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.

KNOWN FOR

Howl's Moving Castle
2004
Kimi no na wa
1991
Furuhata Ninzaburo
1996
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
Time Limit Investigator
2007
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
A Thousand and One Nights
1969
Veterinarian Dolittle
2010
Yumechiyo Nikki
1981
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
1978
Marriage Begins With A Lie
1993
Ashura no Gotoku
1979

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
94
2011
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2010
About Her Brother
as Takano Kinuo
2010
Veterinarian Dolittle
2009
It's On Me
2008
Chameleon
as Noriko Yamamura
2007
Awakening
as Shigeko Miyasato
2007
Time Limit Investigator
2004
Blooming Again
as Sadako Tōyama
2004
Howl's Moving Castle
as Madame Suliman (voice)
2004
The Crying Wind
as Shiho Fujino
2003
Spy Sorge
2003
Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
as Takako
2003
Life Is Journey
2001
Pistol Opera
as Shizuka Orikuchi
1998
Bonds
as Mrs. Soga
1997
Body and Soul
as Ryosuke's mother
1996
Furuhata Ninzaburo
as Takayo Sasaki
1995
Secret Liaisons
1995
A Brief Message from the Heart
1995
Sharaku
as Ofuji
1995
Kura
1993
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993
Marriage Begins With A Lie
as Arishima Tsuneko
1991
Ghost Story: Flower House
1991
Kimi no na wa
as 浜口徳枝
1990
Tasmania Story
1989
Kiki's Delivery Service
as Old Lady (voice)
1989
The Dancer
1989
Kaze no Sumu Ie
1988
A Taxing Woman's Return
as Kinu Akabane
1988
Onna no Naka no Kaze
1988
Kizu
1988
Umi e, See You
as Eiji’s mother
1988
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1987
Tokyo Blackout
as Umeko Koide
1987
The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
1987
Carefree Goddesses
1987
森繁久彌の七人の孫
1986
Gonza the Spearman
as Oyuki's nanny
1986
Beyond the Shining Sea
as Tomie Kawamura
1986
The House of Wedlock
as Kuniko Sakazaki
1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Grandmother
1985
Gray Sunset
as Kikuyo Takano
1985
Capone Cries a Lot
as Wife
1985
Caribe: Symphony of Love
as Fumiko Sawaki
1984
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
as Shizu Nagayama
1984
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Otae-san
1983
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1981
The Wild Daisy
as Kiku Saito
1981
Something Like It
1981
芭蕉布を織る女たち
as Narrator (voice)
1981
Yumechiyo Nikki
1980
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
突然の明日
1979
Ashura no Gotoku
1978
Kyukei no Koya
as Takako Nogami
1978
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
as Shuzuko dojima
1977
Seasonal Wind
1977
Love in the Mud
1977
Sweet Revenge
as Yoshiko Otsuka
1977
Fuyu no Undokai
1976
Hobo General
1976
Love Is a Hunter
as Keiko Asada
1974
Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
1972
Sword and Flower
1972
First Love
1971
Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
as Aunt
1971
The Gambling Nun
1971
なんたって18歳！
1969
A Thousand and One Nights
as Genie (voice)
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
1968
East China Sea
as Rokurō's mother
1968
若い川の流れ
1967
春日和
1966
Young Girls Are Everywhere
as Muneko Eda
1964
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
as Shizue Funada
1964
Green Fruit
1964
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964
Camellia Gate
1962
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1959
Pilgrimage at Night
as Maid at Kyoto Inn
1956
The Mandarin Room
as Namiko
1955
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1951
The Love Letter Trial
1942
Sky of Hope
as Toshiko
1942
Currents of Youth
as Girl in a tea room
1941
Life Begins at 61
1940
Wedding Day
1940
Enoken Enters the Ring
1940
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
as Teruko
1939
Flower Picking Diary
1939
Enoken's Yaji and Kita