Daisuke Katō

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Known For

Acting

Born

1911-02-18

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Katō

Biography

Daisuke Katō (加東大介 Katō Daisuke, February 18, 1911 – July 31, 1975) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 films, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the loyal comrade Shichiroji), Rashomon, Yojimbo (as the "wild pig" Inokichi), Ikiru, and Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy and Chushingura.

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Known For

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

Yojimbo

Yojimbo

Ikiru

Ikiru

Rashomon

Rashomon

The Life of Oharu

The Life of Oharu

Japan's Longest Day

Japan's Longest Day

Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Acting History

Tokyo do mannaka as Zenzo

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday as Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President as Kintaro Igari

Morning for Two

Five Gents and a Kuniang as Ishibashi Tetsukichi

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Tetsukichi Ishibashi

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)

Admiral Yamamoto as Chief of Press Section

Rose Buds in the Rainbow as Gôzô Maeda

Gamblers: The Raid as Kichigorō

The Night before Pearl Harbor as Kusanagi

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Tsutomu Ariga

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)

Ryoma ga Yuku as Katsu Kaishu

Two in the Shadow as Hayashida

The Greatest Challenge of All

Japan's Longest Day as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Secret Assignment as Kusanagi

Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

The Bogus Policeman

Tabiji as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎

Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Kusanagi

Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

Once a Rainy Day

Assignment Cloud as Kusanagi

The School of Spies as Lieutenant Kusanagi

Moment of Terror as Kawashima

Five Gents on the Spot as Kanju Goto

Rise Against the Sword as Budeuemon Hattori

A Company President's Life Story as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)

Stairs of Evil as Konishi

We Will Remember

Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)

The Radish and the Carrot

Five Gents' Trick Book

Superexpress as Yukichi Nakae

Nippon Paradise

The Naked Executive as Tadokori - Executive

I'm a Bodyguard

3 Gents in the Snow Country

Mr. Giant's Victory Flag

How to Make Money

Hail the 3 Gents as Tomioka (Sales Manager)

We Are Salarymen as Executive Motohashi

Miren as Master at 'Sekine'

Company President Travels Abroad Part II as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)

Company President Travels Abroad as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)

Crazy Operation: First Move

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)

Devices Stronger Than Women as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)

Travel Stories of a Company President

An Autumn Afternoon as Yoshitaro Sakamoto

Chûshingura as Kichiemon Terasaka

A Wanderer's Notebook as Nobuo Sadaoka

Shin kitsune to tanuki

Star of Hong Kong as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law

Ottamage ningyo monogatari

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

The Wiser Age as Ryokichi

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

Shimizu Port Salaryman

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

The End of Summer as Kitagawa Yanosuke

Awamori-kun kanpai!

Snow in the South Seas

A Night in Hong Kong as Kenkichi Matsuyama

Playboy President: Part II as Zensuke Kuramochi

Yojimbo as Inokichi

Playboy President as Kuramochi Zensuke

The Masterless 47 – Part II

The Preacher of Love

The Masterless 47 as Jyusaburo Onodera

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

The Approach of Autumn as Tomioka

This Greedy Old Skin

Jiyūgaoka fujin

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Kumakichi Onizuka

Singing in the Sun as Kyosuke Tsumura

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Okubo Hikosaburō

Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Shusuke Tetsumoto

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Uchuu Takeda

The Gambling Samurai as Enzo Niko

Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Ōkubo Hikosaburō

Hito mo arukeba as Namitaro Namiki

Beyond the Hills as Yakichi Wada

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Matsukichi Sekine

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)

The Terrible Game as Uncle Zenkichi

Young Lovers as Renzō Dōjima

Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers

New Third-Class Executive as Kumahira Onizuka

The College Ruggers as Jirō Shimizu

Fox and Raccoon as Kyota Aoshima

I Want to Be a Shellfish as Takeuchi

Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

The Naked General

Bright Young Maidens as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hajime Sawada

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kikuzō (head clerk)

Oban kanketsu hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane

Little Peach as Suga

Yaji and Kita on the Road as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya

Holiday in Tokyo

The Third President

A Bridge for Two Alone

Assistant President

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Sōda Hajime

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Ushinosuke Akaba

Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Sōda Hajime

Untamed Woman as Onoda, the second husband

Snow Country as Inn proprietor

Ôban as Ushinosuke Akaba

Itohan Monogatari as Matsukichi

Flowing as Yoneko's Ex

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Street of Shame as Mr. Nomura

Swordsman of the Two Sword Style as Kamo Jinnai

Dadakko Shachou

Early Spring as Sakamoto

Samurai of the Great Earth

Sudden Rain as Kawakami

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Toji Gion

Mune yori mune ni as Hazama

Ejima and Ikushima as 井口

The Romance of Yushima

The Lone Journey

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Toji Gion

Seven Masks of Revenge

五十円横町

Twilight Saloon as Kibe

No Time for Tears

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji as Genta

Here Is a Spring

A Woman's Life as police officer

Floating Clouds as Seikichi Mukai

Foul Play as Goro Seo

The Surf as Chiyoko's Father

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Toji

Mother's First Love

爆笑天国　とんち教室

Late Chrysanthemums as Itaya

Mako Osorubeshi

All of Myself as Oda Jukichi

Seven Samurai as Shichiroji

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho's Home-Coming

The Blue Revolution

Yasugorō shusse

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

An Edoite Judge as Tasuke Uoya

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

恐妻時代 as Nakahata

Ikiru as Yakuza

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

Shanghai Rose as Liu, Ding's men

Forty-Eight Man

Mother as Sokichi Kimura

The Life of Oharu as Tasaburo Hishiya

三万両五十三次

Vendetta of a Samurai

The Bitch as Gorō Matoba

The Tale of Genji

The Killing of Otsuya as Mita

A Spectacular Murder

The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Tajimi

A Man from Akagi

Rashomon as Policeman

The Motherland Far Far Away as Tommy Shôkyokusai

Ore wa yōjimbō

G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Shinkichi

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Shinkichi

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood as Yasu

The Man Who Laughs Last

The 47 Ronin as Fuwa Kazuemon

Humanity and Paper Balloons as Isuke

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

Priest of Darkness as Kenta