Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
Rashomon
as Policeman
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
as Ishiyama Gōzō (HR director)
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
as Gōzō Ishiyama (General Affairs Manager)
Admiral Yamamoto
as Chief of Press Section
Lemon in the Rainbow
as Gôzô Maeda
Gamblers: The Raid
as Kichigorō
The Night before Pearl Harbor
as Kusanagi
Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
as Tsutomu Ariga
Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)
Two in the Shadow
as Hayashida
The Greatest Challenge of All
Japan's Longest Day
as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
Secret Assignment
as Kusanagi
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
Our Silent Love
The Bogus Policeman
Zoku izuko e
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
as Gunpei Otaguro
Assignment Dragon No. 3
as Kusanagi
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
Once a Rainy Day
The Daphne
Assignment Cloud
as Kusanagi
The School of Spies
as Lieutenant Kusanagi
Moment of Terror
as Kawashima
Five Gents on the Spot
as Kanju Goto
The Stranger Within a Woman
Rise Against the Sword
as Budeuemon Hattori
A Company President's Life Story
as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
Stairs of Evil
as Konishi
We Will Remember
Finances in Front of the Train Station
Sanshiro Sugata
as Hansuke Murai
A Chair in the Sunshine
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
The Radish and the Carrot
Five Gents' Trick Book
Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins
as 4th Sin & 7th Sin
Superexpress
as Yukichi Nakae
Nippon Paradise
The Naked Executive
as Tadokori - Executive
The Sharks
I'm a Bodyguard
3 Gents in the Snow Country
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
How to Make Money
Hail the 3 Gents
as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
We Are Salarymen
as Executive Motohashi
A Woman's Life
as Tobita
Miren
as Master at 'Sekine'
Nonsense Boys
Aloha 3 Gents
as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
3 Gents In Hawaii
as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
Crazy Operation: First Move
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
A Salaryman's Reckless Family
Devices Stronger Than Women
as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
Travel Stories of a Company President
Pachinko
Born in Sin
An Autumn Afternoon
as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
Chûshingura
as Kichiemon Terasaka
Shin kitsune to tanuki
A Wanderer's Notebook
as Nobuo Sadaoka
Star of Hong Kong
as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
The Wiser Age
as Ryokichi
Shimizu Port Salaryman
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Ganpā kachō
The End of Summer
as Kitagawa Yanosuke
Awamori-kun kanpai!
Snow in the South Seas
A Night in Hong Kong
as Kenkichi Matsuyama
Playboy President: Part II
as Zensuke Kuramochi
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Yojimbo
as Inokichi
Playboy President
as Kuramochi Zensuke
The Masterless 47 – Part II
The Preacher of Love
The Masterless 47
as Jyusaburo Onodera
Modern Moneymaking
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
The Husband Was a Baby
The Approach of Autumn
as Tomioka
Older Wife, Younger Husband
This Greedy Old Skin
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Respect, Flatter, and Love
Yoru wa usotsuki
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Kumakichi Onizuka
Singing in the Sun
as Kyosuke Tsumura
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
as Okubo Hikosaburō
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Shusuke Tetsumoto
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
as Uchuu Takeda
The Happicoat Comedian
Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1
The Gambling Samurai
as Enzo Niko
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
as Ōkubo Hikosaburō
Hito mo arukeba
as Namitaro Namiki
Beyond the Hills
as Yakichi Wada
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Matsukichi Sekine
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
as Kumakichi Onizuka (Maiko's father)
The Spear Master
The Terrible Game
as Uncle Zenkichi
Kiri aru jyoji
Young Lovers
as Renzō Dōjima
Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
New Third-Class Executive
as Kumahira Onizuka
The College Ruggers
as Jirō Shimizu
Samurai in the Office
Fox and Raccoon
as Kyota Aoshima
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as Takeuchi
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
The Naked General
Bright Young Maidens
as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's Father
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
as Hajime Sawada
Summer Clouds
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Kikuzō (head clerk)
Oban kanketsu hen
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Little Peach
as Suga
Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
Holiday in Tokyo
The Third President
A Bridge for Two Alone
Assistant President
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Ushinotsuke Akabane
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
as Sōda Hajime
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Ushinosuke Akaba
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
as Sōda Hajime
Untamed Woman
as Onoda, the second husband
Snow Country
as Inn proprietor
Ôban
as Ushinosuke Akaba
Itohan Monogatari
as Matsukichi
Flowing
as Yoneko's Ex
Dotanba
Pure Love
The Storm
Easy-Going Married Couple
A Brother and His Sister
as Hayashi
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Gendai no yokubô
Outlaw island
A Wife's Heart
The Lady Was Pawn
Street of Shame
as Mr. Nomura
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
as Kamo Jinnai
Fountainhead
The Spoiled Brat President
Early Spring
as Sakamoto
Samurai of the Great Earth
Sudden Rain
as Kawakami
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Toji Gion
Mune yori mune ni
as Hazama
Ejima and Ikushima
as 井口
The Romance of Yushima
The Lone Journey
Seven Masks of Revenge
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Toji Gion
五十円横町
Twilight Saloon
as Kibe
Tôjûrô no koi
as Kichisuke
No Time for Tears
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
as Genta
Here Is a Spring
A Woman's Life
as police officer
Floating Clouds
as Seikichi Mukai
Foul Play
as Goro Seo
Brotherly Love
The Surf
as Chiyoko's Father
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Toji
Turbid Youth
Mother's First Love
Husband on the Run
Mashiroki Fuji no mine
爆笑天国 とんち教室
Mako Osorubeshi
Late Chrysanthemums
as Itaya
Yearning
All of Myself
as Oda Jukichi
Seven Samurai
as Shichiroji
Four Mothers
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Moth Lamp
Jirocho's Home-Coming
The Blue Revolution
Ganpeki
Mr. Pu
Yasugorō shusse
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
An Edoite Judge
as Tasuke Uoya
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
恐妻時代
as Nakahata
Ikiru
as Yakuza
Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
Shanghai Rose
as Liu, Ding's men
Forty-Eight Man
Mother
as Sokichi Kimura
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
The Life of Oharu
as Tasaburo Hishiya
Castle of Carnage
Sanmanryō gojūsantsugi
Vendetta of a Samurai
The Bitch
as Gorō Matoba
The Tale of Genji
Jushu karasu
Freedom School
Tsuki no wataridori
The Killing of Otsuya
as Mita
A Spectacular Murder
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Tajimi
The Scarlet Bat
A Man from Akagi
Rashomon
as Policeman
Senryō hada
Sarutobi Sasuke: Senjō ke goku no hi matsuri
Yami ni hikarume
Kazanmyaku
The Motherland Far Far Away
as Tommy Shôkyokusai
I Am a Bodyguard
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
Chobei the Rogue
Onna goroshi abura jigoku
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Shinkichi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Shinkichi
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
as Yasu
The Man Who Laughs Last
Goblin Courier
G-Men of Japan
The Fifth Witness
Tengu of Kiso
The 47 Ronin
as Fuwa Kazuemon
