Highest rated movie: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Lowest rated movie: Virus (1980)
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Movies starring Ken Ogata have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 71%.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - released in 1985 - is Ken Ogata's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 172 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Ken Ogata is Virus - released in 1980 - with a score of 38% based on 3 reviews.
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 the doctor involved in the end-of-life care of elderly patients.
His sons Likewise, and Naoto Ogata are actors. NHK selected Naoto for the starring role of Oda Nobunaga in the 1992 Taiga drama Nobunaga King of Zipangu; As played Inaba Masakatsu in Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000).
Ken Ogata has acted in films with Nenji Kobayashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Sakae Umezu and Sonny Chiba.
Ken Ogata has worked with these film directors: Shōhei Imamura, Yoji Yamada, Kinji Fukasaku and Shintarō Katsu.
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