Daisuke Katō
Acting · Writing
Born February 18, 1911, Tokyo, Japan
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
- 1995Snow falls on a southern island — Writer
- 1974Center of Tokyo — Zenzo
- 1972First Love
- 1971First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri — Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.
- 1971First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff — Kintaro Igari
- 1971Morning for Two
- 1970Five Gents Fly to Taiwan — Tetsukichi Ishibashi
- 1970Five Gents and a Kuniang — Ishibashi Tetsukichi
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu — Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II — Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
- 1968Admiral Yamamoto — Chief of Press Section
- 1968Five Gents and Karate Grandpa — Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
- 1968Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant — Tsutomu Ariga
- 1968Gamblers: The Raid — Kichigorō
- 1968Lemon in the Rainbow — Gôzô Maeda
- Ryoma ga Yuku — Katsu Kaishu
- 1968The Night before Pearl Harbor — Kusanagi
- 1967Assignment Dragon No. 3 — Kusanagi
- 1967Discover Japan with the 5 Gents — Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- 1967Five Gents Prefer Geisha — Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
- 1967Japan's Longest Day — Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
- 1967Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri — Gunpei Otaguro
- 1967Our Silent Love
- 1967Secret Assignment — Kusanagi
- Tabiji — 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎
- 1967The Bogus Policeman
- 1967The Greatest Challenge of All
- 1967Two in the Shadow — Hayashida
- 1967Zoku izuko e
- 1966A Company President's Life Story — Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
- 1966Assignment Cloud — Kusanagi
- 1966Five Gents on the Spot — Kanju Goto
- 1966Moment of Terror — Kawashima
- 1966Once a Rainy Day
- 1966Rise Against the Sword — Budeuemon Hattori
- 1966The Daphne
- 1966The School of Spies — Lieutenant Kusanagi
- 1966The Stranger Within a Woman
- 1965A Chair in the Sunshine
- 1965Finances in Front of the Train Station
- 1965Five Gents' Trick Book
- 1965President's Ninja Trick Book Part II — Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
- 1965Sanshiro Sugata — Hansuke Murai
- 1965Stairs of Evil — Konishi
- 1965The Radish and the Carrot
- 1965We Will Remember
- 19643 Gents in the Snow Country
- 1964Hail the 3 Gents — Tomioka (Sales Manager)
- 1964Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins — 4th Sin & 7th Sin
- 1964How to Make Money
- 1964I'm a Bodyguard
- 1964Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- 1964Nippon Paradise
- 1964Superexpress — Yukichi Nakae
- 1964The Naked Executive — Tadokori - Executive
- 1964The Sharks
- 19633 Gents In Hawaii — Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
- 1963A Salaryman's Reckless Family
- 1963A Woman's Life — Tobita
- 1963Aloha 3 Gents — Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
- 1963Crazy Operation: First Move
- 1963Devices Stronger Than Women — Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
- 1963Miren — Master at 'Sekine'
- 1963Nonsense Boys
- 1963Travel Stories of a Company President
- 1963Travel Stories of a Company President Part II — Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
- 1963We Are Salarymen — Executive Motohashi
- 1962A Wanderer's Notebook — Nobuo Sadaoka
- 1962An Autumn Afternoon — Yoshitaro Sakamoto
- 1962Born in Sin
- 1962Chûshingura — Kichiemon Terasaka
- 1962Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
- 1962Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
- 1962Ottamage ningyo monogatari
- 1962Pachinko
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- 1962Shin kitsune to tanuki
- 1962Star of Hong Kong — Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
- 1962The Wiser Age — Ryokichi
- 1962Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- 1962Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- 1961A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- 1961A Night in Hong Kong — Kenkichi Matsuyama
- 1961Awamori-kun kanpai!
- 1961Ganpā kachō
- 1961Playboy President — Kuramochi Zensuke
- 1961Playboy President: Part II — Zensuke Kuramochi
- 1961Snow in the South Seas — Original Story
- 1961The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
- 1961The End of Summer — Kitagawa Yanosuke
- 1961The Masterless 47 – Part II
- 1961The Preacher of Love
- 1961Yojimbo — Inokichi
- 1960Beyond the Hills — Yakichi Wada
- 1960Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- 1960Count on Me
- 1960Daughters, Wives and a Mother — Shusuke Tetsumoto
- 1960Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
- 1960Hito mo arukeba — Namitaro Namiki
- 1960Jiyūgaoka fujin
- 1960Modern Moneymaking
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller — Uchuu Takeda
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Husband Education — Kumakichi Onizuka
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking — Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
- 1960Older Wife, Younger Husband
- 1960Respect, Flatter, and Love
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success — Okubo Hikosaburō
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes — Ōkubo Hikosaburō
- 1960Singing in the Sun — Kyosuke Tsumura
- 1960The Approach of Autumn — Tomioka
- 1960The Five Jolly Thieves
- 1960The Gambling Samurai — Enzo Niko
- 1960The Happicoat Comedian
- 1960The Husband Was a Baby
- 1960The Masterless 47 — Jyusaburo Onodera
- 1960This Greedy Old Skin
- 1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs — Matsukichi Sekine
- 1960Yoru wa usotsuki
- 1959Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- 1959Fox and Raccoon — Kyota Aoshima
- 1959I Want to Be a Shellfish — Takeuchi
- 1959Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
- 1959Kiri aru jyoji
- 1959New Third-Class Executive — Kumahira Onizuka
- 1959Samurai in the Office
- 1959Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
- 1959The College Ruggers — Jirō Shimizu
- 1959The Spear Master
- 1959The Terrible Game — Uncle Zenkichi
- 1959Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- 1959Violent Ishimatsu
- 1959Young Lovers — Renzō Dōjima
- 1958A Bridge for Two Alone
- 1958Assistant President
- 1958Bright Young Maidens — Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
- 1958Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 — Hajime Sawada
- 1958Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring — Kikuzō (head clerk)
- 1958Holiday in Tokyo
- 1958Little Peach — Suga
- 1958Oban kanketsu hen — Ushinotsuke Akabane
- 1958Summer Clouds
- 1958The Naked General
- 1958The Third President
- 1958Yaji and Kita on the Road — Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
- 1958Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman — Sōda Hajime
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 — Sōda Hajime
- 1957Itohan Monogatari — Matsukichi
- 1957Snow Country — Inn proprietor
- 1957The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
- 1957Untamed Woman — Onoda, the second husband
- 1957Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
- 1957Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen — Ushinosuke Akaba
- 1957Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen — Ushinotsuke Akabane
- 1957Ôban — Ushinosuke Akaba
- 19568:13 PM
- 1956A Brother and His Sister — Hayashi
- 1956A Wife's Heart
- 1956Dotanba
- 1956Early Spring — Sakamoto
- 1956Easy-Going Married Couple
- 1956Flowing — Yoneko's Ex
- 1956Fountainhead
- 1956Gendai no yokubô
- 1956Outlaw island
- 1956Pure Love
- 1956Sabakareru jūdai
- 1956Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island — Toji Gion
- 1956Samurai of the Great Earth
- 1956Spark
- 1956Street of Shame — Mr. Nomura
- 1956Sudden Rain — Kawakami
- 1956Swordsman of the Two Sword Style — Kamo Jinnai
- 1956The Lady Was Pawn
- 1956The Spoiled Brat President
- 1956The Storm
- 1956Will-o'-the-Wisp
- 1955A Woman's Life — police officer
- 1955Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji — Genta
- 1955Ejima and Ikushima — 井口
- 1955Floating Clouds — Seikichi Mukai
- 1955Foul Play — Goro Seo
- 1955Gojūen yokochō
- 1955Here Is a Spring
- 1955Mune yori mune ni — Hazama
- 1955No Time for Tears
- 1955Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple — Toji Gion
- 1955Seven Masks of Revenge
- 1955The Lone Journey
- 1955The Romance of Yushima
- 1955Tsubakuro kasa
- 1955Twilight Saloon — Kibe
- 1955Tôjûrô no koi — Kichisuke
- 1954All of Myself — Oda Jukichi
- 1954Brotherly Love
- 1954Four Mothers
- 1954Husband on the Run
- 1954Late Chrysanthemums — Itaya
- 1954Mako Osorubeshi
- 1954Mashiroki Fuji no mine
- 1954Mother's First Love
- 1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto — Toji
- 1954Seven Samurai — Shichiroji
- 1954The Surf — Chiyoko's Father
- 1954Turbid Youth
- 1954Yearning
- 1954爆笑天国 とんち教室
- 1953An Edoite Judge — Tasuke Uoya
- 1953Ganpeki
- 1953Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
- 1953Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
- 1953Jirocho's Home-Coming
- 1953Moth Lamp
- 1953Mr. Pu
- 1953The Blue Revolution
- 1953Yasugorō shusse
- 1952Castle of Carnage
- 1952Forty-Eight Man
- 1952Ikiru — Yakuza
- 1952Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- 1952Mother — Sokichi Kimura
- 1952One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- 1952Sanmanryō gojūsantsugi
- 1952Shanghai Rose — Liu, Ding's men
- 1952Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
- 1952The Life of Oharu — Tasaburo Hishiya
- 1952The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- 1952Vendetta of a Samurai
- 1952Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- 1952恐妻時代 — Nakahata
- 1951A Spectacular Murder
- 1951Freedom School
- 1951Jushu karasu
- 1951The Bitch — Gorō Matoba
- 1951The Inner Palace Conspiracy — Tajimi
- 1951The Killing of Otsuya — Mita
- 1951The Tale of Genji
- 1951Tsuki no wataridori
- 1950A Man from Akagi
- 1950Duel in Senjo Mountain
- 1950G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
- 1950I Am a Bodyguard
- 1950Kazanmyaku
- 1950Rashomon — Policeman
- 1950Senryō hada
- 1950The Motherland Far Far Away — Tommy Shôkyokusai
- 1950The Scarlet Bat
- 1950Yami ni hikarume
- 1949Chobei the Rogue
- 1949Goblin Courier
- 1949Onna goroshi abura jigoku
- 1949Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood — Yasu
- 1949The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
- 1949The Man Who Laughs Last
- 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 — Shinkichi
- 1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 — Shinkichi
- 1948G-Men of Japan
- 1948Tengu of Kiso
- 1948The Fifth Witness
- 1941The 47 Ronin — Fuwa Kazuemon
- 1938The Abe Clan
- 1937Humanity and Paper Balloons — Isuke
- 1937Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
- 1936Priest of Darkness — Kenta
- Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu