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.

Filmography

• 2009Free and Easy 20: Final
• 2008You'll Die Six Hours Later
• 2007Free and Easy 18
• 2006Aogeba Tôtoshi — Koichi's father
• 2006Free and Easy 17
• 2006Japan Sinks — Professor Yamashiro
• 2006Murder of the Inugami Clan — Todoroki Shochô
• 2005Free and Easy 16 — Akiyama
• 2004Free and Easy 15
• 2004Tracing Jake
• 2002Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space — Zombie Cat (Voice)
• 2001Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project — Managing Director Akiyama
• 2001Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
• 2001Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
• 2001Run Ichiro Run
• 2000Dora-heita — Toneri Uchijima
• 1999Across a Gold Prairie — Takashi Kanzaki
• 1999The Geisha House — Kitayama
• 1998Free and Easy 10
• 1998Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
• 1996Free and Easy 8
• 1996The 8-Tomb Village
• 1994Free and Easy 7
• 1994Free and Easy Special
• 1993Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
• 1993Free and Easy 6
• 1993Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
• 1993XX: Beautiful Weapon — Yasuhiro Kokubu
• 1992Free and Easy 5
• 1991Free and Easy 4 — Akiyama
• Kimi no na wa — 永橋
• 1991Noh Mask Murders — Assistant Inspector Senba
• 1991The Great Shogunate Battle
• The Tale of Genji
• 1990Battleship Yamato — General Koshirō Oikawa
• 1989Company Executives
• 1989Four Days of Snow and Blood — Kohei Kashi
• 1989Virgin Road
• Hana no Asuka-gumi! — Shinomiya
• 1987Crybaby Chacha
• Iki no Iiyatsu
• 1985Godzilla 1985 — Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
• 1985Odin: Starlight Mutiny — Takeshi Suzuka
• 1985Ran — Koyota Hatakeyama
• 1985Yume-Chiyo
• Choudenshi Bioman — Takashi
• 1984For Kayako — Kyusu Im
• 1984Location — Hara
• 1984Marriage Counselor Tora-san — 金吾
• 1984Watashi no naka no shōfu — Fisherman A
• 1984Zero — Ugaki
• 1983Children of Nagasaki
• 1983Dansen
• Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series — Kahei Nirei
• Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
• 1983The Fir Trees Remain
• 1983The Politicians
• 1983Voice from the Dark — Toyokichi Kuze
• 1982Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp — Grand Wazir (voice)
• 1982Fossilized Wilderness
• 1981Flame of Father and Son
• 1981Hamuretto wa yukue fumei
• 1981Lonely Heart
• 1980Koto: The Ancient City
• Natchan no shashinkan — 父・西城賢輔
• 1980The First Catch
• 1979The House of Hanging — Inspector Todoroki
• 1978Love and Faith
• 1978Queen Bee — Detective Todoroki
• 1978The Phoenix — Kamamushi
• 1977Island of Hell — Inspector Todoroki
• 1977Lullaby to Kill — Inspector Tachibana
• 1976The Inugami Family — Police Chief Tachibana
• 1976The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
• 1975The Gate of Youth
• なつかしき海の歌
• 1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics — Noburo Uchimoto
• 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity — Noburo Uchimoto
• 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War — Noboru Uchimoto
• 1973Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro — Kikutarō Yamada
• 1973Miyamoto Musashi — Iwama Kakubei
• 1972Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
• 1972Summer Soldiers — Driver
• 1972The Class of the Sewage Canal
• 1972The Pirates of Buban
• 1971300 Million Yen Mission
• 1971Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
• 1971Love for Eternity
• 1970The Summit of Mt. Fuji
• 1970Zenigeba
• 1969Battle of the Japan Sea — Chief of Staff Officer Kato
• 1969Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
• 1969The Girl I Abandoned
• 1968Kawachi fūten zoku
• 1968The Neon Taiheiki
• 1968The Sands of Kurobe — Kunikida
• 1968Trigger-Happy
• 1967Japan's Longest Day — Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
• 1967Scorpion
• 1966Fighting Elegy
• 1966Kill or Be Killed
• 1966Moment of Terror
• 1966The Great White Tower — Professor Nozaka
• 1965House of Terrors — Keisuke Munakata
• 1965New Treasure Island — Long John Silver (voice)
• 1965None But the Brave — Sgt. Tamura
• 1965Sword of the Beast — Katori
• 1965Tale of Japanese Burglars — Public prosecutor Tamura
• 1965The Last Judgment
• 1965Three Yakuza
• 1965Zatoichi's Revenge — Koheita Kadokura
• Akō Rōshi — Horibe Yasubee
• 1964Monrō no yōna onna
• 1964Night Scandal in Japan
• 1964Only on Mondays — Yuka's sugar-daddy
• 1964The Spying Sorceress
• 1964Two Lives, Two Yakuza — Makoto Misugi
• 1964Whirlpool of Flesh — Segawa
• 1963Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
• 1963Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
• 1963High and Low — Detective Nakao
• 1963I Fly for Kicks — Ginzo Iwamoto
• Life of a Flower — Kaneko Magojiro
• 1963Mother — Toshiro
• 1963The Gambling Monk
• 1963The Navy
• 1963午前零時の出獄
• 1962A Wanderer's Notebook — Uenoyama
• 1962Foundry Town — Mr. Noda
• 1962Kimagure tosei
• 1962Last Round
• 1962Let's Meet in Our Dreams
• 1962Ninja, A Band of Assassins
• 1962Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
• 1962The Lucky General
• 1962This Madding Crowd
• 1961Eternity of Love
• 1961Gambler in the Sea
• 1961Gun of Nosappu
• 1961Happiness of Us Alone
• 1961Lost in the Sun
• 1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
• 1961Pigs and Battleships — Ohachi
• 1961Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
• 1961The Crimson Plains — Koike
• 1961Yojimbo — Ronin Kobuhachi
• 1961Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
• 1960The Bad Sleep Well — Itakura
• 1960Volunteering for Villainy — Deka
• 1959High Teen
• 1959Room for Let
• 1958Endless Desire — Brutal yakuza
• 1958The Hidden Fortress — Samurai (uncredited)
• 1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era — Narrator (uncredited)
• 1957Throne of Blood — Guard killed by Washizu
• 1956The Thick-Walled Room
• 1955Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
• 1954How the Bell of Liberty Rings — Ronin on the ship
• 1954Seven Samurai — Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
• 1953An Inlet of Muddy Water
• 愛のホットライン

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai — Self - Actor
• 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' — Self
• 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' — Self
• 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' — Self
• 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' — Self