Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. Read More »
Tag Archives: Ken Ogata
My Soul Is Slashed (1991) Shûsuke Kaneko, Ken Ogata, Hideyo Amamoto, Nina Blake
Ken Ogata, a company man, is killed. Accidentally, he is transfused with the blood of Dracula and returned to life. Read More »
Five Women / Gonin 2 (1996) Takashi Ishii, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ôtake, Kimiko Yo
Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang Read More »
Man Walking on Snow (2001) Masahiro Kobayashi
Scene: Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Read More »
The Geisha AKA Yôkirô (1983) Hideo Gosha, Ken Ogata, Kimiko Ikegami, Atsuko Asano
1933. 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter. Read More »
The Ballad of Narayama AKA Narayama bushikô (1983) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. Read More »
The Demon AKA Kichiku (1978) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Hiroki Iwase
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children Read More »
Zegen (1987) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun-Hsiung Ko
The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale of Iheiji Muraoka Read More »
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan / The Dream of Russia (1992) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Ogata, Oleg Yankovskiy, Takuzô Kawatani
1782. A Japanese ship named Shinsho-maru is blown off course and severely battered during a wild storm Read More »
A Chaos of Flowers (1988) Kinji Fukasaku, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ken Ogata
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »