Portrait of Daisuke Katō

Daisuke Katō

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.

Born: February 18, 1911

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Filmography

1974
1970
Five Gents and a Kuniang

as Ishibashi Tetsukichi

1970
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

as Tetsukichi Ishibashi

1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)

1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)

1968
Admiral Yamamoto

as Chief of Press Section

1968
1968
Gamblers: The Raid

as Kichigorō

1968
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)

1968
Ryoma ga Yuku

as Katsu Kaishu

1967
Two in the Shadow

as Hayashida

1967
Japan's Longest Day

as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

1967
1967
Five Gents Prefer Geisha

as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

1967
Tabiji

as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎

1967
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents

as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

1966
Rise Against the Sword

as Budeuemon Hattori

1966
Assignment Cloud

as Kusanagi

1966
The School of Spies

as Lieutenant Kusanagi

1966
Moment of Terror

as Kawashima

1966
1966
A Company President's Life Story

as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)

1965
Stairs of Evil

as Konishi

1965
Sanshiro Sugata

as Hansuke Murai

1965
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)

1964
Superexpress

as Yukichi Nakae

1964
The Naked Executive

as Tadokori - Executive

1964
Hail the 3 Gents

as Tomioka (Sales Manager)

1963
We Are Salarymen

as Executive Motohashi

1963
Miren

as Master at 'Sekine'

1963
Company President Travels Abroad Part II

as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)

1963
Company President Travels Abroad

as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)

1963
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)

1963
Devices Stronger Than Women

as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)

1962
An Autumn Afternoon

as Yoshitaro Sakamoto

1962
Chûshingura

as Kichiemon Terasaka

1962
A Wanderer's Notebook

as Nobuo Sadaoka

1962
Star of Hong Kong

as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law

1962
The Wiser Age

as Ryokichi

1961
The End of Summer

as Kitagawa Yanosuke

1961
A Night in Hong Kong

as Kenkichi Matsuyama

1961
Playboy President: Part II

as Zensuke Kuramochi

1961
Yojimbo

as Inokichi

1961
Playboy President

as Kuramochi Zensuke

1960
The Masterless 47

as Jyusaburo Onodera

1960
Singing in the Sun

as Kyosuke Tsumura

1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother

as Shusuke Tetsumoto

1960
1960
Hito mo arukeba

as Namitaro Namiki

1960
Beyond the Hills

as Yakichi Wada

1960
1960
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)

1959
The Terrible Game

as Uncle Zenkichi

1959
Young Lovers

as Renzō Dōjima

1959
New Third-Class Executive

as Kumahira Onizuka

1959
The College Ruggers

as Jirō Shimizu

1959
Fox and Raccoon

as Kyota Aoshima

1958
Bright Young Maidens

as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father

1958
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

as Kikuzō (head clerk)

1958
Oban kanketsu hen

as Ushinotsuke Akabane

1958
1958
Yaji and Kita on the Road

as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya

1957
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

as Ushinotsuke Akabane

1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Ushinosuke Akaba

1957
Untamed Woman

as Onoda, the second husband

1957
Snow Country

as Inn proprietor

1957
Ôban

as Ushinosuke Akaba

1957
Itohan Monogatari

as Matsukichi

1956
Flowing

as Yoneko's Ex

1956
Street of Shame

as Mr. Nomura

1956
Early Spring

as Sakamoto

1956
Sudden Rain

as Kawakami

1955
1955
1955
1955
A Woman's Life

as police officer

1955
Floating Clouds

as Seikichi Mukai

1955
Foul Play

as Goro Seo

1954
The Surf

as Chiyoko's Father

1954
All of Myself

as Oda Jukichi

1954
Seven Samurai

as Shichiroji

1953
1953
An Edoite Judge

as Tasuke Uoya

1952
恐妻時代

as Nakahata

1952
Ikiru

as Yakuza

1952
Shanghai Rose

as Liu, Ding's men

1952
Mother

as Sokichi Kimura

1952
The Life of Oharu

as Tasaburo Hishiya

1951
The Bitch

as Gorō Matoba

1950
Rashomon

as Policeman

1950
The Motherland Far Far Away

as Tommy Shôkyokusai

1941
The 47 Ronin

as Fuwa Kazuemon

1936