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.

Known For

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Seven Samurai

High and Low

Kimi no na wa

Ran

Akō Rōshi

Life of a Flower

Choudenshi Bioman

All Movies (151)

Mifune: The Last Samurai2016 · as Self - Actor
Free and Easy 20: Final2009
You'll Die Six Hours Later2008
Free and Easy 182007
Murder of the Inugami Clan2006 · as Todoroki Shochô
Free and Easy 172006
Japan Sinks2006 · as Professor Yamashiro
Aogeba Tôtoshi2006 · as Koichi's father
Free and Easy 162005 · as Akiyama
Free and Easy 152004
Tracing Jake2004
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'2002 · as Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'2002 · as Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'2002 · as Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'2002 · as Self
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space2002 · as Zombie Cat (Voice)
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project2001 · as Managing Director Akiyama
Run Ichiro Run2001
Dora-heita2000 · as Toneri Uchijima
Across a Gold Prairie1999 · as Takashi Kanzaki
The Geisha House1999 · as Kitayama
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition1998
Free and Easy 101998
The 8-Tomb Village1996
Free and Easy 81996
Free and Easy 71994
Free and Easy Special1994
Free and Easy 61993
XX: Beautiful Weapon1993 · as Yasuhiro Kokubu
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns1993
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!1993
Free and Easy 51992
Free and Easy 41991 · as Akiyama
The Great Shogunate Battle1991
Noh Mask Murders1991 · as Assistant Inspector Senba
Virgin Road1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood1989 · as Kohei Kashi
Company Executives1989
Crybaby Chacha1987
Godzilla 19851985 · as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
Odin: Starlight Mutiny1985 · as Takeshi Suzuka
Yume-Chiyo1985
Ran1985 · as Koyota Hatakeyama
For Kayako1984 · as Kyusu Im
Watashi no naka no shōfu1984 · as Fisherman A
Location1984 · as Hara
Zero1984 · as Ugaki
Marriage Counselor Tora-san1984 · as Kingo
Dansen1983
The Fir Trees Remain1983
The Politicians1983
Children of Nagasaki1983
Voice from the Dark1983 · as Toyokichi Kuze
Fossilized Wilderness1982
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp1982 · as Grand Wazir (voice)
Hamuretto wa yukue fumei1981
Flame of Father and Son1981
Lonely Heart1981
The First Catch1980
Koto: The Ancient City1980
The House of Hanging1979 · as Inspector Todoroki
The Phoenix1978 · as Kamamushi
Love and Faith1978
Queen Bee1978 · as Detective Todoroki
Island of Hell1977 · as Inspector Todoroki
Lullaby to Kill1977 · as Inspector Tachibana
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh1976
The Inugami Family1976 · as Police Chief Tachibana
The Gate of Youth1975
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics1974 · as Noburo Uchimoto
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War1973 · as Noboru Uchimoto
Miyamoto Musashi1973 · as Iwama Kakubei
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro1973 · as Kikutarō Yamada
Battles Without Honor and Humanity1973 · as Noburo Uchimoto
The Class of the Sewage Canal1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy1972
Summer Soldiers1972 · as Driver
The Pirates of Buban1972
Love for Eternity1971
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai1971
300 Million Yen Mission1971
Zenigeba1970
The Summit of Mt. Fuji1970
The Girl I Abandoned1969
Battle of the Japan Sea1969 · as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool1969
Trigger-Happy1968
Kawachi fūten zoku1968
Neon taiheiki1968
The Sands of Kurobe1968 · as Kunikida
Japan's Longest Day1967 · as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
Scorpion1967
Fighting Elegy1966
The Great White Tower1966 · as Professor Nozaka
Kill or Be Killed1966
Moment of Terror1966
Sword of the Beast1965 · as Katori
House of Terrors1965 · as Keisuke Munakata
Three Yakuza1965
The Last Judgment1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars1965 · as Public prosecutor Tamura
Zatoichi's Revenge1965 · as Koheita Kadokura
None But the Brave1965 · as Sgt. Tamura
New Treasure Island1965 · as Long John Silver (voice)
The Spying Sorceress1964
Whirlpool of Flesh1964 · as Segawa
Two Lives, Two Yakuza1964 · as Makoto Misugi
Night Scandal in Japan1964
Only on Mondays1964 · as Yuka's sugar-daddy
Monrō no yōna onna1964
Mother1963 · as Toshiro
The Gambling Monk1963
The Navy1963
午前零時の出獄1963
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai1963
High and Low1963 · as Detective Nakao
Ninja, A Band of Assassins1962
A Wanderer's Notebook1962 · as Uenoyama
Let's Meet in Our Dreams1962
The Lucky General1962
Last Round1962
This Madding Crowd1962
Foundry Town1962 · as Mr. Noda
Kimagure tosei1962
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi1962
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains1961
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab1961
Gun of Nosappu1961
Lost in the Sun1961
The Crimson Plains1961 · as Koike
Gambler in the Sea1961
Yojimbo1961 · as Ronin Kobuhachi
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū1961
Eternity of Love1961
Pigs and Battleships1961 · as Ohachi
Happiness of Us Alone1961
Volunteering for Villainy1960 · as Deka
The Bad Sleep Well1960 · as Itakura
Room for Let1959
High Teen1959
The Hidden Fortress1958 · as Samurai (uncredited)
Endless Desire1958 · as Brutal yakuza
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era1957 · as Narrator (uncredited)
Throne of Blood1957 · as Guard killed by Washizu
The Thick-Walled Room1956
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made1955
How the Bell of Liberty Rings1954 · as Ronin on the ship
Seven Samurai1954 · as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
An Inlet of Muddy Water1953

All TV Shows (11)

The Tale of Genji1991
Kimi no na wa1991 · as 永橋
Hana no Asuka-gumi!1988 · as Shinomiya
Iki no Iiyatsu1987
Choudenshi Bioman1984 · as Takashi
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin1983
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series1983 · as Kahei Nirei
Natchan no shashinkan1980 · as 父・西城賢輔
Akō Rōshi1964 · as Horibe Yasubee
Life of a Flower1963 · as Kaneko Magojiro
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