Native name 緒形拳 Name Ken Ogata Nationality Japanese Role Actor | Occupation Actor Years active 1960–2008 | |
Full Name 緒形 明伸 (Akinobu Ogata) Born July 20, 1937 ( 1937-07-20 ) Tokyo, Kanto region, Japan Awards Japan Academy PrizeBest Actor1979 The Demon1984 The Ballad of Narayama1987 House on Fire Died October 5, 2008, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Spouse Norie Takakura (m. 1966–2008) TV shows Ruri no Shima, Boshi, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun Movies Vengeance Is Mine, The Ballad of Narayama, The Geisha, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Demon Similar People Naoto Ogata, Kanta Ogata, Shohei Imamura, Shiro Sano, Hideo Gosha | ||
Children Naoto Ogata, Kanta Ogata |
Vengeance Is Mine (1979) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Ken Ogata (緒形拳 Ogata Ken; 20 July 1937 – 5 October 2008) was a Japanese actor.
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- Vengeance Is Mine 1979 ORIGINAL TRAILER HD 1080p
- Popular Videos Ken Ogata
- Life
- Television
- Honours
- Filmography
- References
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Life
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). 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).
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 are actors.