Person

Kunimatsu Ogawa

Acting · Born 1908-07-01 · Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo, Japan

Kunimatsu Ogawa was a Japanese child actor from the silent era. Born in Tokyo, his father ran a silk shop. Among other roles, he appeared in Sword of Penitence (1927), the debut film of Yasujiro Ozu. He also co-starred in Kinuyo Tanaka's debut film, A Woman from the Genroku Era. Asked about it years later, he described her as his first crush. Few records of his life exist after the 1920s, although he returned to movies in the cast of Heinosuke Gosho's Twice on a Certain Night (1956). On a special segment of a New Year's Eve variety show, 1966, Ogawa and Tanaka were reunited for the first time in almost forty years.

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  Sword of Penitence

  Ishimatsu

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  Twice on a Certain Night

  1956

• Her

  1926

• The Oath of a Thousand Kills

  Yoshiryū

• The Little Traveling Entertainer

  Koichi

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  Village Pasture

  Senta, the boy

• A Woman from the Genroku Era

  1924

• 1956Twice on a Certain Night
• 1927Sword of PenitenceIshimatsu
• 1927The Oath of a Thousand KillsYoshiryū
• 1926Her
• 1925The Little Traveling EntertainerKoichi
• 1924Village PastureSenta, the boy
• 1924A Woman from the Genroku Era