Ken Ogata
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1937-07-20
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: Кэн Огата, 오가타 켄, 绪形拳
Love and Honor
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
release : 2006.12.01popularis : 7.174
Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the...
release : 1987.06.13popularis : 5.218
The Pillow Book
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
release : 1995.09.01popularis : 12.179
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
release : 1985.09.20popularis : 19.991
The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
release : 1983.04.29popularis : 11.968
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
release : 1979.04.21popularis : 11.079
Gonin 2
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped...
release : 1996.06.29popularis : 5.362
The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...
release : 1983.09.10popularis : 4.139
The Last Samurai
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....
release : 1974.09.20popularis : 2.269
Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to...
release : 1981.06.06popularis : 6.486
The Samurai I Loved
A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a...
release : 2005.10.01popularis : 2.117
Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...
release : 1981.09.12popularis : 12.217
Shogun's Shadow
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are...
release : 1989.01.14popularis : 4.71
Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
release : 1991.02.09popularis : 7.16
Tracked
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous...
release : 1985.10.26popularis : 3.621
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns,...
release : 1988.07.12popularis : 1.97
Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
release : 1977.06.04popularis : 4.126
The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of...
release : 1981.04.24popularis : 2.598
Oar
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
release : 1985.01.15popularis : 11.143
Film Noir
The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...
release : 2000.11.04popularis : 1.257
The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...
release : 1978.10.07popularis : 6.343
Miracle Banana
Sachiko Mishima a young Japanese woman get sent to Haiti as a dispatch member for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She thinks she is going to the...
release : 2005.10.01popularis : 2.545
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the...
release : 1980.02.23popularis : 1.4
A Hardest Night!!
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous...
release : 2005.10.22popularis : 2.474
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...
release : 2008.07.09popularis : 9.58
The Catch
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
release : 1983.10.29popularis : 1.908
A Woman Called En
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...
release : 1971.05.29popularis : 2.389
A Long Walk
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a...
release : 2006.04.01popularis : 2.363
Man Walking on Snow
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 2.565
Kokkai e ikô!
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
release : 1993.05.01popularis : 1.158
Goodbye Japan
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese...
release : 1995.09.02popularis : 0.972
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by...
release : 1996.02.16popularis : 1.96
The Dream of Russia
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of...
release : 1992.06.25popularis : 2.954
The Peacock King
Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims...
release : 1988.12.10popularis : 5.496
Why Not?
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
release : 1981.01.08popularis : 4.771
Journey Along the Silk Road
Actor Ken Ogata takes you on an archaeological journey down the legendary Silk Road, the ancient trading route between China and the West. Also...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 0.92
Zegen
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...
release : 1987.06.02popularis : 1.652
House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
release : 1986.04.12popularis : 3.198
My Soul Is Slashed
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the...
release : 1991.06.01popularis : 1.018
The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
release : 1974.10.19popularis : 5.313
A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...
release : 1988.10.01popularis : 1.994
The House of Wooden Blocks
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...
release : 1968.10.30popularis : 1.059
The Sex Check
Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...
release : 1968.06.01popularis : 1.774
Memories of You
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...
release : 1988.03.05popularis : 3.101
Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...
release : 1991.01.15popularis : 1.578
Shingo's Ten Duels
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.7
Company Executives
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
release : 1989.06.10popularis : 1.906
The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced...
release : 1982.10.02popularis : 1.956
Virus
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the...
release : 1980.06.26popularis : 10.008
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
release : 1974.02.16popularis : 2.72
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness....
release : 1973.09.29popularis : 1.881
Oracion
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...
release : 1988.07.23popularis : 1.333
Farewell, My Beloved
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She,...
release : 1969.02.21popularis : 0.629
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...
release : 1989.02.04popularis : 6.275
11’09”01—September 11
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
release : 2002.09.04popularis : 13.106
Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....
release : 2004.09.07popularis : 7.091
Last Quarter
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently...
release : 2004.09.25popularis : 1.169
Lady with Seven Faces
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal...
release : 1969.06.21popularis : 2.623
Goodbye Mama
A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in...
release : 1991.04.20popularis : 1.314
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
release : 1969.03.01popularis : 2.996
The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...
release : 2004.10.30popularis : 4.252
Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective...
release : 2003.06.25popularis : 1.557
The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
release : 1980.06.28popularis : 1.503
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...
release : 1984.04.28popularis : 2.391
Ana
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup...
release : 1984.03.13popularis : 1.149
Succession
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
release : 1992.08.29popularis : 3.166
Granny Gabai
Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts...
release : 2006.06.02popularis : 1.007
The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once...
release : 2003.09.03popularis : 3.079
The Central Quicksand
A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on...
release : 1998.08.04popularis : 1.204