Takeshi Katō (加藤 武 Katō Takeshi, 24 May 1929 – 31 July 2015) was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

KNOWN FOR

Kimi no na wa
1991
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
1990
Seven Samurai
1954
Ran
1985
High and Low
1963
Natchan no shashinkan
1980
Choudenshi Bioman
1984
Hana no Asuka-gumi!
1988
Throne of Blood
1957
Yojimbo
1961
Akō Rōshi
1964
Life of a Flower
1963

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
166
2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actor
2009
Free and Easy 20: Final
2008
You'll Die Six Hours Later
2007
Free and Easy 18
2006
Aogeba Tôtoshi
as Koichi's father
2006
Murder of the Inugami Clan
as Todoroki Shochô
2006
Japan Sinks
as Professor Yamashiro
2006
Free and Easy 17
2005
Free and Easy 16
as Akiyama
2004
Tracing Jake
2004
Free and Easy 15
2002
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
as Zombie Cat (Voice)
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
as Self
2001
Run Ichiro Run
2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Managing Director Akiyama
2001
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
2000
Dora-heita
as Toneri Uchijima
1999
Across a Gold Prairie
as Takashi Kanzaki
1999
The Geisha House
as Kitayama
1998
Free and Easy 10
1998
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1996
Free and Easy 8
1996
The 8-Tomb Village
1994
Free and Easy Special
1994
Free and Easy 7
1993
XX: Beautiful Weapon
as Yasuhiro Kokubu
1993
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
1993
Free and Easy 6
1993
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
1992
Free and Easy 5
1991
Free and Easy 4
as Akiyama
1991
Noh Mask Murders
as Assistant Inspector Senba
1991
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
Kimi no na wa
as 永橋
1991
The Tale of Genji
1990
Battleship Yamato
as General Koshirō Oikawa
1990
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
as Kahei Nirei
1989
Company Executives
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Kohei Kashi
1989
Virgin Road
1988
Hana no Asuka-gumi!
as Shinomiya
1987
Crybaby Chacha
1987
Iki no Iiyatsu
1985
Ran
as Koyota Hatakeyama
1985
Odin: Starlight Mutiny
as Takeshi Suzuka
1985
Yume-Chiyo
1985
Godzilla 1985
as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
1984
Watashi no naka no shōfu
as Fisherman A
1984
For Kayako
as Kyusu Im
1984
Location
as Hara
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as 金吾
1984
Zero
as Ugaki
1984
Choudenshi Bioman
as Takashi
1983
Children of Nagasaki
1983
The Fir Trees Remain
1983
Dansen
1983
Voice from the Dark
as Toyokichi Kuze
1983
The Politicians
1983
Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
1982
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
as Grand Wazir (voice)
1981
Flame of Father and Son
1981
Lonely Heart
1981
Hamuretto wa yukue fumei
1981
愛のホットライン
1980
The First Catch
1980
Koto: The Ancient City
1980
Natchan no shashinkan
as 父・西城賢輔
1979
The House of Hanging
as Inspector Todoroki
1978
The Phoenix
as Kamamushi
1978
Queen Bee
as Detective Todoroki
1978
Love and Faith
1977
Lullaby to Kill
as Inspector Tachibana
1977
Island of Hell
as Inspector Todoroki
1976
The Inugami Family
as Police Chief Tachibana
1976
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1975
The Gate of Youth
1975
なつかしき海の歌
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Noburo Uchimoto
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Noboru Uchimoto
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Noburo Uchimoto
1973
Miyamoto Musashi
as Iwama Kakubei
1973
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
as Kikutarō Yamada
1972
The Class of the Sewage Canal
1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972
Summer Soldiers
as Driver
1972
The Pirates of Buban
1971
Love for Eternity
1971
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1971
300 Million Yen Mission
1970
Zenigeba
1970
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1969
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
as Chief of Staff Officer Kato
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
1968
The Neon Taiheiki
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
as Kunikida
1968
Kawachi fūten zoku
1968
Trigger-Happy
1967
Scorpion
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
1966
Kill or Be Killed
1966
Fighting Elegy
1966
The Great White Tower
as Professor Nozaka
1966
Moment of Terror
1965
New Treasure Island
as Long John Silver (voice)
1965
None But the Brave
as Sgt. Tamura
1965
Zatoichi's Revenge
as Koheita Kadokura
1965
Three Yakuza
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Public prosecutor Tamura
1965
The Last Judgment
1965
Sword of the Beast
as Katori
1965
House of Terrors
as Keisuke Munakata
1964
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Makoto Misugi
1964
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's sugar-daddy
1964
Night Scandal in Japan
1964
Whirlpool of Flesh
as Segawa
1964
The Spying Sorceress
1964
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
Akō Rōshi
as Horibe Yasubee
1963
High and Low
as Detective Nakao
1963
Mother
as Toshiro
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
The Gambling Monk
1963
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963
The Navy
1963
午前零時の出獄
1963
I Fly for Kicks
as Ginzo Iwamoto
1963
Life of a Flower
as Kaneko Magojiro
1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
The Lucky General
1962
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962
Kimagure tosei
1962
Foundry Town
as Mr. Noda
1962
Last Round
1962
Let's Meet in Our Dreams
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
as Uenoyama
1962
This Madding Crowd
1961
Pigs and Battleships
as Ohachi
1961
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
1961
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
The Crimson Plains
as Koike
1961
Yojimbo
as Ronin Kobuhachi
1961
Lost in the Sun
1961
Happiness of Us Alone
1961
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961
Eternity of Love
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
as Itakura
1960
Volunteering for Villainy
as Deka
1959
Room for Let
1959
High Teen
1958
The Hidden Fortress
as Samurai (uncredited)
1958
Endless Desire
as Brutal yakuza
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Narrator (uncredited)
1957
Throne of Blood
as Guard killed by Washizu
1956
The Thick-Walled Room
1955
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1954
Seven Samurai
as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
1954
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
as Ronin on the ship
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water