Daisuke Katō
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: February 18, 1911
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
The Storm
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Filmography
as Zenzo
as Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.
as Ishibashi Tetsukichi
as Tetsukichi Ishibashi
as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
as Chief of Press Section
as Gôzô Maeda
as Kichigorō
as Kusanagi
as Tsutomu Ariga
as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
as Katsu Kaishu
as Hayashida
as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
as Kusanagi
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎
as Kusanagi
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
as Kusanagi
as Lieutenant Kusanagi
as Kawashima
as Kanju Goto
as Budeuemon Hattori
as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
as Konishi
as Hansuke Murai
as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
as Yukichi Nakae
as Tadokori - Executive
as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
as Executive Motohashi
as Master at 'Sekine'
as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
as Kichiemon Terasaka
as Nobuo Sadaoka
as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
as Ryokichi
as Kitagawa Yanosuke
as Kenkichi Matsuyama
as Zensuke Kuramochi
as Inokichi
as Kuramochi Zensuke
as Jyusaburo Onodera
as Tomioka
as Kumakichi Onizuka
as Kyosuke Tsumura
as Okubo Hikosaburō
as Shusuke Tetsumoto
as Uchuu Takeda
as Enzo Niko
as Ōkubo Hikosaburō
as Namitaro Namiki
as Yakichi Wada
as Matsukichi Sekine
as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
as Uncle Zenkichi
as Renzō Dōjima
as Kumahira Onizuka
as Jirō Shimizu
as Kyota Aoshima
as Takeuchi
as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
as Hajime Sawada
as Kikuzō (head clerk)
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
as Suga
as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
as Sōda Hajime
as Ushinosuke Akaba
as Sōda Hajime
as Onoda, the second husband
as Inn proprietor
as Ushinosuke Akaba
as Matsukichi
as Yoneko's Ex
as Mr. Nomura
as Kamo Jinnai
as Sakamoto
as Kawakami
as Toji Gion
as Hazama
as 井口
as Toji Gion
as Kibe
as Genta
as police officer
as Seikichi Mukai
as Goro Seo
as Chiyoko's Father
as Toji
as Itaya
as Oda Jukichi
as Shichiroji
as Tasuke Uoya
as Nakahata
as Yakuza
as Liu, Ding's men
as Sokichi Kimura
as Tasaburo Hishiya
as Gorō Matoba
as Mita
as Tajimi
as Policeman
as Tommy Shôkyokusai
as Shinkichi
as Shinkichi
as Fuwa Kazuemon
as Isuke
as Kenta