Ken Ogata — Actor (23)
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Eijanaika (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
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.
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11’09”01—September 11 (2002) [Movie] TMDB
11’09”01—September 11
director: Samira Makhmalbaf / Amos Gitai … actor: Ernest Borgnine / Maryam Karimi …
other title: 11 settembre 2001 / 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 – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Castle of Sand (1974) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
砂の器
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Gō Katō …
other title: Le Vase de sable / El castillo de arena …
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
影の軍団 服部半蔵
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Teruhiko Saigō / Mikio Narita …
other title: 影の軍団 服部半蔵
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 political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.
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The Last Samurai (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
狼よ落日を斬れ
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Hideki Takahashi / Ken Ogata …
other title: Les derniers samouraïs / 狼よ落日を斬れ
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. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
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Izo (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge IMDb
IZO
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuya Nakayama / Kaori Momoi …
other title: IZO / Izo - The world can never be changed …
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. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Shogun's Shadow (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
将軍家光の乱心 激突
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Ken Ogata / Sonny Chiba …
other title: 将軍家光の乱心 激突 / Der Schatten des Shogun …
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 led by a strong leader.
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Samurai Banners (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
風林火山
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yoshiko Sakuma …
other title: 風林火山 / Das Banner des Samurai …
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 convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
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The Hidden Blade (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
隠し剣 鬼の爪
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Takako Matsu …
other title: La Servante et le Samouraï / La espada oculta …
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 new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
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Gonin 2 (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
GONIN2
director: Takashi Ishii actor: Ken Ogata / Shinobu Ôtake …
other title: GONIN2
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and caused the death of his wife. Before long, the yakuza and Toyama arrive at the women's hideout.