Takeshi Katō
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 24 May 1929 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- 31 July 2015
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
Acting 155
- 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
- 2009Free and Easy 20: Final
- 2008You'll Die Six Hours Later
- 2007Free and Easy 18
- 2006Murder of the Inugami Clan as Todoroki Shochô
- 2006Free and Easy 17
- 2006Japan Sinks as Professor Yamashiro
- 2006Aogeba Tôtoshi as Koichi's father
- 2005Free and Easy 16 as Akiyama
- 2004Free and Easy 15
- 2004Tracing Jake
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
- 2002Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space as Zombie Cat (Voice)
- 2001Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
- 2001Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
- 2001Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project as Managing Director Akiyama
- 2001Run Ichiro Run
- 2000Dora-heita as Toneri Uchijima
- 1999Across a Gold Prairie as Takashi Kanzaki
- 1999The Geisha House as Kitayama
- 1998Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
- 1998Free and Easy 10
- 1996The 8-Tomb Village
- 1996Free and Easy 8
- 1994Free and Easy 7
- 1994Free and Easy Special
- 1993Free and Easy 6
- 1993XX: Beautiful Weapon as Yasuhiro Kokubu
- 1993Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
- 1993Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
- 1992Free and Easy 5
- 1991The Tale of Genji
- 1991Free and Easy 4 as Akiyama
- 1991The Great Shogunate Battle
- 1991Noh Mask Murders as Assistant Inspector Senba
- 1990Battleship Yamato as General Koshirō Oikawa
- 1989Virgin Road
- 1989Four Days of Snow and Blood as Kohei Kashi
- 1989Company Executives
- 1987Crybaby Chacha
- 1985Godzilla 1985 as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
- 1985Odin: Starlight Mutiny as Takeshi Suzuka
- 1985Yume-Chiyo
- 1985Ran as Koyota Hatakeyama
- 1984For Kayako as Kyusu Im
- 1984Watashi no naka no shōfu as Fisherman A
- 1984Location as Hara
- 1984Zero as Ugaki
- 1984Marriage Counselor Tora-san as 金吾
- 1983Dansen
- 1983The Fir Trees Remain
- 1983The Politicians
- 1983Children of Nagasaki
- 1983Voice from the Dark as Toyokichi Kuze
- 1982Fossilized Wilderness
- 1982Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp as Grand Wazir (voice)
- 1981Hamuretto wa yukue fumei
- 1981Flame of Father and Son
- 1981Lonely Heart
- 1980The First Catch
- 1980Koto: The Ancient City
- 1979The House of Hanging as Inspector Todoroki
- 1978The Phoenix as Kamamushi
- 1978Love and Faith
- 1978Queen Bee as Detective Todoroki
- 1977Island of Hell as Inspector Todoroki
- 1977Lullaby to Kill as Inspector Tachibana
- 1976The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
- 1976The Inugami Family as Police Chief Tachibana
- 1975The Gate of Youth
- 1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Noburo Uchimoto
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Noboru Uchimoto
- 1973Miyamoto Musashi as Iwama Kakubei
- 1973Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro as Kikutarō Yamada
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Noburo Uchimoto
- 1972The Class of the Sewage Canal
- 1972Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
- 1972Summer Soldiers as Driver
- 1972The Pirates of Buban
- 1971Love for Eternity
- 1971Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
- 1971300 Million Yen Mission
- 1970Zenigeba
- 1970The Summit of Mt. Fuji
- 1969The Girl I Abandoned
- 1969Battle of the Japan Sea as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
- 1969Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
- 1968Trigger-Happy
- 1968Kawachi fūten zoku
- 1968Neon taiheiki
- 1968The Sands of Kurobe as Kunikida
- 1967Japan's Longest Day as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
- 1967Scorpion
- 1966Fighting Elegy
- 1966The Great White Tower as Professor Nozaka
- 1966Kill or Be Killed
- 1966Moment of Terror
- 1965Sword of the Beast as Katori
- 1965House of Terrors as Keisuke Munakata
- 1965Three Yakuza
- 1965The Last Judgment
- 1965Tale of Japanese Burglars as Public prosecutor Tamura
- 1965Zatoichi's Revenge as Koheita Kadokura
- 1965None But the Brave as Sgt. Tamura
- 1965New Treasure Island as Long John Silver (voice)
- 1964The Spying Sorceress
- 1964Whirlpool of Flesh as Segawa
- 1964Two Lives, Two Yakuza as Makoto Misugi
- 1964Night Scandal in Japan
- 1964Only on Mondays as Yuka's sugar-daddy
- 1964Monrō no yōna onna
- 1963Mother as Toshiro
- 1963The Gambling Monk
- 1963The Navy
- 1963午前零時の出獄
- 1963Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
- 1963Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
- 1963I Fly for Kicks as Ginzo Iwamoto
- 1963High and Low as Detective Nakao
- 1962Ninja, A Band of Assassins
- 1962A Wanderer's Notebook as Uenoyama
- 1962Let's Meet in Our Dreams
- 1962The Lucky General
- 1962Last Round
- 1962This Madding Crowd
- 1962Foundry Town as Mr. Noda
- 1962Kimagure tosei
- 1962Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
- 1961Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- 1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
- 1961Gun of Nosappu
- 1961Lost in the Sun
- 1961The Crimson Plains as Koike
- 1961Gambler in the Sea
- 1961Yojimbo as Ronin Kobuhachi
- 1961Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
- 1961Eternity of Love
- 1961Pigs and Battleships as Ohachi
- 1961Happiness of Us Alone
- 1960Volunteering for Villainy as Deka
- 1960The Bad Sleep Well as Itakura
- 1959Room for Let
- 1959High Teen
- 1958The Hidden Fortress as Samurai (uncredited)
- 1958Endless Desire as Brutal yakuza
- 1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1957Throne of Blood as Guard killed by Washizu
- 1956The Thick-Walled Room
- 1955Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- 1954How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Ronin on the ship
- 1954Seven Samurai as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
- 1953An Inlet of Muddy Water