Cast: Ken Ogata

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Sumiko Sakamoto · Tonpei Hidari · Aki Takejô

Synopsis A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional journey from her poor village to the summit of Mount Narayama to die. 1983's THE...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Rei Dan · Takashi Sasano · Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Synopsis Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowly...

Direction Shintarô Katsu

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kanako Higuchi · Takanori Jinnai · Ryuutarô Gan

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Ken Ogata · Shima Iwashita · Mayumi Ogawa · Hiroki Iwase

Synopsis 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 with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ken Ogata · Kenji Sawada · Yasosuke Bando · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous death, but also on his work. Schrader uses three...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Vivian Wu · Ken Ogata · Ewan McGregor · Yoshi Oida

Synopsis As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies,...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Synopsis Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Go Kato · Kensaku Morita · Yôko Shimada

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara

Synopsis Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. 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...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated,... A reaction piece...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Ken Ogata · Toshiyuki Nishida · Yûko Tanaka · Kanako Higuchi

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shigeru Izumiya · Kaori Momoi · Ken Ogata · Masao Kusakari

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Ken Ogata · Shinobu Otake · Kimiko Yo · Mai Kitajima

Direction Haruo Ichikura

Cast Yoshida Eisaku · Ken Ogata · Masumi Miyazaki · Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Ken Ogata · Yukiyo Toake · Mariko Ishihara · Yûko Natori

Synopsis Iwago, a former wrestling champion, gets prosper from a somewhat shady business. Iwago's wife Kiwa, while dealing with this situation, should raise Kiku, a girl he bought at the port of Kobe to release her from a violent father, along...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Takao Kataoka · Keiko Matsuzaka · Junko Miyashita · Mariko Fuji

Synopsis 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.

Direction Mitsuo Kurotsuchi

Cast Somegoro Ichikawa · Yoshino Kimura · Kôji Imada · Ryô Fukawa

Synopsis A young swordsman is forced into a tough situation. He must resolve a potential power struggle that involves his adolescent crush Fuku.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Kenji Sawada · Akiko Kana · Ken Ogata

Synopsis The villain is called Amakusa SHIRO Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown'