Takeshi Katō
Acting
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.
Born: May 24, 1929
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
XX: Beautiful Weapon
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.
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.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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.
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Across a Gold Prairie
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.
Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Filmography
as Self - Actor
as Todoroki Shochô
as Professor Yamashiro
as Koichi's father
as Akiyama
as Zombie Cat (Voice)
as Managing Director Akiyama
as Toneri Uchijima
as Takashi Kanzaki
as Kitayama
as Yasuhiro Kokubu
as Akiyama
as 永橋
as Assistant Inspector Senba
as Kohei Kashi
as Shinomiya
as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
as Takeshi Suzuka
as Koyota Hatakeyama
as Kyusu Im
as Fisherman A
as Hara
as Ugaki
as Kingo
as Takashi
as Toyokichi Kuze
as Kahei Nirei
as Grand Wazir (voice)
as 父・西城賢輔
as Inspector Todoroki
as Kamamushi
as Detective Todoroki
as Inspector Todoroki
as Inspector Tachibana
as Police Chief Tachibana
as Noburo Uchimoto
as Noboru Uchimoto
as Iwama Kakubei
as Noburo Uchimoto
as Driver
as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
as Kunikida
as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
as Katori
as Keisuke Munakata
as Public prosecutor Tamura
as Koheita Kadokura
as Sgt. Tamura
as Long John Silver (voice)
as Segawa
as Makoto Misugi
as Yuka's sugar-daddy
as Horibe Yasubee
as Toshiro
as Kaneko Magojiro
as Detective Nakao
as Uenoyama
as Mr. Noda
as Koike
as Ronin Kobuhachi
as Ohachi
as Deka
as Itakura
as Samurai (uncredited)
as Brutal yakuza
as Narrator (uncredited)
as Guard killed by Washizu
as Ronin on the ship
as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)