Ken Ogata — Actor (37)
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My Soul Is Slashed (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB
咬みつきたい
director: Shusuke Kaneko actor: Ken Ogata / Narumi Yasuda …
other title: 咬みつきたい
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 wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.
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Goodbye Mama (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB
グッバイ・ママ
director: Yasushi Akimoto actor: Keiko Matsuzaka / Yuta Yamazaki …
other title: グッバイ・ママ
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 her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident.
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Goodbye Japan (1995) IMDb TMDB
さよならニッポン！
director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi actor: Mariko Fuji / Tonpei Hidari …
other title: さよならニッポン！
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese government's response, declare independence.
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Oar (1985) IMDb TMDB
櫂
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Ken Ogata / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: La Proie de l'Homme / 櫂
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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The Sex Check (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
セックス・チェック　第二の性
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Ken Ogata …
other title: セックス・チェック　第二の性 / 性别检查：第二性 …
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 gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.
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The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge (1981) TMDB
怪盗鼠小僧といれずみ判官
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Ken Ogata / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 怪盗鼠小僧といれずみ判官
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 Nezumi Kozo, there is a small wholesaler Jiro. And once Toyama and Jiro, when they were young, were comrades who spent all their time gambling and having fun with women in the Yushima Tenjin area...
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Eijanaika (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
ええじゃないか
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Shigeru Izumiya / Kaori Momoi …
other title: Pourquoi pas ? / Eijanaika (Qué más da) …
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 Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
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Tracked (1985) IMDb TMDB
薄化粧
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Ken Ogata / Atsuko Asano …
other title: Portrait d'un criminel / 薄化粧
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 crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
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The Dropout (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
野獣刑事
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Ken Ogata / Ayumi Ishida …
other title: 野獣刑事 / Yaju-deka …
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 prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
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Virus (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
復活の日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Glenn Ford / Robert Vaughn …
other title: Ultimo rifugio: Antartide / Overkill - Durch die Hölle zur Ewigkeit …
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 world.
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Samurai Reincarnation (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
魔界転生
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Kenji Sawada …
other title: 魔界転生 / Makai tenshô: 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 Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
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The Pillow Book (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Pillow Book
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Vivian Wu / Yoshi Oida …
other title: I racconti del cuscino / O Livro de Cabeceira …
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
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The Geisha (1983)
陽暉楼
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Ken Ogata / Kimiko Ikegami …
other title: Yohkiro, le royaume des geishas / 陽暉楼 …
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 was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.