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
1995
- Snow falls on a southern island ... (Writer)
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
- Gamblers: The Raid as Kichigorō
- Five Gents and Karate Grandpa as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
- The Night before Pearl Harbor as Kusanagi
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Tsutomu Ariga
- Lemon in the Rainbow as Gôzô Maeda
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
- Zoku izuko e
- Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri as Gunpei Otaguro
- Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Kusanagi
- The Bogus Policeman
- Our Silent Love
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- Secret Assignment as Kusanagi
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
1966
- The Stranger Within a Woman
- Moment of Terror as Kawashima
- The School of Spies as Lieutenant Kusanagi
- Rise Against the Sword as Budeuemon Hattori
- Once a Rainy Day
- A Company President's Life Story as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
- Five Gents on the Spot as Kanju Goto
- Assignment Cloud as Kusanagi
- The Daphne
1965
- Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai
- We Will Remember
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Stairs of Evil as Konishi
1964
- The Naked Executive as Tadokori - Executive
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 4th Sin & 7th Sin
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- I'm a Bodyguard
- The Sharks
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Hail the 3 Gents as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
- How to Make Money
- Superexpress as Yukichi Nakae
- Nippon Paradise
1963
- A Woman's Life as Tobita
- Crazy Operation: First Move
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
- Aloha 3 Gents as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- 3 Gents In Hawaii as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
- Nonsense Boys
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
- Miren as Master at 'Sekine'
- We Are Salarymen as Executive Motohashi
- A Salaryman's Reckless Family
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
- Chûshingura as Kichiemon Terasaka
- A Wanderer's Notebook as Nobuo Sadaoka
- The Wiser Age as Ryokichi
- Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- Star of Hong Kong as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- Born in Sin
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Pachinko
- Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1961
- Yojimbo as Inokichi
- The End of Summer as Kitagawa Yanosuke
- Playboy President: Part II as Zensuke Kuramochi
- Snow in the South Seas
- The Preacher of Love
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- A Night in Hong Kong as Kenkichi Matsuyama
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- Awamori-kun kanpai!
- Playboy President as Kuramochi Zensuke
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- Ganpā kachō
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Matsukichi Sekine
- Hito mo arukeba as Namitaro Namiki
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Shusuke Tetsumoto
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
- The Approach of Autumn as Tomioka
- The Gambling Samurai as Enzo Niko
- New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Kumakichi Onizuka
- The Masterless 47 as Jyusaburo Onodera
- Jiyūgaoka fujin
- Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Okubo Hikosaburō
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- This Greedy Old Skin
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Ōkubo Hikosaburō
- Beyond the Hills as Yakichi Wada
- New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Uchuu Takeda
- Older Wife, Younger Husband
- The Husband Was a Baby
- Yoru wa usotsuki
- Singing in the Sun as Kyosuke Tsumura
1959
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Takeuchi
- Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
- Fox and Raccoon as Kyota Aoshima
- The Terrible Game as Uncle Zenkichi
- Samurai in the Office
- New Third-Class Executive as Kumahira Onizuka
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- Young Lovers as Renzō Dōjima
- Kiri aru jyoji
- The College Ruggers as Jirō Shimizu
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
1958
- The Naked General
- Little Peach as Suga
- Summer Clouds
- Oban kanketsu hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kikuzō (head clerk)
- Holiday in Tokyo
- A Bridge for Two Alone
- The Third President
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hajime Sawada
- Assistant President
- Bright Young Maidens as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
1957
- Untamed Woman as Onoda, the second husband
- Snow Country as Inn proprietor
- Ôban as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Itohan Monogatari as Matsukichi
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Sōda Hajime
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Sōda Hajime
1956
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Toji Gion
- Early Spring as Sakamoto
- Street of Shame as Mr. Nomura
- A Wife's Heart
- Flowing as Yoneko's Ex
- Pure Love
- Sudden Rain as Kawakami
- Gendai no yokubô
- Swordsman of the Two Sword Style as Kamo Jinnai
- Fountainhead
- Samurai of the Great Earth
- The Lady Was Pawn
- A Brother and His Sister as Hayashi
- Outlaw island
- Will-o'-the-Wisp
- Dotanba
- Dadakko Shachou
- The Storm
1955
- Floating Clouds as Seikichi Mukai
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Toji Gion
- Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji as Genta
- Ejima and Ikushima as 井口
- Twilight Saloon as Kibe
- No Time for Tears
- 五十円横町
- The Romance of Yushima
- Here Is a Spring
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- Foul Play as Goro Seo
- The Lone Journey
- A Woman's Life as police officer
- Tôjûrô no koi as Kichisuke
- Mune yori mune ni as Hazama
1954
- Seven Samurai as Shichiroji
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Toji
- Mako Osorubeshi
- Late Chrysanthemums as Itaya
- Brotherly Love
- The Surf as Chiyoko's Father
- Turbid Youth
- 爆笑天国 とんち教室
- Husband on the Run
- All of Myself as Oda Jukichi
- Mother's First Love
1953
1952
- Ikiru as Yakuza
- The Life of Oharu as Tasaburo Hishiya
- Castle of Carnage
- Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- Mother as Sokichi Kimura
- 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
- Sanmanryō gojūsantsugi
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
1951
- Freedom School
- Tsuki no wataridori
- The Tale of Genji
- The Killing of Otsuya as Mita
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Tajimi
- A Spectacular Murder
- Jushu karasu
- The Bitch as Gorō Matoba
1950
1949
1941
- The 47 Ronin as Fuwa Kazuemon
1938
1936
- Priest of Darkness as Kenta