Denden

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.

Known For

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Seven Detectives

Yasuragi no Toki: Michi

Amachan

Galileo

BG: Personal Bodyguard

The Honest Realtor

Unsung Cinderella, Midori, the Hospital Pharmacist

All Movies (124)

• Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final2025
• A Moon in the Ordinary2025
• Spirit World2025 · as Koji
• Living in Two Worlds2024 · as Yasuo Suzuki
• The Parades2024 · as Keisuke
• Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie2023
• Mountain Woman2023
• Insomniacs After School2023 · as Director of a Historical Archive
• Rental Family2023 · as Koji Asada
• A Man2022 · as Kosuge
• A Turtle's Shell is a Human's Ribs2022 · as Usazō Usagibayashi (voice)
• I Am Makimoto2022 · as Undertaker Shimobayashi
• Mugonkan2022 · as Shiino Chikara
• The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood2021
• Not Quite Dead Yet2020 · as Ramen Shop Owner
• Stardust over the Town2020 · as Nishi Kazuo
• It Stopped Raining2020 · as Professor
• Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc2019 · as Soga Mitsui
• Life: Untitled2019 · as Shitara
• Black School Rules2019 · as Shio Norizuki
• The Forest of Love2019 · as Shigeru Ozawa
• Blue Hour2019 · as Sunada's Father
• Love Revolution2018
• Yuukai Houtei: Seven Days2018
• The Bastard and the Beautiful World2018 · as (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
• Last Winter, We Parted2018
• Fumiko's Feet2018 · as Tsukagoshi
• The Other House2018
• The Last Reunion2017
• Wilderness: Part 22017 · as Baba
• Wilderness: Part 12017 · as Baba
• Love and Other Cults2017 · as Hisaya Kida
• Mumon: The Land of Stealth2017 · as Kai Shimoyama
• Tatara Samurai2017 · as Genzo
• Black Rose2017 · as Tsunekichi Yasumoto
• Sound of Waves2017
• Shippu Rondo2016 · as Yamano
• Sniper2016 · as Yoshihiko Shirota
• Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan2016
• Destruction Babies2016
• Lowlife Love2016 · as Kida
• To Eat To Live2016
• Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie2016
• Something Like, Something Like It2016 · as Shinsui Defunetei
• Kazoku gokko2015
• The Daimon2015
• Making of Tokyo Tribe2015 · as Self
• Yakuza Apocalypse2015 · as Old Yakuza
• Meikyu Sousa2015 · as Isao Kakizaki
• Maestro!2015
• Pro Bono2014 · as Lawyer Sasaki
• Tokyo Tribe2014 · as High Priest
• Killers2014 · as Oyaji / Father at Jukai
• Judge!2014 · as President of Chikuwadou
• Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy2014
• The Kiyosu Conference2013 · as Geni Maeda
• Why Don't You Play in Hell?2013 · as Ramen Shop Owner
• A Boy Called H2013
• The Daimon 22013
• The Daimon2013
• Princess Sakura2013 · as Kiyoharu
• The Serialist2013
• The Incredible Truth2013 · as Hirai Tadao
• 7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies2013 · as Yasuoka
• Memory Sculptor2013 · as Jin
• Suzuki Sensei2013 · as Teacher Tatsuo Kawano
• The Samurai That Night2012 · as Susumu Sato
• The Land of Hope2012 · as Ken Suzuki
• Like Someone in Love2012 · as Hiroshi
• Making of Himizu2012 · as Self
• SPEC: Heaven2012 · as Kenzo Ichiyanagi
• Himizu2012 · as Kaneko
• Cut2011 · as Takagaki
• Early Autumn2011
• Someday2011
• Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog2011
• A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip2011 · as Akaihito
• 誰よりも君を愛す！2011
• Denden Interview2011
• Journey of a Dying Wife2011
• Cold Fish2011 · as Yukio Murata
• A Lone Scalpel2010 · as Shinji Okawa
• 月と嘘と殺人2010
• Boys on the Run2010 · as Tanaka
• Golden Slumber2010 · as Kojima Yasuo
• Yellow Kid2010
• Kanikôsen2009 · as Monk
• Be Sure to Share2009 · as Tanaka
• Tokyo Sonata2008 · as Janitor
• Gu Gu, the Cat2008 · as Kajiwara
• Tokyo!2008 · as Car Pound Attendant (segment "Interior Design")
• Climber's High2008 · as Masao Kamejima
• Double Trouble2008
• Kabei: Our Mother2008 · as Fukuda
• Dororo2007 · as Praying Father
• 弁護士 灰島秀樹2006
• Yaneura no Sanposha2006
• Love Tomato2006
• What the Snow Brings2005 · as Tamotsu Fujimaki
• DV: Domestic Violence2005
• Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire2004 · as Showman
• Onna no naka no futatsu no kao2004
• Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy2004
• Shooting Stars in the Twilight2002
• Red Shadow2001 · as Bonnobei
• Drowning Fish2001
• Eureka2001 · as Yoshida
• Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai2000
• Ju-on: The Curse 22000 · as Yoshikawa
• Uzumaki2000 · as Officer Futada
• Ju-on: The Curse2000 · as Yoshikawa
• Kunoichi Financial Road1999
• Amateur Singing Contest1999
• Unlucky Monkey1998
• Cure1997 · as OIda
• Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case1995
• MARKS1995 · as Medical examiner
• Gotoshi Co. Ltd. III1994
• Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II1994
• Dark Society in the East1993
• The Games Teachers Play1992 · as Unnamed Teacher
• Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni1991
• The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses1991
• Something Like It1981 · as Shinsui

All TV Shows (52)

• ドラフトキング －BORDER LINE－2026
• Ten Strokes to You2026 · as Susumu Kazami
• Unsung Heroes2025 · as Yozo Ohara
• Someone in this town2024 · as Kondo Toshio
• Light of My Lion2024 · as Yoshimi Torakichi
• I Hear the Sunspot2024 · as Sagawa Genji
• THE DAYS2023
• Lawyer Sodom2023 · as Makoto Shinozaki
• Draft King2023 · as Rikuo Shimobe
• Atom's Last Shot2022 · as Kengo Yaegashi
• ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me?2022
• GAME OF SPY2022 · as Shigenobu Kugayama
• The Honest Realtor2022 · as Kagekatsu Todo
• Unsung Cinderella, Midori, the Hospital Pharmacist2020 · as Kanji Aragami
• The Forest of Love: Deep Cut2020 · as Shigeru Ozawa
• Death Office2019 · as Ishima
• Yasuragi no Toki: Michi2019
• Detective Akechi Kogoro2019 · as Tarao
• Ten：The Nice Guy on the Path of Tenho2018 · as Mitsui Soga（僧我 三威）
• BG: Personal Bodyguard2018 · as Yuji Sato
• Muyoan Retirement Training2017
• MPD: Animal Unit2017 · as Shokichi Nidegawa
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord2017 · as 奥山朝利
• Natsuko Kira2016
• Seven Detectives2015 · as Yoshio Kojima
• Dokonjō Gaeru2015 · as Machida
• Toward the Wilderness2015 · as Tomita
• Nobunaga Concerto2014 · as Takugen
• Truth of Zero2014 · as Hiroshi Hosaka
• The Long Goodbye2014 · as Shady doctor
• Emergency Interrogation Room2014 · as Susumu Hishimoto
• Take Five: Should we Steal for Love?2013 · as Masuda Kozo
• Amachan2013 · as 长内六郎
• Beautiful Rain2012 · as Muneta Kiyoshi
• Man of Destiny2012 · as Shiro Ebisu
• QP2011 · as Leader of Kiowa Team
• Suzuki Sensei2011
• Winter Sakura2011 · as Inaba Tetsuya
• 犬飼さんちの犬2011 · as 鳥飼正
• Love Strikes!2010
• Yukemuri Sniper2009
• Dots and Lines2007
• Galileo2007
• Tanaka Express 32007
• Be with You2005 · as Ogasawara Tomoya
• AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo2002
• Handoku!!!2001
• Hanamura Daisuke2000
• Keizoku: Unsolved Cases1999 · as Yuichi Mizutani
• Sa-shi-su-se-so!?1997
• Gosei Sentai Dairanger1993 · as Bird Cage Vagrant
• Taiheiki1991 · as Masafusa Jingûji