Daisuke Katō

Feb 18, 1911 - Jul 31, 1975 (64 years old) in Tokyo, Japan

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.

Known For

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Seven Samurai

Shichiroji

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Ikiru

Yakuza

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Yojimbo

Inokichi

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Chûshingura

Kichiemon Terasaka

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Matsukichi Sekine

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The Life of Oharu

Tasaburo Hishiya

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Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Shusuke Tetsumoto

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Street of Shame

Mr. Nomura

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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Toji Gion

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Japan's Longest Day

Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Credits

Tokyo do mannaka 1974

Zenzo

★ NR
First Love 1972

★ NR
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday 1971

Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.

★ NR
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President 1971

Kintaro Igari

★ NR
Morning for Two 1971

★ NR
Five Gents and a Kuniang 1970

Ishibashi Tetsukichi

★ NR
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan 1970

Tetsukichi Ishibashi

★ NR
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II 1969

Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)

★ NR
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu 1969

Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)

★ NR
Admiral Yamamoto 1968

Chief of Press Section

★ 8.3
Rose Buds in the Rainbow 1968

Gôzô Maeda

★ NR
Gamblers: The Raid 1968

Kichigorō

★ NR
The Night before Pearl Harbor 1968

Kusanagi

★ 10
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant 1968

Tsutomu Ariga

★ NR
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa 1968

Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)

★ NR
Ryoma ga Yuku 1968

Katsu Kaishu

★ NR
Two in the Shadow 1967

Hayashida

★ 7.6
The Greatest Challenge of All 1967

★ 7
Japan's Longest Day 1967

Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

★ 7.2
Secret Assignment 1967

Kusanagi

★ 10
Five Gents Prefer Geisha 1967

Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

★ NR
The Bogus Policeman 1967

★ NR
Zoku izuko e 1967

★ NR
Tabiji 1967

塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎

★ NR
Assignment Dragon No. 3 1967

Kusanagi

★ 7
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents 1967

Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

★ NR
Once a Rainy Day 1966

★ NR
The Daphne 1966

★ NR
Assignment Cloud 1966

Kusanagi

★ 2
The School of Spies 1966

Lieutenant Kusanagi

★ 6.5
Moment of Terror 1966

Kawashima

★ 5.8
Five Gents on the Spot 1966

Kanju Goto

★ NR
The Thin Line 1966

★ 7.3
Rise Against the Sword 1966

Budeuemon Hattori

★ 6.5
A Company President's Life Story 1966

Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)

★ NR
Stairs of Evil 1965

Konishi

★ 5
We Will Remember 1965

★ NR
Sanshiro Sugata 1965

Hansuke Murai

★ 6.9
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II 1965

Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)

★ NR
The Radish and the Carrot 1965

★ 10
Five Gents' Trick Book 1965

★ NR
Superexpress 1964

Yukichi Nakae

★ 8
Nippon Paradise 1964

★ NR
The Naked Executive 1964

Tadokori - Executive

★ NR
The Sharks 1964

★ NR
I'm a Bodyguard 1964

★ NR
3 Gents in the Snow Country 1964

★ NR
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag 1964

★ NR
How to Make Money 1964

★ NR
Hail the 3 Gents 1964

Tomioka (Sales Manager)

★ NR
We Are Salarymen 1963

Executive Motohashi

★ NR
A Woman's Life 1963

★ 7
Miren 1963

Master at 'Sekine'

★ NR
Nonsense Boys 1963

★ NR
Company President Travels Abroad Part II 1963

Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)

★ NR
Company President Travels Abroad 1963

Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)

★ NR
Crazy Operation: First Move 1963

★ NR
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II 1963

Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)

★ NR
Devices Stronger Than Women 1963

Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)

★ NR
Travel Stories of a Company President 1963

★ NR
Pachinko 1962

★ NR
Born in Sin 1962

★ NR
An Autumn Afternoon 1962

Yoshitaro Sakamoto

★ 7.8
Chûshingura 1962

Kichiemon Terasaka

★ 7.2
Shin kitsune to tanuki 1962

★ NR
A Wanderer's Notebook 1962

Nobuo Sadaoka

★ 7.2
Star of Hong Kong 1962

Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law

★ NR
Ottamage ningyo monogatari 1962

★ NR
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong 1962

★ 5.8
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo 1962

★ NR
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni 1962

★ NR
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II 1962

★ NR
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun 1962

★ NR
The Wiser Age 1962

Ryokichi

★ 7.3
Shimizu Port Salaryman 1962

★ NR
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox 1961

★ NR
The End of Summer 1961

Kitagawa Yanosuke

★ 7.5
Awamori-kun kanpai! 1961

★ NR
Snow in the South Seas 1961

★ NR
A Night in Hong Kong 1961

Kenkichi Matsuyama

★ NR
Playboy President: Part II 1961

Zensuke Kuramochi

★ NR
Yojimbo 1961

Inokichi

★ 8.1
Playboy President 1961

Kuramochi Zensuke

★ NR
The Masterless 47 – Part II 1961

★ NR
The Preacher of Love 1961

★ NR
The Masterless 47 1960

Jyusaburo Onodera

★ NR
Chikuhō no kodomotachi 1960

★ NR
The Approach of Autumn 1960

Tomioka

★ 6.9
This Greedy Old Skin 1960

★ NR
Jiyūgaoka fujin 1960

★ NR
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education 1960

Kumakichi Onizuka

★ NR
Singing in the Sun 1960

Kyosuke Tsumura

★ NR
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success 1960

Okubo Hikosaburō

★ NR
Daughters, Wives and a Mother 1960

Shusuke Tetsumoto

★ 7.1
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller 1960

Uchuu Takeda

★ NR
The Gambling Samurai 1960

Enzo Niko

★ 6.3
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes 1960

Ōkubo Hikosaburō

★ NR
Hito mo arukeba 1960

Namitaro Namiki

★ NR
Beyond the Hills 1960

Yakichi Wada

★ NR
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960

Matsukichi Sekine

★ 7.9
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking 1960

Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)

★ NR
The Terrible Game 1959

Uncle Zenkichi

★ NR
Young Lovers 1959

Renzō Dōjima

★ NR
Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers 1959

★ NR
New Third-Class Executive 1959

Kumahira Onizuka

★ NR
The College Ruggers 1959

Jirō Shimizu

★ NR
Fox and Raccoon 1959

Kyota Aoshima

★ NR
I Want to Be a Shellfish 1959

Takeuchi

★ 10
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents 1959

★ NR
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period 1959

★ NR
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku 1958

★ NR
The Naked General 1958

★ NR
Bright Young Maidens 1958

Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father

★ NR
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 1958

Hajime Sawada

★ NR
Summer Clouds 1958

★ 7.5
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring 1958

Kikuzō (head clerk)

★ NR
Oban kanketsu hen 1958

Ushinotsuke Akabane

★ NR
Little Peach 1958

Suga

★ 5.9
Yaji and Kita on the Road 1958

Yajirobei Tochimen'ya

★ NR
Holiday in Tokyo 1958

★ NR
The Third President 1958

★ NR
A Bridge for Two Alone 1958

★ NR
Assistant President 1958

★ NR
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen 1957

Ushinotsuke Akabane

★ NR
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 1957

Sōda Hajime

★ NR
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen 1957

Ushinosuke Akaba

★ NR
Diary of a Successful Salaryman 1957

Sōda Hajime

★ NR
Untamed Woman 1957

Onoda, the second husband

★ 7.4
Snow Country 1957

Inn proprietor

★ 6.7
Ôban 1957

Ushinosuke Akaba

★ NR
Itohan Monogatari 1957

Matsukichi

★ NR
Flowing 1956

Yoneko's Ex

★ 7.1
Dotanba 1956

★ 6
The Storm 1956

★ 9
Will-o'-the-Wisp 1956

★ NR
Outlaw island 1956

★ NR
A Wife's Heart 1956

★ 6.8
Street of Shame 1956

Mr. Nomura

★ 7.7
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style 1956

Kamo Jinnai

★ 5.3
Fountainhead 1956

★ 5.8
Dadakko Shachou 1956

★ NR
Early Spring 1956

Sakamoto

★ 7.5
Samurai of the Great Earth 1956

★ NR
Sudden Rain 1956

Kawakami

★ 6.5
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956

Toji Gion

★ 7.2
Mune yori mune ni 1955

Hazama

★ NR
Ejima and Ikushima 1955

井口

★ NR
The Romance of Yushima 1955

★ 6
The Lone Journey 1955

★ NR
Seven Masks of Revenge 1955

★ NR
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955

Toji Gion

★ 7.2
五十円横町 1955

★ NR
Twilight Saloon 1955

Kibe

★ 8
No Time for Tears 1955

★ NR
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji 1955

Genta

★ 7.4
Here Is a Spring 1955

★ 7.3
Floating Clouds 1955

Seikichi Mukai

★ 7.7
Foul Play 1955

Goro Seo

★ 6
The Surf 1954

Chiyoko's Father

★ NR
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 1954

Toji

★ 7.2
Turbid Youth 1954

★ NR
Mother's First Love 1954

★ NR
爆笑天国　とんち教室 1954

★ NR
Mako Osorubeshi 1954

★ NR
Late Chrysanthemums 1954

Itaya

★ 7.3
All of Myself 1954

Oda Jukichi

★ NR
Seven Samurai 1954

Shichiroji

★ 8.5
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow 1953

★ NR
Jirocho's Home-Coming 1953

★ NR
The Blue Revolution 1953

★ NR
Ganpeki 1953

★ NR
Mr. Pu 1953

★ 6.5
Yasugorō shusse 1953

★ NR
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu 1953

★ NR
An Edoite Judge 1953

Tasuke Uoya

★ NR
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds 1952

★ NR
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu 1952

★ NR
The Woman Who Touched the Legs 1952

★ NR
恐妻時代 1952

Nakahata

★ NR
Ikiru 1952

Yakuza

★ 8.3
Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil 1952

★ NR
Shanghai Rose 1952

Liu, Ding's men

★ NR
Forty-Eight Man 1952

★ NR
Mother 1952

Sokichi Kimura

★ 6.8
The Life of Oharu 1952

Tasaburo Hishiya

★ 7.7
三万両五十三次 1952

★ NR
Vendetta of a Samurai 1952

★ 6.8
The Bitch 1951

Gorō Matoba

★ NR
The Tale of Genji 1951

★ 5.5
上州鴉 1951

★ NR
The Killing of Otsuya 1951

Mita

★ NR
A Spectacular Murder 1951

★ NR
The Inner Palace Conspiracy 1951

Tajimi

★ NR
A Man from Akagi 1950

★ NR
Rashomon 1950

Policeman

★ 8
The Motherland Far Far Away 1950

Tommy Shôkyokusai

★ NR
Ore wa yōjimbō 1950

★ NR
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape 1950

★ NR
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain 1949

★ NR
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 1949

Shinkichi

★ 6.5
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 1949

Shinkichi

★ 6.5
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood 1949

Yasu

★ NR
The Man Who Laughs Last 1949

★ NR
Goblin Courier 1949

★ 6
G-Men of Japan 1948

★ NR
The 47 Ronin 1941

Fuwa Kazuemon

★ 6.9
The Abe Clan 1938

★ NR
Humanity and Paper Balloons 1937

Isuke

★ 7.9
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn 1937

★ NR
Priest of Darkness 1936

Kenta

★ 7