Denden
Acting
Biography
Denden (でんでん Denden, born Yoshihiro Ogata (緒方 義博); 23 January 1950) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1981.
Born: January 23, 1950
Place of Birth: Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan
Known For
Something Like, Something Like It
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Love Tomato
Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
I Hear the Sunspot
Kohei, a deaf university student, meets Taichi, an optimistic classmate who volunteers to take notes for Kohei's lectures in exchange for food. As they grow closer, their friendship blossoms into love.
Amachan
Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
A Moon in the Ordinary
Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in 35 years. On the second floor window sill of a small apartment. Yoko was leaning against the window and looking up at the moon in the night sky, then Kensho was watching her from outside. Kensho “What were you thinking back then?” Yoko “...Something like a dream. Just about something like a dream.” The two of them are naturally attracted to each other for the first time at the age of 50. They eventually start talking about the future...
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
Naotora Ii is a woman given a male name, who succeeded as the head of the Ii family during the Warring States period when her father passed away. With her wisdom, courage and affection for loved ones, Naotora lived through turbulent times and paved the way for the future of her clan.
Dokonjō Gaeru
Hiroshi is now 30-years-old and lethargic, but Pyonkichi, the frog imprinted on his shirt, is always energetic. Sometimes Hiroshi does not wear t-shirts with Pyonkichi, but Pyonkichi always encourages Hiroshi.
Keizoku: Unsolved Cases
Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama. The television series was broadcast in eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.
Filmography
as Yozo Ohara
as Koji
as Kondo Toshio
as Yoshimi Torakichi
as Yasuo Suzuki
as Sagawa Genji
as Keisuke
as Director of a Historical Archive
as Koji Asada
as Makoto Shinozaki
as Rikuo Shimobe
as Kosuge
as Usazō Usagibayashi (voice)
as Kengo Yaegashi
as Undertaker Shimobayashi
as Shiino Chikara
as Shigenobu Kugayama
as Kagekatsu Todo
as Kanji Aragami
as Shigeru Ozawa
as Ramen Shop Owner
as Nishi Kazuo
as Professor
as Soga Mitsui
as Shitara
as Shio Norizuki
as Ishima
as Shigeru Ozawa
as Tarao
as Sunada's Father
as Mitsui Soga（僧我 三威）
as (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
as Tsukagoshi
as Yuji Sato
as Baba
as Baba
as Hisaya Kida
as Shokichi Nidegawa
as Kai Shimoyama
as Genzo
as Tsunekichi Yasumoto
as 奥山朝利
as Yamano
as Yoshihiko Shirota
as Kida
as Shinsui Defunetei
as Yoshio Kojima
as Machida
as Self
as Old Yakuza
as Isao Kakizaki
as Tomita
as Lawyer Sasaki
as Takugen
as High Priest
as Hiroshi Hosaka
as Shady doctor
as Oyaji / Father at Jukai
as President of Chikuwadou
as Susumu Hishimoto
as Geni Maeda
as Ramen Shop Owner
as Kiyoharu
as Hirai Tadao
as Masuda Kozo
as 长内六郎
as Yasuoka
as Jin
as Teacher Tatsuo Kawano
as Susumu Sato
as Ken Suzuki
as Hiroshi
as Muneta Kiyoshi
as Kenzo Ichiyanagi
as Shiro Ebisu
as Takagaki
as Leader of Kiowa Team
as Kaneko
as Yukio Murata
as Inaba Tetsuya
as 鳥飼正
as Shinji Okawa
as Kojima Yasuo
as Tanaka
as Monk
as Tanaka
as Janitor
as Kajiwara
as Car Pound Attendant (segment "Interior Design")
as Masao Kamejima
as Fukuda
as Praying Father
as Tamotsu Fujimaki
as Ogasawara Tomoya
as Showman
as Bonnobei
as Yoshida
as Yoshikawa
as Yoshikawa
as Officer Futada
as Yuichi Mizutani
as OIda
as Medical examiner
as Bird Cage Vagrant
as Unnamed Teacher
as Masafusa Jingûji
as Shinsui