Kunimatsu Ogawa

Birthday: 1908-07-01
Birthplace: Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
1956-06-08 Twice on a Certain Night
1927-10-14 Sword of Penitence Ishimatsu
1927-07-08 The Oath of a Thousand Kills Yoshiryū
1926-12-31 Her
1925-03-11 The Little Traveling Entertainer Koichi
1924-12-31 Village Pasture Senta, the boy
1924-10-01 A Woman from the Genroku Era