Takeshi Katō

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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.

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Total trailers found: 150

Seven Samurai Trailer (1954)

26 April 1954

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

High and Low Trailer (1963)

01 March 1963

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

Voice from the Dark Trailer (1983)

16 July 1983

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.

Crybaby Chacha Trailer (1987)

21 February 1987

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life.

The Great Shogunate Battle Trailer (1991)

14 December 1991

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay.

The Gambling Monk Trailer (1963)

13 October 1963

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral.

Kimagure tosei Trailer (1962)

18 February 1962

1962 Japanese movie

Yojimbo Trailer (1961)

25 April 1961

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade.

Ran Trailer (1985)

01 June 1985

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Foundry Town Trailer (1962)

08 April 1962

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Volunteering for Villainy Trailer (1960)

20 September 1960

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

The Spying Sorceress Trailer (1964)

12 December 1964

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.

Japan's Longest Day Trailer (1967)

03 August 1967

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender.

Throne of Blood Trailer (1957)

15 January 1957

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures.

XX: Beautiful Weapon Trailer (1993)

22 December 1993

A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.

Eternity of Love Trailer (1961)

04 April 1961

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Lullaby to Kill Trailer (1977)

02 April 1977

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.

Kawachi fūten zoku Trailer (1968)

25 May 1968

1968 film

Marriage Counselor Tora-san Trailer (1984)

04 August 1984

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province.

The Girl I Abandoned Trailer (1969)

03 September 1969

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college.

House of Terrors Trailer (1965)

01 August 1965

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters.

Island of Hell Trailer (1977)

27 August 1977

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

The Hidden Fortress Trailer (1958)

28 December 1958

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains Trailer (1961)

06 December 1961

An Inlet of Muddy Water Trailer (1953)

23 November 1953

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.

Let's Meet in Our Dreams Trailer (1962)

15 September 1962

Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she falls in love with two men, a petty thief and a music writer and teacher, and makes her way in the industry alongside The Peanuts and The Crazy Cats.

Zatoichi's Revenge Trailer (1965)

03 April 1965

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity Trailer (1973)

13 January 1973

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

The Great White Tower Trailer (1966)

15 October 1966

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka.

The Inugami Family Trailer (1976)

16 October 1976

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

Three Yakuza Trailer (1965)

22 May 1965

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics Trailer (1974)

15 January 1974

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Sword of the Beast Trailer (1965)

18 September 1965

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot.

Dansen Trailer (1983)

03 December 1983

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

Odin: Starlight Mutiny Trailer (1985)

10 August 1985

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight.

Zenigeba Trailer (1970)

31 October 1970

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Miyamoto Musashi Trailer (1973)

13 July 1973

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro.

Tracing Jake Trailer (2004)

07 February 2004

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world.

Watashi no naka no shōfu Trailer (1984)

03 November 1984

Noh Mask Murders Trailer (1991)

16 March 1991

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Endless Desire Trailer (1958)

18 November 1958

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war.

Battle of the Japan Sea Trailer (1969)

01 August 1969

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.

Zero Trailer (1984)

11 August 1984

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero.

Japan Sinks Trailer (2006)

15 July 2006

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.

The Bad Sleep Well Trailer (1960)

19 September 1960

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi.

Murder of the Inugami Clan Trailer (2006)

16 December 2006

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War Trailer (1973)

25 September 1973

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances.

Queen Bee Trailer (1978)

11 February 1978

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.

The House of Hanging Trailer (1979)

26 May 1979

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case.

Company Executives Trailer (1989)

10 June 1989

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Fighting Elegy Trailer (1966)

09 November 1966

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Lonely Heart Trailer (1981)

10 October 1981

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

The Gate of Youth Trailer (1975)

15 February 1975

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens.

Last Round Trailer (1962)

29 July 1962

1962 Japanese movie

Night Scandal in Japan Trailer (1964)

12 March 1964

The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend.

Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi Trailer (1963)

12 May 1963

Godzilla 1985 Trailer (1985)

23 August 1985

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985".

Fossilized Wilderness Trailer (1982)

17 April 1982

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight.

Pigs and Battleships Trailer (1961)

21 January 1961

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Ninja, A Band of Assassins Trailer (1962)

01 December 1962

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.