Shigeo Katō
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 16, 1925
Place of Birth: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Man Who Came to Port
An Ishiro Honda film.
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.
Ultra Q
As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public. With allies and science aiding them on their journey, the trio must separate myth from history as they explore the greater mysteries of these occurrences: are they unrelated, or is this barrage somehow a portent of even worse things to come?
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
You Can Succeed, Too
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Filmography
as Old Man
as Stationmaster
as Ship Captain
as Captain of the Yahata Maru
as Hiyama(光子の父) / Mitsuko's Father
as Seisuke
as International Conference Center Security Officer
as Guest at a coffee shop (uncredited)
as Islander (uncredited)
as Man from Ogawara Town Hall
as Police Officer
as Residential police
as Deguchi
as (uncredited)
as South Pole Base Worker
as Dam Watchman
as Inspector (uncredited)
as Astronomer
as Mail Carrier (Edosaki)
as Takiyama
as Matsu
as Takaiyama
as Villager (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Farmer
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