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​

Most Known For

SMAP×SMAP

as Skit guest

SMAP×SMAP

as Skit Guest

Furuhata Ninzaburo

Professional Killers

as Baian Fujieda

Taikouki

as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi

Mouri Motonari

Toge no Gunzo

as Yoshio Oishi

Garden of the Wind

as Teizo Shiratori

Ōgon no Hibi

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

as Yukio Mishima

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

as Musashibo Benkei

Say Hello to Black Jack

Izo

as Swordsman

Ruri's Island

as Yuzo Nakama

Stewardess's Sweetheart

Edo Porn

as Hokusai

Ai wa Doda

Virus

as Prof. Tsuchiya

The Pillow Book

as The Father

橋の雨