Daisuke Katō

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
February 18, 1911 (64 years old)
Died
July 31, 1975
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Popular Genres
Drama Action History
Career Span
1936 – 1972

Daisuke Katō

25 nominations
168 credits

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.

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Personal Info

Born
Feb 18, 1911
From
Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Acting
Career
1936 – 1972

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25
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Complete Filmography

1972

First Love

1971

Morning for Two

1968

Admiral Yamamoto as Chief of Press Section Award
Gamblers: The Raid as Kichigorō
The Night before Pearl Harbor as Kusanagi
Rose Buds in the Rainbow as Gôzô Maeda

1967

Japan's Longest Day as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director Award
Two in the Shadow as Hayashida
The Greatest Challenge of All
Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Kusanagi
The Bogus Policeman
Secret Assignment as Kusanagi
Zoku izuko e

1966

Moment of Terror as Kawashima
The Thin Line
Rise Against the Sword as Budeuemon Hattori
The Daphne
The School of Spies as Lieutenant Kusanagi
Once a Rainy Day
Assignment Cloud as Kusanagi

1965

The Radish and the Carrot
Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai
Five Gents' Trick Book
Stairs of Evil as Konishi

1964

Zoku shachō shinshiroku
Hail the 3 Gents
The Naked Executive as Tadokori - Executive
Superexpress as Yukichi Nakae
Nippon Paradise
I'm a Bodyguard
How to Make Money
The Sharks

1963

A Woman's Life
Crazy Operation
社長漫遊記
Nonsense Boys

1962

An Autumn Afternoon as Yoshitaro Sakamoto Award
Chûshingura as Kichiemon Terasaka Award
The Wiser Age as Ryokichi
A Wanderer's Notebook as Nobuo Sadaoka
Star of Hong Kong as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
続サラリーマン清水港
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
Born in Sin
Pachinko
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Ottamage ningyo monogatari

1961

Yojimbo as Inokichi Award
The End of Summer as Kitagawa Yanosuke Award
The Masterless 47 – Part II
The Preacher of Love
Awamori-kun kanpai!
A Night in Hong Kong as Kenkichi Matsuyama
Snow in the South Seas
Kigeki ekimae bentō

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Matsukichi Sekine Award
Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Shusuke Tetsumoto
This Greedy Old Skin
The Masterless 47 as Jyusaburo Onodera
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
The Approach of Autumn as Tomioka
The Gambling Samurai as Enzo Niko
Hito mo arukeba as Namitaro Namiki
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Beyond the Hills as Yakichi Wada

1959

I Want to Be a Shellfish as Takeuchi
Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
The Terrible Game as Uncle Zenkichi
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
社長太平記

1958

Summer Clouds
Little Peach as Suga
Bright Young Maidens as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
Assistant President
Yaji and Kita on the Road as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
The Third President
The Naked General
Oban kanketsu hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Futari dake no hashi
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1957

Untamed Woman as Onoda, the second husband Award
Snow Country as Inn proprietor
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Ushinosuke Akaba
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Itohan Monogatari as Matsukichi
Ôban as Ushinosuke Akaba

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Toji Gion Award
Street of Shame as Mr. Nomura Award
Early Spring as Sakamoto Award
A Wife's Heart
Fountainhead
Flowing as Yoneko's Ex
Sudden Rain as Kawakami
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style as Kamo Jinnai
Outlaw island
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Storm
Samurai of the Great Earth
Dotanba

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Toji Gion Award
Floating Clouds as Seikichi Mukai Award
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji as Genta
The Lone Journey
Ejima and Ikushima as 井口
The Romance of Yushima
Foul Play as Goro Seo
Twilight Saloon as Kibe
五十円横町
No Time for Tears
Seven Masks of Revenge
A Woman's Life as police officer
Mune yori mune ni as Hazama
Here Is a Spring

1954

Seven Samurai as Shichiroji Award
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Toji Award
Late Chrysanthemums as Itaya
Mother's First Love
The Surf as Chiyoko's Father
Turbid Youth
Mako Osorubeshi
爆笑天国　とんち教室
All of Myself as Oda Jukichi

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Mr. Pu
Yasugorō shusse
An Edoite Judge as Tasuke Uoya
Ganpeki
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
The Blue Revolution
Jirocho's Home-Coming

1952

Ikiru as Yakuza Award
The Life of Oharu as Tasaburo Hishiya Award
Mother as Sokichi Kimura
Vendetta of a Samurai
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Forty-Eight Man
Fuun Senryobune
Shanghai Rose as Liu, Ding's men
恐妻時代 as Nakahata
三万両五十三次
Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

1951

The Tale of Genji
A Spectacular Murder
The Killing of Otsuya as Mita
The Bitch as Gorō Matoba
The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Tajimi
上州鴉

1950

Rashomon as Policeman Award
A Man from Akagi
The Motherland Far Far Away as Tommy Shôkyokusai
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Shinkichi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Shinkichi
The Man Who Laughs Last
Goblin Courier
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood as Yasu

1948

G-Men of Japan

1941

The 47 Ronin as Fuwa Kazuemon Award

1938

The Abe Clan

1937

Humanity and Paper Balloons as Isuke
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

1936

Priest of Darkness as Kenta

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Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Ikiru
Yojimbo
The Life of Oharu
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
An Autumn Afternoon
Japan's Longest Day

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