Takeshi Katō

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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

Seven Samurai

Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)

Ran

Koyota Hatakeyama

Yojimbo

Ronin Kobuhachi

High and Low

Detective Nakao

Throne of Blood

Guard killed by Washizu

The Hidden Fortress

Samurai (uncredited)

The Bad Sleep Well

Itakura

Godzilla 1985

Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka

Full Filmography

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

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