First Encounter - Ken Ogata Poem by john tiong chunghoo

Ken Ogata
his testorone filled voice and energy
bursting at the seams

We first met in Malacca for a brief interview in the mid 80s when he was in the historical city for Imamura Shohei's movie, Zegen. He was a bundle of energy or for this matter, male energy, walking and talking in his full testorone filled voice with no patience of having to repeat his answers. (wikipedia - Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama)