Denden

Known for: Acting
Born: January 23, 1950, Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan
Movies: 127

Denden (でんでん Denden, born Yoshihiro Ogata (緒方義博); 23 January 1950) is a Japanese actor and former comedian. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1981.

Best-Known Movies

7.6

Cure

1997

6.9

Cold Fish

2011

7.3

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

2013

6.8

Ju-on: The Curse

2000

7.4

Tokyo Sonata

2008

6.9

Like Someone in Love

2012

5.9

Uzumaki

2000

6.9

Tokyo!

2008

6.2

Ju-on: The Curse 2

2000

7.0

Himizu

2012

Filmography

2025	Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final
2025	A Moon in the Ordinary
2025	Spirit World	Koji
2024	Living in Two Worlds	Yasuo Suzuki
2024	The Parades	Keisuke
2023	We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie	Nogami
2023	Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie
2023	Mountain Woman
2023	Insomniacs After School	Director of a Historical Archive
2023	Rental Family	Koji Asada
2022	A Man	Kosuge
2022	A Turtle's Shell is a Human's Ribs	Usazō Usagibayashi (voice)
2022	I Am Makimoto	Undertaker Shimobayashi
2022	Mugonkan	Shiino Chikara
2021	The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2020	Not Quite Dead Yet	Ramen Shop Owner
2020	Stardust over the Town	Nishi Kazuo
2020	It Stopped Raining	Professor
2019	Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc	Soga Mitsui
2019	Life: Untitled	Shitara
2019	Black School Rules	Shio Norizuki
2019	The Forest of Love	Shigeru Ozawa
2019	Blue Hour	Sunada's Father
2019	Mentai Piriri	Maruo
2018	Love Revolution
2018	Yuukai Houtei: Seven Days
2018	The Bastard and the Beautiful World	(segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
2018	Last Winter, We Parted
2018	Fumiko's Feet	Tsukagoshi
2018	The Other House
2017	The Last Reunion
2017	Wilderness: Part 2	Baba
2017	Wilderness: Part 1	Baba
2017	Love and Other Cults	Hisaya Kida
2017	Mumon: The Land of Stealth	Kai Shimoyama
2017	Tatara Samurai	Genzo
2017	Black Rose	Tsunekichi Yasumoto
2017	Sound of Waves
2016	Shippu Rondo	Yamano
2016	Sniper	Yoshihiko Shirota
2016	Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016	Destruction Babies
2016	Lowlife Love	Kida
2016	To Eat To Live
2016	Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie
2016	Something Like, Something Like It	Shinsui Defunetei
2015	Kazoku gokko
2015	The Daimon
2015	Making of Tokyo Tribe	Self
2015	Yakuza Apocalypse	Old Yakuza
2015	Meikyu Sousa	Isao Kakizaki
2015	Maestro!
2014	Kiri no Hata	Lawyer Sasaki
2014	Tokyo Tribe	High Priest
2014	Killers	Oyaji / Father at Jukai
2014	Judge!	President of Chikuwadou
2014	Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy
2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Geni Maeda
2013	Why Don't You Play in Hell?	Ramen Shop Owner
2013	A Boy Called H
2013	The Daimon 2
2013	The Daimon
2013	Princess Sakura	Kiyoharu
2013	The Serialist
2013	The Incredible Truth	Hirai Tadao
2013	7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies	Yasuoka
2013	Memory Sculptor	Jin
2013	Suzuki Sensei	Teacher Tatsuo Kawano
2012	The Samurai That Night	Susumu Sato
2012	The Land of Hope	Ken Suzuki
2012	Like Someone in Love	Hiroshi
2012	Making of Himizu	Self
2012	SPEC: Heaven	Kenzo Ichiyanagi
2012	SPEC: Life	Kenzo Ichiyanagi
2012	Himizu	Kaneko
2011	Cut	Takagaki
2011	Early Autumn
2011	Someday
2011	Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog
2011	A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip	Akaihito
2011	誰よりも君を愛す！
2011	Denden Interview
2011	Journey of a Dying Wife
2011	Cold Fish	Yukio Murata
2010	A Lone Scalpel	Shinji Okawa
2010	月と嘘と殺人
2010	Boys on the Run	Tanaka
2010	Golden Slumber	Kojima Yasuo
2010	Yellow Kid
2009	Kanikôsen	Monk
2009	Be Sure to Share	Tanaka
2008	Tokyo Sonata	Janitor
2008	Gu Gu, the Cat	Kajiwara
2008	Tokyo!	Car Pound Attendant (segment "Interior Design")
2008	Climber's High	Masao Kamejima
2008	Double Trouble
2008	Kabei: Our Mother	Fukuda
2007	Dororo	Praying Father
2006	The Lawyer: Haijima Hideki
2006	Yaneura no Sanposha
2006	Love Tomato
2005	What the Snow Brings	Tamotsu Fujimaki
2005	DV: Domestic Violence
2004	Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire	Showman
2004	Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004	Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
2002	Shooting Stars in the Twilight
2001	Red Shadow	Bonnobei
2001	Drowning Fish
2001	Eureka	Yoshida
2000	Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai
2000	Ju-on: The Curse 2	Yoshikawa
2000	Uzumaki	Officer Futada
2000	Ju-on: The Curse	Yoshikawa
1999	Kunoichi Financial Road
1999	Amateur Singing Contest
1998	Unlucky Monkey
1997	Cure	OIda
1995	Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
1995	MARKS	Medical examiner
1994	Gotoshi Co. Ltd. III
1994	Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
1993	Dark Society in the East
1992	The Games Teachers Play	Unnamed Teacher
1991	Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni
1991	The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1981	Something Like It	Shinsui

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