Takeshi Katō

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Known For

Acting

Born

1929-05-24

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan
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Takeshi Katō

Biography

Takeshi Katō (加藤 武 Katō Takeshi, 24 May 1929 – 31 July 2015) was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

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Acting History

2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
2009
Free and Easy 20: Final
2008
You'll Die Six Hours Later
2007
Free and Easy 18
2006
Murder of the Inugami Clan as Todoroki Shochô
2006
Free and Easy 17
2006
Japan Sinks as Professor Yamashiro
2006
Aogeba Tôtoshi as Koichi's father
2005
Free and Easy 16 as Akiyama
2004
Free and Easy 15
2004
Tracing Jake
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
2002
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space as Zombie Cat (Voice)
2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Managing Director Akiyama
2001
Run Ichiro Run
2000
Dora-heita as Toneri Uchijima
1999
Across a Gold Prairie as Takashi Kanzaki
1999
The Geisha House as Kitayama
1998
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1998
Free and Easy 10
1996
The 8-Tomb Village
1996
Free and Easy 8
1994
Free and Easy 7
1994
Free and Easy Special
1993
Free and Easy 6
1993
XX: Beautiful Weapon as Yasuhiro Kokubu
1993
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
1993
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
1992
Free and Easy 5
1991
The Tale of Genji
1991
Free and Easy 4 as Akiyama
1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
Kimi no na wa as 永橋
1991
Noh Mask Murders as Assistant Inspector Senba
1989
Virgin Road
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood as Kohei Kashi
1989
Company Executives
1988
Hana no Asuka-gumi! as Shinomiya
1987
Crybaby Chacha
1987
Iki no Iiyatsu
1985
Godzilla 1985 as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
1985
Odin: Starlight Mutiny as Takeshi Suzuka
1985
Yume-Chiyo
1985
Ran as Koyota Hatakeyama
1984
For Kayako as Kyusu Im
1984
Watashi no naka no shōfu as Fisherman A
1984
Location as Hara
1984
Zero as Ugaki
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san as Kingo
1984
Choudenshi Bioman as Takashi
1983
Dansen
1983
The Fir Trees Remain
1983
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1983
The Politicians
1983
Children of Nagasaki
1983
Voice from the Dark as Toyokichi Kuze
1983
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series as Kahei Nirei
1982
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp as Grand Wazir (voice)
1981
Hamuretto wa yukue fumei
1981
Flame of Father and Son
1981
Lonely Heart
1980
The First Catch
1980
Koto: The Ancient City
1980
Natchan no shashinkan as 父・西城賢輔
1979
The House of Hanging as Inspector Todoroki
1978
The Phoenix as Kamamushi
1978
Love and Faith
1978
Queen Bee as Detective Todoroki
1977
Island of Hell as Inspector Todoroki
1977
Lullaby to Kill as Inspector Tachibana
1976
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
1976
The Inugami Family as Police Chief Tachibana
1975
The Gate of Youth
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Noburo Uchimoto
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Noboru Uchimoto
1973
Miyamoto Musashi as Iwama Kakubei
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Noburo Uchimoto
1972
The Class of the Sewage Canal
1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
Summer Soldiers as Driver
1972
The Pirates of Buban
1971
Love for Eternity
1971
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1971
300 Million Yen Mission
1970
Zenigeba
1970
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
1969
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1968
Kawachi fūten zoku
1968
Neon taiheiki
1968
The Sands of Kurobe as Kunikida
1967
Japan's Longest Day as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
1967
Scorpion
1966
Fighting Elegy
1966
The Great White Tower
1966
Kill or Be Killed
1966
Moment of Terror
1965
Sword of the Beast as Katori
1965
House of Terrors as Keisuke Munakata
1965
Three Yakuza
1965
The Last Judgment
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars as Public prosecutor Tamura
1965
Zatoichi's Revenge as Koheita Kadokura
1965
None But the Brave as Sgt. Tamura
1965
New Treasure Island as Long John Silver (voice)
1964
The Spying Sorceress
1964
Whirlpool of Flesh as Segawa
1964
Two Lives, Two Yakuza as Makoto Misugi
1964
Night Scandal in Japan
1964
Only on Mondays as Yuka's sugar-daddy
1964
Akō Rōshi as Horibe Yasubee
1964
Monrō no yōna onna
1963
Mother as Toshiro
1963
The Gambling Monk
1963
The Navy
1963
午前零時の出獄
1963
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Life of a Flower as Kaneko Magojiro
1963
High and Low as Detective Nakao
1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook as Uenoyama
1962
Let's Meet in Our Dreams
1962
The Lucky General
1962
Last Round
1962
This Madding Crowd
1962
Foundry Town as Mr. Noda
1962
Kimagure tosei
1962
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1961
Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko
1961
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961
Nosappu no jū
1961
Lost in the Sun
1961
The Crimson Plains as Koike
1961
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Yojimbo as Ronin Kobuhachi
1961
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
1961
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
1961
Pigs and Battleships as Ohachi
1961
Happiness of Us Alone
1960
Volunteering for Villainy as Deka
1960
The Bad Sleep Well as Itakura
1959
Room for Let
1959
High Teen
1958
The Hidden Fortress as Samurai (uncredited)
1958
Endless Desire as Brutal yakuza
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Narrator (uncredited)
1957
Throne of Blood as Guard killed by Washizu
1956
The Thick-Walled Room
1954
How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Ronin on the ship
1954
Seven Samurai as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water