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
- Morning for Two
- 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
1970
- Five Gents and a Kuniang as Ishibashi Tetsukichi
- Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Tetsukichi Ishibashi
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
- Ryoma ga Yuku as Katsu Kaishu
- Admiral Yamamoto as Chief of Press Section
- Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant as Tsutomu Ariga
- 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
- 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
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- Assignment Dragon No. 3 as Kusanagi
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- Our Silent Love
- Secret Assignment as Kusanagi
- Zoku izuko e
- Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri as Gunpei Otaguro
- The Bogus Policeman
1966
- The Stranger Within a Woman
- Moment of Terror as Kawashima
- A Company President's Life Story as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
- The School of Spies as Lieutenant Kusanagi
- Five Gents on the Spot as Kanju Goto
- Rise Against the Sword as Budeuemon Hattori
- The Daphne
- Once a Rainy Day
- Assignment Cloud as Kusanagi
1965
- Finances in Front of the Train Station
- Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai
- A Chair in the Sunshine
- We Will Remember
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- Stairs of Evil as Konishi
- The Radish and the Carrot
1964
- The Naked Executive as Tadokori - Executive
- The Sharks
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- Hail the 3 Gents as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
- Nippon Paradise
- Superexpress as Yukichi Nakae
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins as 4th Sin & 7th Sin
- I'm a Bodyguard
- How to Make Money
1963
- A Salaryman's Reckless Family
- A Woman's Life as Tobita
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
- Aloha 3 Gents as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
- 3 Gents In Hawaii as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
- Miren as Master at 'Sekine'
- Crazy Operation: First Move
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- We Are Salarymen as Executive Motohashi
- Nonsense Boys
1962
- Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- An Autumn Afternoon as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
- Chûshingura as Kichiemon Terasaka
- A Wanderer's Notebook as Nobuo Sadaoka
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- Star of Hong Kong as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
- Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
- Ottamage ningyo monogatari
- The Wiser Age as Ryokichi
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- Born in Sin
- Pachinko
1961
- Yojimbo as Inokichi
- The End of Summer as Kitagawa Yanosuke
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- A Night in Hong Kong as Kenkichi Matsuyama
- Ganpā kachō
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Playboy President as Kuramochi Zensuke
- Snow in the South Seas
- The Preacher of Love
- Playboy President: Part II as Zensuke Kuramochi
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- Awamori-kun kanpai!
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Matsukichi Sekine
- Modern Moneymaking
- Count on Me
- The Five Jolly Thieves
- The Happicoat Comedian
- Yoru wa usotsuki
- Hito mo arukeba as Namitaro Namiki
- The Approach of Autumn as Tomioka
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Shusuke Tetsumoto
- The Masterless 47 as Jyusaburo Onodera
- The Gambling Samurai as Enzo Niko
- The Husband Was a Baby
- New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Uchuu Takeda
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
- Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Okubo Hikosaburō
- Older Wife, Younger Husband
- New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Kumakichi Onizuka
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Ōkubo Hikosaburō
- Beyond the Hills as Yakichi Wada
- Respect, Flatter, and Love
- This Greedy Old Skin
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Jiyūgaoka fujin
- Singing in the Sun as Kyosuke Tsumura
1959
- Violent Ishimatsu
- Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Takeuchi
- The Spear Master
- Fox and Raccoon as Kyota Aoshima
- New Third-Class Executive as Kumahira Onizuka
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- The College Ruggers as Jirō Shimizu
- Samurai in the Office
- Kiri aru jyoji
- Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
- The Terrible Game as Uncle Zenkichi
- Young Lovers as Renzō Dōjima
1958
- Little Peach as Suga
- Summer Clouds
- Yaji and Kita on the Road as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
- The Third President
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Assistant President
- The Naked General
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Kikuzō (head clerk)
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Oban kanketsu hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- A Bridge for Two Alone
- Bright Young Maidens as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Hajime Sawada
1957
- Snow Country as Inn proprietor
- Untamed Woman as Onoda, the second husband
- The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Itohan Monogatari as Matsukichi
- Ôban as Ushinosuke Akaba
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Ushinotsuke Akabane
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Sōda Hajime
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Sōda Hajime
- Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
1956
- 8:13 PM
- Sabakareru jūdai
- Spark
- Street of Shame as Mr. Nomura
- Early Spring as Sakamoto
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Toji Gion
- Easy-Going Married Couple
- Flowing as Yoneko's Ex
- Pure Love
- Sudden Rain as Kawakami
- A Wife's Heart
- Gendai no yokubô
- A Brother and His Sister as Hayashi
- The Lady Was Pawn
- The Storm
- Outlaw island
- Will-o'-the-Wisp
- Samurai of the Great Earth
- Fountainhead
- Dotanba
- Swordsman of the Two Sword Style as Kamo Jinnai
- The Spoiled Brat President
1955
- Twilight Saloon as Kibe
- Tsubakuro kasa
- 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
- No Time for Tears
- Mune yori mune ni as Hazama
- Here Is a Spring
- Tôjûrô no koi as Kichisuke
- A Woman's Life as police officer
- Foul Play as Goro Seo
- Gojūen yokochō
- The Romance of Yushima
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- The Lone Journey
1954
- Seven Samurai as Shichiroji
- Mashiroki Fuji no mine
- Yearning
- Four Mothers
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Toji
- Husband on the Run
- Brotherly Love
- Late Chrysanthemums as Itaya
- Mother's First Love
- The Surf as Chiyoko's Father
- Turbid Youth
- Mako Osorubeshi
- 爆笑天国 とんち教室
- All of Myself as Oda Jukichi
1953
1952
- Ikiru as Yakuza
- The Life of Oharu as Tasaburo Hishiya
- Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- Castle of Carnage
- Mother as Sokichi Kimura
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- 恐妻時代 as Nakahata
- Sanmanryō gojūsantsugi
- Forty-Eight Man
- Shanghai Rose as Liu, Ding's men
- Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
1951
- Tsuki no wataridori
- Freedom School
- The Tale of Genji
- The Bitch as Gorō Matoba
- The Inner Palace Conspiracy as Tajimi
- Jushu karasu
- A Spectacular Murder
- The Killing of Otsuya as Mita
1950
1949
1941
- The 47 Ronin as Fuwa Kazuemon
1938
1936
- Priest of Darkness as Kenta