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Takeshi Katō

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

24/05/1929

Day of Death

31/07/2015
(86) years old

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

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

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Free and Easy 20: Final

You'll Die Six Hours Later

Free and Easy 18

Murder of the Inugami Clan

Free and Easy 17

Japan Sinks

Aogeba Tôtoshi

Free and Easy 16

Free and Easy 15

Filmography

Cast

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 Creat...

as Self

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Creat...

as Self

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Creat...

as Self

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Creat...

as Self

2002

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

as Zombie Cat (Voice)

2001

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Proj...

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

Free and Easy 4

as Akiyama

1991

The Great Shogunate Battle

1991

Noh Mask Murders

as Assistant Inspector Senba

1989

Virgin Road

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Kohei Kashi

1989

Company Executives

1987

Crybaby Chacha

1985

Godzilla 1985

as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kas...

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

1983

Dansen

1983

The Fir Trees Remain

1983

The Politicians

1983

Children of Nagasaki

1983

Voice from the Dark

as Toyokichi Kuze

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

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: Poli...

as Noburo Uchimoto

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Prox...

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 Sakomi...

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

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

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 (uncredit...

1953