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Takeshi Katō

Actor

Born: May 24, 1929 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: July 31, 2015 (age 86)

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.

Known for

Seven Samurai
April 26, 1954
Ran
June 1, 1985
Yojimbo
April 25, 1961
High and Low
March 1, 1963
Throne of Blood
January 15, 1957
The Hidden Fortress
December 28, 1958
The Return of Godzilla
December 15, 1984
The Bad Sleep Well
September 19, 1960
Godzilla 1985
August 23, 1985
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
January 13, 1973
Sword of the Beast
September 18, 1965
Pigs and Battleships
January 21, 1961

Acting155

2016Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
2009Free and Easy 20: Final
2008You'll Die Six Hours Later
2007Free and Easy 18
2006Murder of the Inugami Clan as Todoroki Shochô
2006Free and Easy 17
2006Japan Sinks as Professor Yamashiro
2006Aogeba Tôtoshi as Koichi's father
2005Free and Easy 16 as Akiyama
2004Free and Easy 15
2004

2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self

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2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
2002Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space as Zombie Cat (Voice)
2001Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
2001Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Managing Director Akiyama
2001Run Ichiro Run
2000Dora-heita as Toneri Uchijima
1999Across a Gold Prairie as Takashi Kanzaki
1999The Geisha House as Kitayama
1998Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1998Free and Easy 10
1996The 8-Tomb Village
1996Free and Easy 8
1994Free and Easy 7
1994Free and Easy Special
1993Free and Easy 6
1993XX: Beautiful Weapon as Yasuhiro Kokubu
1993Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
1993Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
1992Free and Easy 5
1991Free and Easy 4 as Akiyama
1991The Great Shogunate Battle
1991Noh Mask Murders as Assistant Inspector Senba
1990Battleship Yamato as General Koshirō Oikawa
1989Virgin Road
1989Four Days of Snow and Blood as Kohei Kashi
1989Company Executives
1987Crybaby Chacha
1985Godzilla 1985 as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
1985Odin: Starlight Mutiny as Takeshi Suzuka
1985Yume-Chiyo
1985Ran as Koyota Hatakeyama
1984The Return of Godzilla as Trade Minister
1984For Kayako as Kyusu Im
1984Watashi no naka no shōfu as Fisherman A
1984Location as Hara
1984Zero as Ugaki
1984Marriage Counselor Tora-san as 金吾
1983Dansen
1983The Fir Trees Remain
1983The Politicians
1983Children of Nagasaki
1983Voice from the Dark as Toyokichi Kuze
1982Fossilized Wilderness
1982Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp as Grand Wazir (voice)
1981Hamuretto wa yukue fumei
1981Flame of Father and Son
1981Lonely Heart
1980The First Catch
1980Koto: The Ancient City
1979The House of Hanging as Inspector Todoroki
1978The Phoenix as Kamamushi
1978Love and Faith
1978Queen Bee as Detective Todoroki
1977Island of Hell as Inspector Todoroki
1977Lullaby to Kill as Inspector Tachibana
1976The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1976The Inugami Family as Police Chief Tachibana
1975The Gate of Youth
1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Noburo Uchimoto
1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Noboru Uchimoto
1973Miyamoto Musashi as Iwama Kakubei
1973Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro as Kikutarō Yamada
1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Noburo Uchimoto
1972The Class of the Sewage Canal
1972Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972Summer Soldiers as Driver
1972The Pirates of Buban
1971Love for Eternity
1971Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1971300 Million Yen Mission
1970Zenigeba
1970The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1969The Girl I Abandoned
1969Battle of the Japan Sea as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
1969Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1968Trigger-Happy
1968Kawachi's Futen Tribe
1968The Neon Taiheiki
1968The Sands of Kurobe as Kunikida
1967Japan's Longest Day as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
1967Scorpion
1966Fighting Elegy
1966The Great White Tower as Professor Nozaka
1966Kill or Be Killed
1966Moment of Terror
1965Sword of the Beast as Katori
1965House of Terrors as Keisuke Munakata
1965Three Yakuza
1965The Last Judgment
1965Tale of Japanese Burglars as Public prosecutor Tamura
1965Zatoichi's Revenge as Koheita Kadokura
1965None But the Brave as Sgt. Tamura
1965New Treasure Island as Long John Silver (voice)
1964The Spying Sorceress
1964Whirlpool of Flesh as Segawa
1964Two Lives, Two Yakuza as Makoto Misugi
1964Two Bitches
1964Only on Mondays as Yuka's sugar-daddy
1964Monrō no yōna onna
1963Mother as Toshiro
1963The Gambling Monk
1963The Navy
1963午前零時の出獄
1963Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963I Fly for Kicks as Ginzo Iwamoto
1963High and Low as Detective Nakao
1962Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962A Wanderer's Notebook as Uenoyama
1962Let's Meet in Our Dreams
1962The Lucky General
1962Last Round
1962This Madding Crowd
1962Foundry Town as Mr. Noda
1962Kimagure tosei
1962Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1961Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961Gun of Nosappu
1961Lost in the Sun
1961The Crimson Plains as Koike
1961Gambler in the Sea
1961Yojimbo as Ronin Kobuhachi
1961Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
1961Eternity of Love
1961Pigs and Battleships as Ohachi
1961Happiness of Us Alone
1960Volunteering for Villainy as Deka
1960The Bad Sleep Well as Itakura
1959Room for Let
1959High Teen
1958The Hidden Fortress as Samurai (uncredited)
1958Endless Desire as Brutal yakuza
1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Narrator (uncredited)
1957Throne of Blood as Guard killed by Washizu
1956The Thick-Walled Room
1955Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1954How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Ronin on the ship
1954Seven Samurai as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
1953An Inlet of Muddy Water