Daisuke Katō
Born: 1911-02-18 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1975-07-31
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1974
- Center of Tokyo as Zenzo
1972
1971
- Morning for Two
- First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff as Kintaro Igari
- First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri as Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.
1970
- Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Tetsukichi Ishibashi
- Five Gents and a Kuniang as Ishibashi Tetsukichi
1969
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
- 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as Chief of Press Section
- Ryoma ga Yuku as Katsu Kaishu
- The Night before Pearl Harbor as Kusanagi
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Tsutomu Ariga
- Rose Buds in the Rainbow as Gôzô Maeda
- Gamblers: The Raid as Kichigorō
1967
- Tabiji as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎
- Japan's Longest Day as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
- Two in the Shadow as Hayashida
- Secret Assignment as Kusanagi
- Zoku izuko e
- Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Kusanagi
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- The Bogus Policeman
- Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri as Gunpei Otaguro
1966
- The Stranger Within a Woman
- Once a Rainy Day
- The School of Spies as Lieutenant Kusanagi
- Assignment Cloud as Kusanagi
- Moment of Terror as Kawashima
- A Company President's Life Story as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
- Rise Against the Sword as Budeuemon Hattori
- Five Gents on the Spot as Kanju Goto
- The Daphne
1965
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
- Stairs of Evil as Konishi
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- We Will Remember
1964
- Superexpress as Yukichi Nakae
- Hail the 3 Gents as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- The Naked Executive as Tadokori - Executive
- I'm a Bodyguard
- The Sharks
- How to Make Money
- Nippon Paradise
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 4th Sin & 7th Sin
1963
- A Woman's Life
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
- Company President Travels Abroad as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
- Company President Travels Abroad Part II as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
- Nonsense Boys
- Crazy Operation: First Move
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- Miren as Master at 'Sekine'
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
- We Are Salarymen as Executive Motohashi
1962
- Chûshingura as Kichiemon Terasaka
- An Autumn Afternoon as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
- A Wanderer's Notebook as Nobuo Sadaoka
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- Born in Sin
- Star of Hong Kong as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- The Wiser Age as Ryokichi
- Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- Pachinko
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
- Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1961
- Yojimbo as Inokichi
- The End of Summer as Kitagawa Yanosuke
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Snow in the South Seas
- The Preacher of Love
- Playboy President: Part II as Zensuke Kuramochi
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- Playboy President as Kuramochi Zensuke
- Awamori-kun kanpai!
- A Night in Hong Kong as Kenkichi Matsuyama
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Matsukichi Sekine
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Shusuke Tetsumoto
- New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Kumakichi Onizuka
- The Approach of Autumn as Tomioka
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
- This Greedy Old Skin
- Beyond the Hills as Yakichi Wada
- The Masterless 47 as Jyusaburo Onodera
- New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Uchuu Takeda
- The Gambling Samurai as Enzo Niko
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Ōkubo Hikosaburō
- Jiyūgaoka fujin
- Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Okubo Hikosaburō
- Hito mo arukeba as Namitaro Namiki
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- Singing in the Sun as Kyosuke Tsumura
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
- The Husband Was a Baby
- Older Wife, Younger Husband
1959
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- New Third-Class Executive as Kumahira Onizuka
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- The Terrible Game as Uncle Zenkichi
- Fox and Raccoon as Kyota Aoshima
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Takeuchi
- Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
- Young Lovers as Renzō Dōjima
- Kiri aru jyoji
- The College Ruggers as Jirō Shimizu
- Samurai in the Office
1958
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Summer Clouds
- Little Peach as Suga
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Oban kanketsu hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- The Third President
- Assistant President
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
- A Bridge for Two Alone
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kikuzō (head clerk)
- Bright Young Maidens as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
- The Naked General
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hajime Sawada
1957
- Untamed Woman as Onoda, the second husband
- Snow Country as Inn proprietor
- Ôban as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Itohan Monogatari as Matsukichi
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Sōda Hajime
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Sōda Hajime
1956
- Early Spring as Sakamoto
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Toji Gion
- Street of Shame as Mr. Nomura
- A Wife's Heart
- Fountainhead
- Flowing as Yoneko's Ex
- Sudden Rain as Kawakami
- Samurai of the Great Earth
- Dotanba
- The Storm
- Outlaw island
- Will-o'-the-Wisp
- Swordsman of the Two Sword Style as Kamo Jinnai
- A Brother and His Sister as Hayashi
- Gendai no yokubô
- Pure Love
- Dadakko Shachou
- The Lady Was Pawn
1955
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Toji Gion
- Floating Clouds as Seikichi Mukai
- Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji as Genta
- A Woman's Life as police officer
- Here Is a Spring
- The Lone Journey
- Twilight Saloon as Kibe
- Mune yori mune ni as Hazama
- No Time for Tears
- The Romance of Yushima
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- Foul Play as Goro Seo
- 五十円横町
- Ejima and Ikushima as 井口
1954
- Seven Samurai as Shichiroji
- Late Chrysanthemums as Itaya
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Toji
- Mother's First Love
- The Surf as Chiyoko's Father
- Turbid Youth
- All of Myself as Oda Jukichi
- Mako Osorubeshi
- 爆笑天国 とんち教室
1953
1952
- Ikiru as Yakuza
- Mother as Sokichi Kimura
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- The Life of Oharu as Tasaburo Hishiya
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- Forty-Eight Man
- 恐妻時代 as Nakahata
- Shanghai Rose as Liu, Ding's men
- 三万両五十三次
- Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
- One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1951
- The Tale of Genji
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Tajimi
- The Killing of Otsuya as Mita
- The Bitch as Gorō Matoba
- 上州鴉
- A Spectacular Murder
1950
- Rashomon as Policeman
- Ore wa yōjimbō
- G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
- The Motherland Far Far Away as Tommy Shôkyokusai
- A Man from Akagi
1949
1948
1941
- The 47 Ronin as Fuwa Kazuemon
1938
1936
- Priest of Darkness as Kenta