Daisuke Katō

Personal Info

Birthday

February 18, 1911

Day of Death

1975-07-31

(64 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As

加東大介

加东大介

市川莚司

Daisuke Katō

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

Seven Samurai

Rashomon

Ikiru

Chûshingura

Yojimbo

Humanity and Paper Balloons

Itohan Monogatari

Five Gents and a Kuniang

Filmography

1974
Tokyo do mannaka
as Zenzo
1971
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
as Kintarō Igari, Yoyo Finance Exec.
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President
as Kintaro Igari
1970
Five Gents and a Kuniang
as Ishibashi Tetsukichi
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
as Tetsukichi Ishibashi
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
Admiral Yamamoto
as Chief of Press Section
Rose Buds 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)
1967
Two in the Shadow
as Hayashida
Japan's Longest Day
as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
Secret Assignment
as Kusanagi
Five Gents Prefer Geisha
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
Assignment Dragon No. 3
as Kusanagi
Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
as Tetsunosuke Kanai (Managing Director)
1966
Assignment Cloud
as Kusanagi
The School of Spies
as Lieutenant Kusanagi
Moment of Terror
as Kawashima
Five Gents on the Spot
as Kanju Goto
Rise Against the Sword
as Budeuemon Hattori
A Company President's Life Story
as Gotō Kanju (Managing Director)
1965
Stairs of Evil
as Konishi
Sanshiro Sugata
as Hansuke Murai
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
as Chūzō Togashi (Managing Director)
1964
Superexpress
as Yukichi Nakae
The Naked Executive
as Tadokori - Executive
Hail the 3 Gents
as Tomioka (Sales Manager)
1963
We Are Salarymen
as Executive Motohashi
Miren
as Master at 'Sekine'
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
as Gentaro Ōshima (Managing Director)
Company President Travels Abroad
as Oshima Gentaro (Executive Director)
Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
as Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
Devices Stronger Than Women
as Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
as Yoshitaro Sakamoto
Chûshingura
as Kichiemon Terasaka
A Wanderer's Notebook
as Nobuo Sadaoka
Star of Hong Kong
as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
The Wiser Age
as Ryokichi
1961
The End of Summer
as Kitagawa Yanosuke
A Night in Hong Kong
as Kenkichi Matsuyama
Playboy President: Part II
as Zensuke Kuramochi
Yojimbo
as Inokichi
Playboy President
as Kuramochi Zensuke
1960
The Masterless 47
as Jyusaburo Onodera
The Approach of Autumn
as Tomioka
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 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)
1959
The Terrible Game
as Uncle Zenkichi
Young Lovers
as Renzō Dōjima
New Third-Class Executive
as Kumahira Onizuka
The College Ruggers
as Jirō Shimizu
Fox and Raccoon
as Kyota Aoshima
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as Takeuchi
1958
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
Little Peach
as Suga
Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Yajirobei Tochimen'ya
1957
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
Untamed Woman
as Onoda, the second husband
Snow Country
as Inn proprietor
Ôban
as Ushinosuke Akaba
Itohan Monogatari
as Matsukichi
1956
Flowing
as Yoneko's Ex
Street of Shame
as Mr. Nomura
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
as Kamo Jinnai
Early Spring
as Sakamoto
Sudden Rain
as Kawakami
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Toji Gion
1955
Mune yori mune ni
as Hazama
Ejima and Ikushima
as 井口

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Toji Gion
Twilight Saloon
as Kibe
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
as Genta
A Woman's Life
as police officer
Floating Clouds
as Seikichi Mukai
Foul Play
as Goro Seo
1954
The Surf
as Chiyoko's Father
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Toji
Late Chrysanthemums
as Itaya
All of Myself
as Oda Jukichi
Seven Samurai
as Shichiroji
1953
An Edoite Judge
as Tasuke Uoya
1952
恐妻時代
as Nakahata
Ikiru
as Yakuza
Shanghai Rose
as Liu, Ding's men
Mother
as Sokichi Kimura
The Life of Oharu
as Tasaburo Hishiya
1951
The Bitch
as Gorō Matoba
The Killing of Otsuya
as Mita
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Tajimi
1950
Rashomon
as Policeman
The Motherland Far Far Away
as Tommy Shôkyokusai
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Shinkichi
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Shinkichi
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
as Yasu
1941
The 47 Ronin
as Fuwa Kazuemon
1937
Humanity and Paper Balloons
as Isuke
1936
Priest of Darkness
as Kenta