Daisuke Katō

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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.

Known For

Seven Samurai

Shichiroji

Rashomon

Policeman

Yojimbo

Inokichi

Ikiru

Yakuza

An Autumn Afternoon

Yoshitaro Sakamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Toji

The Life of Oharu

Tasaburo Hishiya

Street of Shame

Mr. Nomura

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1974	Center of Tokyo MOVIE	Zenzo
1972	First Love MOVIE	Self
1971	First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri MOVIE	Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.
1971	First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff MOVIE	Kintaro Igari
1971	Morning for Two MOVIE	Self
1970	Five Gents and a Kuniang MOVIE	Ishibashi Tetsukichi
1970	Five Gents Fly to Taiwan MOVIE	Tetsukichi Ishibashi
1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II MOVIE	Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu MOVIE	Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
1968	Admiral Yamamoto MOVIE	Chief of Press Section
1968	Rose Buds in the Rainbow MOVIE	Gôzô Maeda
1968	Gamblers: The Raid MOVIE	Kichigorō
1968	The Night before Pearl Harbor MOVIE	Kusanagi
1968	Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant MOVIE	Tsutomu Ariga
1968	Five Gents and Karate Grandpa MOVIE	Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
1968	Ryoma ga Yuku TV	Katsu Kaishu
1967	Two in the Shadow MOVIE	Hayashida
1967	The Greatest Challenge of All MOVIE	Self
1967	Japan's Longest Day MOVIE	Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
1967	Secret Assignment MOVIE	Kusanagi
1967	Five Gents Prefer Geisha MOVIE	Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
1967	The Bogus Policeman MOVIE	Self
1967	Zoku izuko e MOVIE	Self
1967	Tabiji TV	塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎
1967	Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri MOVIE	Gunpei Otaguro
1967	Assignment Dragon No. 3 MOVIE	Kusanagi
1967	Discover Japan with the 5 Gents MOVIE	Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
1966	Once a Rainy Day MOVIE	Self
1966	The Daphne MOVIE	Self
1966	Assignment Cloud MOVIE	Kusanagi
1966	The School of Spies MOVIE	Lieutenant Kusanagi
1966	Moment of Terror MOVIE	Kawashima
1966	Five Gents on the Spot MOVIE	Kanju Goto
1966	The Stranger Within a Woman MOVIE	Self
1966	Rise Against the Sword MOVIE	Budeuemon Hattori
1966	A Company President's Life Story MOVIE	Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
1965	Stairs of Evil MOVIE	Konishi
1965	We Will Remember MOVIE	Self
1965	Sanshiro Sugata MOVIE	Hansuke Murai
1965	President's Ninja Trick Book Part II MOVIE	Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
1965	The Radish and the Carrot MOVIE	Self
1965	Five Gents' Trick Book MOVIE	Self
1964	Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins MOVIE	4th Sin & 7th Sin
1964	Superexpress MOVIE	Yukichi Nakae
1964	Nippon Paradise MOVIE	Self
1964	The Naked Executive MOVIE	Tadokori - Executive
1964	The Sharks MOVIE	Self
1964	I'm a Bodyguard MOVIE	Self
1964	3 Gents in the Snow Country MOVIE	Self
1964	Mr. Giant's Victory Flag MOVIE	Self
1964	How to Make Money MOVIE	Self
1964	Hail the 3 Gents MOVIE	Tomioka (Sales Manager)
1963	We Are Salarymen MOVIE	Executive Motohashi
1963	A Woman's Life MOVIE	Self
1963	Miren MOVIE	Master at 'Sekine'
1963	Nonsense Boys MOVIE	Self
1963	Company President Travels Abroad Part II MOVIE	Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
1963	Company President Travels Abroad MOVIE	Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
1963	Crazy Operation: First Move MOVIE	Self
1963	Travel Stories of a Company President Part II MOVIE	Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
1963	Devices Stronger Than Women MOVIE	Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
1963	Travel Stories of a Company President MOVIE	Self
1962	Pachinko MOVIE	Self
1962	Born in Sin MOVIE	Self
1962	An Autumn Afternoon MOVIE	Yoshitaro Sakamoto
1962	Chûshingura MOVIE	Kichiemon Terasaka
1962	Shin kitsune to tanuki MOVIE	Self
1962	A Wanderer's Notebook MOVIE	Nobuo Sadaoka
1962	Star of Hong Kong MOVIE	Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
1962	Ottamage ningyo monogatari MOVIE	Self
1962	Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong MOVIE	Self
1962	Three Gentlemen from Tokyo MOVIE	Self
1962	Ika naru hoshi no moto ni MOVIE	Self
1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II MOVIE	Self
1962	Kanpai! Sararīman shokun MOVIE	Self
1962	The Wiser Age MOVIE	Ryokichi
1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman MOVIE	Self
1961	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox MOVIE	Self
1961	The End of Summer MOVIE	Kitagawa Yanosuke
1961	Awamori-kun kanpai! MOVIE	Self
1961	Snow in the South Seas MOVIE	Self
1961	A Night in Hong Kong MOVIE	Kenkichi Matsuyama
1961	Playboy President: Part II MOVIE	Zensuke Kuramochi
1961	Yojimbo MOVIE	Inokichi
1961	Playboy President MOVIE	Kuramochi Zensuke
1961	The Masterless 47 – Part II MOVIE	Self
1961	The Preacher of Love MOVIE	Self
1960	The Masterless 47 MOVIE	Jyusaburo Onodera
1960	Chikuhō no kodomotachi MOVIE	Self
1960	The Husband Was a Baby MOVIE	Self
1960	The Approach of Autumn MOVIE	Tomioka
1960	Older Wife, Younger Husband MOVIE	Self
1960	This Greedy Old Skin MOVIE	Self
1960	Jiyūgaoka fujin MOVIE	Self
1960	Respect, Flatter, and Love MOVIE	Self
1960	New Third Class Executive: Husband Education MOVIE	Kumakichi Onizuka
1960	Singing in the Sun MOVIE	Kyosuke Tsumura
1960	Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success MOVIE	Okubo Hikosaburō
1960	Daughters, Wives and a Mother MOVIE	Shusuke Tetsumoto
1960	New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller MOVIE	Uchuu Takeda
1960	Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1 MOVIE	Self
1960	The Gambling Samurai MOVIE	Enzo Niko
1960	Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes MOVIE	Ōkubo Hikosaburō
1960	Hito mo arukeba MOVIE	Namitaro Namiki
1960	Beyond the Hills MOVIE	Yakichi Wada
1960	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs MOVIE	Matsukichi Sekine
1960	New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking MOVIE	Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
1959	The Terrible Game MOVIE	Uncle Zenkichi
1959	Young Lovers MOVIE	Renzō Dōjima
1959	Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers MOVIE	Self
1959	New Third-Class Executive MOVIE	Kumahira Onizuka
1959	The College Ruggers MOVIE	Jirō Shimizu
1959	Samurai in the Office MOVIE	Self
1959	Fox and Raccoon MOVIE	Kyota Aoshima
1959	I Want to Be a Shellfish MOVIE	Takeuchi
1959	Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II MOVIE	Self
1959	Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period MOVIE	Self
1958	Yajikita dōchū sugoroku MOVIE	Self
1958	The Naked General MOVIE	Self
1958	Bright Young Maidens MOVIE	Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
1958	Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 MOVIE	Hajime Sawada
1958	Summer Clouds MOVIE	Self
1958	Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring MOVIE	Kikuzō (head clerk)
1958	Oban kanketsu hen MOVIE	Ushinotsuke Akabane
1958	Little Peach MOVIE	Suga
1958	Yaji and Kita on the Road MOVIE	Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
1958	Holiday in Tokyo MOVIE	Self
1958	The Third President MOVIE	Self
1958	A Bridge for Two Alone MOVIE	Self
1958	Assistant President MOVIE	Self
1957	Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen MOVIE	Ushinotsuke Akabane
1957	Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 MOVIE	Sōda Hajime
1957	Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen MOVIE	Ushinosuke Akaba
1957	Diary of a Successful Salaryman MOVIE	Sōda Hajime
1957	Untamed Woman MOVIE	Onoda, the second husband
1957	Snow Country MOVIE	Inn proprietor
1957	Ôban MOVIE	Ushinosuke Akaba
1957	Itohan Monogatari MOVIE	Matsukichi
1956	Flowing MOVIE	Yoneko's Ex
1956	Dotanba MOVIE	Self
1956	The Storm MOVIE	Self
1956	Will-o'-the-Wisp MOVIE	Self
1956	Gendai no yokubô MOVIE	Self
1956	Outlaw island MOVIE	Self
1956	A Wife's Heart MOVIE	Self
1956	The Lady Was Pawn MOVIE	Self
1956	Street of Shame MOVIE	Mr. Nomura
1956	Swordsman of the Two Sword Style MOVIE	Kamo Jinnai
1956	Fountainhead MOVIE	Self
1956	Dadakko Shachou MOVIE	Self
1956	Early Spring MOVIE	Sakamoto
1956	Samurai of the Great Earth MOVIE	Self
1956	Sudden Rain MOVIE	Kawakami
1956	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island MOVIE	Toji Gion
1955	Mune yori mune ni MOVIE	Hazama
1955	Ejima and Ikushima MOVIE	井口
1955	The Romance of Yushima MOVIE	Self
1955	The Lone Journey MOVIE	Self
1955	Seven Masks of Revenge MOVIE	Self
1955	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple MOVIE	Toji Gion
1955	五十円横町 MOVIE	Self
1955	Twilight Saloon MOVIE	Kibe
1955	No Time for Tears MOVIE	Self
1955	Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji MOVIE	Genta
1955	Here Is a Spring MOVIE	Self
1955	A Woman's Life MOVIE	police officer
1955	Floating Clouds MOVIE	Seikichi Mukai
1955	Foul Play MOVIE	Goro Seo
1954	The Surf MOVIE	Chiyoko's Father
1954	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto MOVIE	Toji
1954	Turbid Youth MOVIE	Self
1954	Mother's First Love MOVIE	Self
1954	爆笑天国　とんち教室 MOVIE	Self
1954	Mako Osorubeshi MOVIE	Self
1954	Late Chrysanthemums MOVIE	Itaya
1954	All of Myself MOVIE	Oda Jukichi
1954	Seven Samurai MOVIE	Shichiroji
1953	Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow MOVIE	Self
1953	Jirocho's Home-Coming MOVIE	Self
1953	The Blue Revolution MOVIE	Self
1953	Ganpeki MOVIE	Self
1953	Mr. Pu MOVIE	Self
1953	Yasugorō shusse MOVIE	Self
1953	Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu MOVIE	Self
1953	An Edoite Judge MOVIE	Tasuke Uoya
1952	One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds MOVIE	Self
1952	Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu MOVIE	Self
1952	The Woman Who Touched the Legs MOVIE	Self
1952	恐妻時代 MOVIE	Nakahata
1952	Ikiru MOVIE	Yakuza
1952	Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil MOVIE	Self
1952	Shanghai Rose MOVIE	Liu, Ding's men
1952	Forty-Eight Man MOVIE	Self
1952	Mother MOVIE	Sokichi Kimura
1952	The Life of Oharu MOVIE	Tasaburo Hishiya
1952	三万両五十三次 MOVIE	Self
1952	Vendetta of a Samurai MOVIE	Self
1951	The Bitch MOVIE	Gorō Matoba
1951	The Tale of Genji MOVIE	Self
1951	上州鴉 MOVIE	Self
1951	The Killing of Otsuya MOVIE	Mita
1951	A Spectacular Murder MOVIE	Self
1951	The Inner Palace Conspiracy MOVIE	Tajimi
1950	A Man from Akagi MOVIE	Self
1950	Rashomon MOVIE	Policeman
1950	The Motherland Far Far Away MOVIE	Tommy Shôkyokusai
1950	Ore wa yōjimbō MOVIE	Self
1950	G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape MOVIE	Self
1949	The Flower That Crossed the Mountain MOVIE	Self
1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 MOVIE	Shinkichi
1949	Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 MOVIE	Shinkichi
1949	Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood MOVIE	Yasu
1949	The Man Who Laughs Last MOVIE	Self
1949	Goblin Courier MOVIE	Self
1948	G-Men of Japan MOVIE	Self
1941	The 47 Ronin MOVIE	Fuwa Kazuemon
1938	The Abe Clan MOVIE	Self
1937	Humanity and Paper Balloons MOVIE	Isuke
1937	Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn MOVIE	Self
1936	Priest of Darkness MOVIE	Kenta

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