Rinsaku Ogata
Birthday: 1925-01-06
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Frequent supporting player in Toho films beginning in the 50s. Ogata’s stern features lent him to background roles as military officers and personnel in several of Toho’s sci-fi films. One of his more prominent roles (i.e., it had dialogue) are as a policeman in the opening scene of The Human Vapor (1960). He also played Goro, one of the first victims in Rodan (1956).
Movies
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Space Amoeba
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to t...
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Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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Rodan
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehis...
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Destroy All Monsters
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...
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The H-Man
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police que...
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Battle in Outer Space
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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The Man from Planet Alpha
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Cr...
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Varan
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists g...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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The Human Vapor
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes ...
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....
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Jirocho, the Hunted
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the r...
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Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep
A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small to...
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Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa Series: Thank You, Sandogasa
When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
After a highway accident forces a motel stay, a company president devises a plan to create spring-ba...
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