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

Kimi no na wa

永橋

Natchan no shashinkan

父・西城賢輔

Akō Rōshi

Horibe Yasubee

Life of a Flower

Kaneko Magojiro

Seven Samurai

Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Kahei Nirei

Ran

Koyota Hatakeyama

Throne of Blood

Guard killed by Washizu

Filmography

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

Year	TV Show	Role
1991	Kimi no na wa	永橋
1988	Hana no Asuka gumi!	Shinomiya
1987	Iki no Iiyatsu
1984	Choudenshi Bioman	Takashi
1983	Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1983	古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ	Kahei Nirei
1980	Natchan no shashinkan	父・西城賢輔
1964	Akō Rōshi	Horibe Yasubee
1963	Life of a Flower	Kaneko Magojiro