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Daisuke Katō

Born 1911-02-18

Died 1975-07-31

📍 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 218

Center of Tokyo

First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri

as Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff

as Kintaro Igari

Morning for Two

Five Gents and a Kuniang

as Ishibashi Tetsukichi

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

as Tetsukichi Ishibashi

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

Rose Buds in the Rainbow

as Gôzô Maeda

Gamblers: The Raid

The Night before Pearl Harbor

Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

as Tsutomu Ariga

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

as Tsutomu Ariga (Takayama Trading General Affairs Manager)

as Katsu Kaishu

Two in the Shadow

The Greatest Challenge of All

Japan's Longest Day

as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Secret Assignment

Five Gents Prefer Geisha

as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

The Bogus Policeman

as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎

Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri

as Gunpei Otaguro

Assignment Dragon No. 3

Discover Japan with the 5 Gents

as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)

Assignment Cloud

The School of Spies

as Lieutenant Kusanagi

Moment of Terror

Five Gents on the Spot

The Stranger Within a Woman

Rise Against the Sword

as Budeuemon Hattori

A Company President's Life Story

as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)

We Will Remember

Sanshiro Sugata

as Hansuke Murai

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

as Yukichi Nakae

The Naked Executive

as Tadokori - Executive

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

as Master at 'Sekine'

Company President Travels Abroad Part II

as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)

Company President Travels Abroad

as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)

Crazy Operation: First Move

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)

Devices Stronger Than Women

as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)

Travel Stories of a Company President

An Autumn Afternoon

as Yoshitaro Sakamoto

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

Shimizu Port Salaryman

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

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

Playboy President

as Kuramochi Zensuke

The Masterless 47 – Part II

The Preacher of Love

The Masterless 47

as Jyusaburo Onodera

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

The Husband Was a Baby

The Approach of Autumn

Older Wife, Younger Husband

This Greedy Old Skin

Jiyūgaoka fujin

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

Diary of a Successful Salaryman • Conclusion-Bridegroom: Manager No.1

The Gambling Samurai

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 Terrible Game

as Uncle Zenkichi

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

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

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

as Kikuzō (head clerk)

Oban kanketsu hen

as Ushinotsuke Akabane

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

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Ushinosuke Akaba

Diary of a Successful Salaryman

as Sōda Hajime

as Onoda, the second husband

as Inn proprietor

as Ushinosuke Akaba

Itohan Monogatari

A Brother and His Sister

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Gendai no yokubô

The Lady Was Pawn

Street of Shame

Swordsman of the Two Sword Style

Dadakko Shachou

Samurai of the Great Earth

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Mune yori mune ni

Ejima and Ikushima

The Romance of Yushima

The Lone Journey

Seven Masks of Revenge

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

五十円横町

Twilight Saloon

No Time for Tears

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Here Is a Spring

as police officer

Floating Clouds

as Seikichi Mukai

as Chiyoko's Father

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Mother's First Love

爆笑天国　とんち教室

Mako Osorubeshi

Late Chrysanthemums

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho's Home-Coming

Yasugorō shusse

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

An Edoite Judge

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

as Liu, Ding's men

Forty-Eight Man

as Sokichi Kimura

The Life of Oharu

as Tasaburo Hishiya

三万両五十三次

Vendetta of a Samurai

as Gorō Matoba

The Tale of Genji

The Killing of Otsuya

A Spectacular Murder

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

A Man from Akagi

The Motherland Far Far Away

as Tommy Shôkyokusai

Ore wa yōjimbō

G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

The Man Who Laughs Last

as Fuwa Kazuemon

Humanity and Paper Balloons

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

Priest of Darkness