---
name: "Ken Ochiai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ken-ochiai"
fi1m_id: "ken-ochiai"
imdb_id: "nm2367198"
tmdb_id: 1181046
wikidata_id: "Q11620625"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 May 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:33:17.409083+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ken Ochiai

## Identity

Ken Ochiai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ken-ochiai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ken-ochiai
- **IMDb ID:** nm2367198
- **TMDB ID:** 1181046
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11620625
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11620625, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367198/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181046

Actor. Born 31 May 1983 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 May 1983, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** 落合 賢
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11620625, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367198/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181046

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Kensuke's Kingdom*](https://film.one/film/kensukes-kingdom.md) (76)

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## Biography

Ken Ochiai (落合 賢) is a Japanese film director. Born on 31 May 1983 in Tokyo, he moved to the United States after high school to study film. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2006 with a BA in production and received an MFA in directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2008.

Ochiai has directed feature films including *Tiger Mask* (2013), *Uzumasa Limelight* (2014), *Ninja the Monster* (2015) and *Angel Sign* (2019), as well as episodes of the television series *Golden Kamuy* (2024). He has also worked as a producer and actor, with voice and on-screen roles in films such as *Kensuke's Kingdom* (2024), where he voiced the Nagasaki Announcer, and *Like Father, Like Son* (2013). His short films have received awards including a Directors Guild of America Jury Prize.

*Sources: imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org, kenochiai.com, facebook.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kensuke's Kingdom* (2024), Fi1m 76, as Nagasaki Announcer (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/kensukes-kingdom.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?* (2026), Producer
- *Blood Moon Rite 8* (2026), Producer
- *My Fireworks* (2025), Producer
- *Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-* (2024), series, Director
- *Kensuke's Kingdom* (2024), as Nagasaki Announcer (voice) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/kensukes-kingdom.md)
- *Strange* (2023), Producer, Screenplay, Director
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, as Mr. Maeda
- *Bite Size Halloween* (2020), series, Director
- *Angel Sign* (2019), Director
- *Daddy Issues* (2018), Director
- *SWAN SONG* (2018), Director
- *Cinema Fighters* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Saigon Bodyguards* (2016), Story, Director
- *Sumo Road - The Musical* (2015), Director, Writer
- *NINJA THE MONSTER* (2015), Director
- *Juliet Juliet - The Sound of Love Musical* (2015), Director
- *Uzumasa Limelight* (2014), Director
- *Dance! Dance! Dance!* (2014), Director
- *Tiger Mask* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), Actor
- *Memory Sculptor* (2013), Writer, Director
- *A Moment of Youth* (2011), Director
- *Frog in the Well* (2010), as Narrator (voice) · Director, Writer
- *Half Kenneth* (2009), Screenplay, Director, Story

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