Graduated from the Faculty of Law at . He studied under the screenwriter & author and mainly wrote many action films. Ogawa was one of the people who supported the Golden Age of Nikkatsu action movies during the 1960s. From around 1970, he shifted his main activity to TV dramas, and in "!", he was involved from the beginning to the end of the program, and mainly played the role of supervising and revising the scenario. In parallel with this, Ogawa has written numerous drama scripts in a wide range of genres such as action, suspense, and . At the end of the 1960s, he joined the video production group Jack Production (ジャック・プロダクション, "Jakku purodakushon") with Takashi Tsuboshima, Yasuo Tanami, Katsuki Iwauchi and others.