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Ken Ogata
Acting
20 Jul 1937
† 05 Oct 2008
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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 promi...
Also Known As
Кэн Огата, 오가타 켄, 绪形拳, Ken Ogata, Akinobu Ogata






































