motonari
TV show
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1996
橋の雨
TV show
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1996
Hachigatsu no Love Song
TV show
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1996
Gonin 2
Movie Toyama Masamichi
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1996
SMAP×SMAP
TV show Skit guest
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1996
ナニワ金融道
TV show 金子 高利
- 1996
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1995
Goodbye Japan
Movie
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1995
The Pillow Book
Movie The Father
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1994
Furuhata Ninzaburo
TV show
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1994
Stewardess's Sweetheart
TV show
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1994
動く壁
TV show
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1993
Kokkai e ikô!
Movie
- 1992
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1992
Succession
Movie Daisaku Kadota
