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