Biography
Denden, born Yoshihiro Ogata on 23 January 1950 in Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese actor and former comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s under the name Kanichi Tadokoro before transitioning to acting.
His film debut came in 1981 with Something Like It. He has appeared in more than one hundred films, including Cure (1997) as Oida, Ju-on: The Curse (2000) as Yoshikawa, Tokyo Sonata (2008) as a janitor, Cold Fish (2010) as Yukio Murata, and Like Someone in Love (2012) as Hiroshi.
