Daisuke Katō
Acting1911Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known For
Acting History
1974
Center of Tokyo
as Zenzo
1971
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
as Kintaro Igari
1970
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
as Tetsukichi Ishibashi
Five Gents and a Kuniang
as Ishibashi Tetsukichi
1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
1968
Rose Buds in the Rainbow
as Gôzô Maeda
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
Gamblers: The Raid
as Kichigorō
Admiral Yamamoto
as Chief of Press Section
The Night before Pearl Harbor
as Kusanagi
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Tsutomu Ariga
Ryoma ga Yuku
TVas Katsu Kaishu• 52 eps
1967
Assignment Dragon No. 3
as Kusanagi
Secret Assignment
as Kusanagi
Two in the Shadow
as Hayashida
Japan's Longest Day
as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
Tabiji
TVas 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎• 309 eps
1966
The School of Spies
as Lieutenant Kusanagi
Assignment Cloud
as Kusanagi
Rise Against the Sword
as Budeuemon Hattori
Five Gents on the Spot
as Kanju Goto
A Company President's Life Story
as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
Moment of Terror
as Kawashima
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
as Hansuke Murai
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
1964
The Naked Executive
as Tadokori - Executive
Hail the 3 Gents
as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
Superexpress
as Yukichi Nakae
1963
Company President Travels Abroad
as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
Miren
as Master at 'Sekine'
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
We Are Salarymen
as Executive Motohashi
Devices Stronger Than Women
as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
1962
Star of Hong Kong
as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
A Wanderer's Notebook
as Nobuo Sadaoka
An Autumn Afternoon
as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
Chûshingura
as Kichiemon Terasaka
The Wiser Age
as Ryokichi
1961
A Night in Hong Kong
as Kenkichi Matsuyama
Yojimbo
as Inokichi
Playboy President
as Kuramochi Zensuke
The End of Summer
as Kitagawa Yanosuke
Playboy President: Part II
as Zensuke Kuramochi
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Shusuke Tetsumoto
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Matsukichi Sekine
Hito mo arukeba
as Namitaro Namiki
The Approach of Autumn
as Tomioka
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Kumakichi Onizuka
Beyond the Hills
as Yakichi Wada
The Masterless 47
as Jyusaburo Onodera
The Gambling Samurai
as Enzo Niko
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
as Okubo Hikosaburō
1959
New Third-Class Executive
as Kumahira Onizuka
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as Takeuchi
The Terrible Game
as Uncle Zenkichi
1958
Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
Bright Young Maidens
as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
Oban kanketsu hen
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Little Peach
as Suga
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Kikuzō (head clerk)
1957
Itohan Monogatari
as Matsukichi
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Ushinosuke Akaba
Untamed Woman
as Onoda, the second husband
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Ôban
as Ushinosuke Akaba
Snow Country
as Inn proprietor
1956
Flowing
as Yoneko's Ex
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
as Kamo Jinnai
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Toji Gion
Early Spring
as Sakamoto
Street of Shame
as Mr. Nomura
Sudden Rain
as Kawakami
1955
A Woman's Life
as police officer
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
as Genta
Mune yori mune ni
as Hazama
Ejima and Ikushima
as 井口
Twilight Saloon
as Kibe
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Toji Gion
Floating Clouds
as Seikichi Mukai
Foul Play
as Goro Seo
1954
All of Myself
as Oda Jukichi
Seven Samurai
as Shichiroji
Late Chrysanthemums
as Itaya
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Toji
The Surf
as Chiyoko's Father
1952
Ikiru
as Yakuza
恐妻時代
as Nakahata
The Life of Oharu
as Tasaburo Hishiya
Mother
as Sokichi Kimura
Shanghai Rose
as Liu, Ding's men
1951
1950
Rashomon
as Policeman
The Motherland Far Far Away
as Tommy Shôkyokusai
1948
1941
The 47 Ronin
as Fuwa Kazuemon
1938
1936
Priest of Darkness
as Kenta