Takeshi Katō (actor)

Takeshi Katō
Born	24 May 1929 Tokyo, Japan
Died	31 July 2015 (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1954-2015

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.

Career

Graduating from Waseda University, Katō first became a middle school teacher, but then joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1952.^[1] Beyond appearing in and directing plays on stage, he also appeared in films by such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shohei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa, and Kiriro Urayama.^[1]

He died on 31 July 2015 after collapsing in a sauna.^[2]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		Tadashi Imai	Uncredited
1954	Seven Samurai		Akira Kurosawa	Uncredited
1958	The Hidden Fortress		Akira Kurosawa
1960	The Bad Sleep Well	Itakura	Akira Kurosawa
1961	Pigs and Battleships	Ōhachi	Shohei Imamura
	Yojimbo	Kobuhachi	Akira Kurosawa
1962	Foundry Town	Noda	Kirio Urayama
1963	High and Low	Detective Nakao	Akira Kurosawa
	Mother	Toshiro	Kaneto Shindo
	Bushido, Samurai Saga		Tadashi Imai
1965	Sword of the Beast	Katori	Hideo Gosha
1968	Japan's Longest Day	Hisatsune Sakomizu	Kihachi Okamoto
	Bonta No Kekkon Ya	Kasamatsu	Koji Chino
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Noburo Uchimoto	Kinji Fukasaku
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics	Noburo Uchimoto	Kinji Fukasaku
1976	The Inugamis	Tachibana	Kon Ichikawa
1985	Ran	Koyata Hatakeyama	Akira Kurosawa
1987	Princess from the Moon	Fujiwara-no-Ōkuni	Kon Ichikawa
1999	The Geisha House	Kitayama	Kinji Fukasaku
2006	The Inugamis	Todoroki	Kon Ichikawa

References

1. "Katō Takeshi". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
2. "加藤武さん、サウナで倒れ急死　８６歳". Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

External links

• Takeshi Katō at the Internet Movie Database