Takeshi Katō

Takeshi Katō

May 24, 1929 · 97 years old

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

14 titles
1
High and Low

High and Low

1963 · 2h 23m · Movie

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

8.4
2
The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well

1960 · 2h 31m · Movie

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

8.0
3
Proxy War

Proxy War

1973 · 1h 59m · Movie

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

7.3
4
Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan

Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan

2006 · 2h 15m · Movie

Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The governments only hope is evacuate all Japanese to some other countries.

5.6
5
Zatoichi's Revenge

Zatoichi's Revenge

1965 · 1h 24m · Movie

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

7.3
6
Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai

2016 · 1h 20m · Movie

A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu ...

7.2
7
The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room

1956 · 1h 50m · Movie

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

7.1
8
Akuma no temari-uta

Akuma no temari-uta

1977 · 2h 24m · Movie

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in o...

6.8
9
The Devil's Island

The Devil's Island

1977 · 2h 21m · Movie

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

6.4
10
Kyûpora no aru machi

Kyûpora no aru machi

1962 · 1h 39m · Movie

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

7.3
11
The 8-Tomb Village

The 8-Tomb Village

1996 · 2h 6m · Movie

In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakam...

6.2
12
Koto: Ancient City

Koto: Ancient City

1980 · 2h 5m · Movie

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

6.7
13
Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi

1973 · 2h 28m · Movie

A darker, deconstructionist depiction of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.

7.1
14
The Gate of Youth

The Gate of Youth

1975 · 3h 8m · Movie

Shinsuke's life from infancy to teens revolves around coal mining. His father sacrifices himself rescuing trapped miners. Shinsuke and his mother receive support from a kind Korean man and a yakuza biker as they cope with the loss.

6.9