Haruko Katō
Born: 1922-11-24 in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2015-11-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
Haruko Katō (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katō was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After attending the Shochiku Girls' Opera School, she joined the Shochiku Girls' Opera Company under the stage name Kyoko Mifune. She was signed by the film production company Toho in 1939, making her film debut in Hanatsumi Nikki that same year. In 1940, she joined the New Theatre Research Society, which had been founded by Hiroshi Akutagawa and Michio Kato, whom she married in 1946.
Filmography
2011
2010
- Veterinarian Dolittle
- About Her Brother as Takano Kinuo
2009
2008
- Chameleon as Noriko Yamamura
2007
- Awakening as Shigeko Miyasato
2004
- Howl's Moving Castle as Madame Suliman (voice)
- Blooming Again as Sadako Tōyama
- The Crying Wind as Shiho Fujino
2003
2001
- Pistol Opera as Shizuka Orikuchi
1998
- Bonds as Mrs. Soga
1997
- Body and Soul as Ryosuke's mother
1995
1994
- Furuhata Ninzaburo as Takayo Sasaki
1993
- Marriage Begins With A Lie as Arishima Tsuneko
- Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1991
1990
1989
- Kiki's Delivery Service as Old Lady (voice)
- The Dancer
- Kaze no Sumu Ie
1988
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Kinu Akabane
- Umi e, See You as Eiji’s mother
- Kizu
- Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
- Onna no Naka no Kaze
1987
1986
- Gonza the Spearman as Oyuki's nanny
- The House of Wedlock as Kuniko Sakazaki
- Beyond the Shining Sea as Tomie Kawamura
1985
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Grandmother
- Capone Cries a Lot as Wife
- Gray Sunset as Kikuyo Takano
- Caribe: Symphony of Love as Fumiko Sawaki
1984
- Deaths in Tokimeki as Otae-san
- Someday, Someone Will Be Killed as Shizu Nagayama
1981
- Yumechiyo Nikki
- The Wild Daisy as Kiku Saito
- 芭蕉布を織る女たち as Narrator (voice)
- Something Like It
1979
1978
- Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu as Shuzuko dojima
- Kyukei no Koya as Takako Nogami
1977
- Fuyu no Undokai
- Love in the Mud
- Sweet Revenge as Yoshiko Otsuka
- Seasonal Wind
1976
- Love Is a Hunter as Keiko Asada
- Hobo General
1971
1969
- A Thousand and One Nights as Genie (voice)
- The Girl I Abandoned
1968
- 若い川の流れ
- East China Sea as Rokurō's mother
1967
1966
- Young Girls Are Everywhere as Muneko Eda
1964
- Camellia Gate
- Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii as Shizue Funada
- Green Fruit
- Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1959
- Pilgrimage at Night as Maid at Kyoto Inn
1956
- The Mandarin Room as Namiko
1942
- Currents of Youth as Girl in a tea room
- Sky of Hope as Toshiko