Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

149

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-05-24

Deathday

2015-07-31 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As

Takeshi Kato
Tsuyoshi Kato
Takeshi Katō
Такэси Като

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

8.5%

Seven Samurai

Apr 26, 1954

8.1%

Ran

Jun 1, 1985

8.1%

Yojimbo

Apr 25, 1961

8.3%

High and Low

Mar 1, 1963

7.9%

Throne of Blood

Jan 15, 1957

8.0%

The Hidden Fortress

Dec 28, 1958

7.7%

The Bad Sleep Well

Sep 19, 1960

6.8%

Godzilla 1985

Aug 23, 1985

7.4%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Jan 13, 1973

7.5%

Sword of the Beast

Sep 18, 1965

7.1%

Pigs and Battleships

Jan 21, 1961

7.2%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Sep 25, 1973

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Acting

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
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 Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self
2002		Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
2002		Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
2002		Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
2002		Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space as Zombie Cat (Voice)

2001		Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project 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

Free and Easy 8

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		The Tale of Genji
1991		Free and Easy 4 as Akiyama
1991		The Great Shogunate Battle
1991		Kimi no na wa as 永橋
1991		Noh Mask Murders as Assistant Inspector Senba

1989		Virgin Road
1989		Four Days of Snow and Blood as Kohei Kashi
1989		Company Executives

1988

Hana no Asuka gumi! as Shinomiya

1987		Crybaby Chacha
1987		Iki no Iiyatsu

1985		Godzilla 1985 as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
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
1984		Choudenshi Bioman as Takashi

1983		Dansen
1983		The Fir Trees Remain
1983		Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1983		The Politicians
1983		Children of Nagasaki
1983		Voice from the Dark as Toyokichi Kuze
1983		古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ as Kahei Nirei

1982		Fossilized Wilderness
1982		Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

1981		Flame of Father and Son
1981		Lonely Heart

1980		The First Catch
1980		Koto: The Ancient City
1980		Natchan no shashinkan as 父・西城賢輔

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: Police Tactics as Noburo Uchimoto

1973		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War 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		Neon taiheiki
1968		The Sands of Kurobe as Kunikida

1967		Japan's Longest Day as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
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		Akō Rōshi as Horibe Yasubee

1963		Mother as Toshiro
1963		The Gambling Monk
1963		The Navy
1963		Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963		Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963		Life of a Flower as Kaneko Magojiro
1963		High and Low as Detective Nakao

1962		Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962		A Wanderer's Notebook as Uenoyama
1962		Yume de aimasho
1962		The Lucky General
1962		Moeru minamijūjisei
1962		This Madding Crowd
1962		Foundry Town as Mr. Noda
1962		Kimagure tosei
1962		Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1961		早射ち無頼　大平原の男
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		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

Seven Samurai as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)

1953

An Inlet of Muddy Water