Takeshi Katō
Acting
Born: May 24, 1929 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: July 31, 2015 (aged 86)
Highest Rated
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
1954
Ran
1985
Yojimbo
1961
High and Low
1963
Throne of Blood
1957
The Hidden Fortress
1958
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Godzilla 1985
1985
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Sword of the Beast
1965
Pigs and Battleships
1961
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Photos (4)
Movies (147)
Seven Samurai
Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
Ran
Koyota Hatakeyama
High and Low
Detective Nakao
XX: Beautiful Weapon
Yasuhiro Kokubu
Yojimbo
Ronin Kobuhachi
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
None But the Brave
Sgt. Tamura
Battle of the Japan Sea
Chief of Staff Officer Kato
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Kohei Kashi
Fighting Elegy
1966
Japan Sinks
Professor Yamashiro
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Noburo Uchimoto
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Noboru Uchimoto
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Narrator (uncredited)
Japan's Longest Day
Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
Island of Hell
Inspector Todoroki
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
Pigs and Battleships
Ohachi
The Inugami Family
Police Chief Tachibana
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Noburo Uchimoto
The 8-Tomb Village
1996
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Grand Wazir (voice)
Battleship Yamato
General Koshirō Oikawa
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Takeshi Suzuka
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Neon taiheiki
1968
Room for Let
1959
Miyamoto Musashi
Iwama Kakubei
Lonely Heart
1981
Zero
Ugaki
Endless Desire
Brutal yakuza
Free and Easy 16
Akiyama
Mother
Toshiro
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Managing Director Akiyama
Only on Mondays
Yuka's sugar-daddy
Tracing Jake
2004
Gun of Nosappu
1961
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
The Great White Tower
Professor Nozaka
Aogeba Tôtoshi
Koichi's father
Night Scandal in Japan
1964
The Geisha House
Kitayama
Free and Easy 5
1992
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Todoroki Shochô
Zatoichi's Revenge
Koheita Kadokura
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
1993
Kimagure tosei
1962
Company Executives
1989
Free and Easy 6
1993
Free and Easy 4
Akiyama
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Zombie Cat (Voice)
Free and Easy 17
2006
Moment of Terror
1966
Free and Easy 15
2004
Free and Easy 8
1996
For Kayako
Kyusu Im
Sword of the Beast
Katori
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Dora-heita
Toneri Uchijima
The Fir Trees Remain
1983
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962
Three Yakuza
1965
A Wanderer's Notebook
Uenoyama
Queen Bee
Detective Todoroki
The Thick-Walled Room
1956
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961
Lullaby to Kill
Inspector Tachibana
The House of Hanging
Inspector Todoroki
Children of Nagasaki
1983
The Gate of Youth
1975
Noh Mask Murders
Assistant Inspector Senba
Yume-Chiyo
1985
Free and Easy 18
2007
Free and Easy 7
1994
The Phoenix
Kamamushi
The Sands of Kurobe
Kunikida
Koto: The Ancient City
1980
Location
Hara
Whirlpool of Flesh
Segawa
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Public prosecutor Tamura
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
Eternity of Love
1961
The Politicians
1983
House of Terrors
Keisuke Munakata
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
You'll Die Six Hours Later
2008
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Kingo
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
The Girl I Abandoned
1969
Let's Meet in Our Dreams
1962
Free and Easy 20: Final
2009
Free and Easy 10
1998
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Run Ichiro Run
2001
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970
The Last Judgment
1965
Happiness of Us Alone
1961
Kawachi fūten zoku
1968
Kill or Be Killed
1966
Foundry Town
Mr. Noda
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
1993
Virgin Road
1989
This Madding Crowd
1962
The Class of the Sewage Canal
1972
The Gambling Monk
1963
午前零時の出獄
1963
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1976
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1998
The Lucky General
1962
New Treasure Island
Long John Silver (voice)
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
Love and Faith
1978
Crybaby Chacha
1987
Watashi no naka no shōfu
Fisherman A
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1971
Free and Easy Special
1994
The Pirates of Buban
1972
The First Catch
1980
Summer Soldiers
Driver
Flame of Father and Son
1981
I Fly for Kicks
Ginzo Iwamoto
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Ronin on the ship
The Spying Sorceress
1964
Lost in the Sun
1961
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Volunteering for Villainy
Deka
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1969
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
Makoto Misugi
Last Round
1962
The Navy
1963
Voice from the Dark
Toyokichi Kuze
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
1961
High Teen
1959
Dansen
1983
Across a Gold Prairie
Takashi Kanzaki
300 Million Yen Mission
1971
Love for Eternity
1971
Zenigeba
1970
Trigger-Happy
1968
Scorpion
1967
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
Kikutarō Yamada
The Crimson Plains
Koike
TV Shows (10)
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
Kahei Nirei · 1 eps
Choudenshi Bioman
Takashi · 1 eps
Kimi no na wa
永橋 · 312 eps
Life of a Flower
Kaneko Magojiro · 39 eps
The Tale of Genji
2 eps
Natchan no shashinkan
父・西城賢輔 · 156 eps
Akō Rōshi
Horibe Yasubee · 52 eps
Iki no Iiyatsu
23 eps
Hana no Asuka-gumi!
Shinomiya · 23 eps
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1 eps
Self / Appearances (5)
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Actor
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
Self
