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Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Known For Acting
Birthday Jul 20, 1937
Died Oct 05, 2008 (71)
Birthplace Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Jun 02, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 be ... st 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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11’09”01—September 11

11’09”01—September 11

2002

as Villager (segment "Japan")

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

1995

as The Father

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Television Credits

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

as Musashibo Benkei

Episodes: 52

First Aired: Jan 02, 1966

Taikouki

as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi

Episodes: 52

First Aired: Jan 03, 1965

Ōgon no Hibi

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Episodes: 51

First Aired: Jan 08, 1978

Toge no Gunzo

as Yoshio Oishi

Episodes: 50

First Aired: Jan 10, 1982

Professional Killers

as Baian Fujieda

Episodes: 33

First Aired: Sep 02, 1972

Garden of the Wind

as Teizo Shiratori

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Oct 09, 2008

Ruri's Island

as Yuzo Nakama

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Apr 16, 2005

ナニワ金融道

as 金子 高利

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Feb 16, 1996

Prince Shotoku

as Soga no Umako

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Nov 10, 2001

Gift

as Yujiro Kishiwada(岸和田 裕二郎)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 16, 1997

Mouri Motonari

Episodes: 50

First Aired: Jan 05, 1997

Hashū Hankachō

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Apr 06, 1974

Stewardess's Sweetheart

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Apr 12, 1994

Hachigatsu no Love Song

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jul 01, 1996

Ai wa Doda

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Apr 17, 1992

Ashura no Gotoku

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Jan 13, 1979

Furuhata Ninzaburo

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 13, 1994

Akai Arashi

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 30, 1979

橋の雨

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 19, 1996

SMAP×SMAP

as Skit guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 15, 1996

SMAP×SMAP

as Skit Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 15, 1996

動く壁

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 21, 1994

必殺必中仕事屋稼業

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 04, 1975

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