Takeshi Katô

All Movies of Takeshi Katô

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  7.2
  Mifune: The Last Samurai
  Prominent Japanese/American director Steven Okazaki is set to shoot “Mifune: Last Samurai,” a high-profile feature docu on Toshiro Mifune, the most prominent actor of Japan’s golden age of cinema.
   2015

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 17 (Free and Easy 17)
   2006

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  5.8
  The Sinking of Japan
  In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in time, l...
  Character: Prof.Yamashiro

   2006

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 16 (Free and Easy 16)
   2005

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 15 (Free and Easy 15)
   2004

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 14 (Free and Easy 14)
  Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan's new boss naively tries to retrain him. Later, Su-san and Hama-chan go on a business trip, where they mee...
   2003

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 12 (Free and Easy 12)
   2001

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  Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
   1998

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  Village of the Eight Tombs
  A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense of the gothic that brings to mind the works of Edgar Allan Poe and...
   1996

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 7 (Free and Easy 7)
   1994

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  XX: Beautiful Weapon
  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.
   1993

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 6 (Free and Easy 6)
  Su-san must give a lecture in far-off Iwate, which serves as another excuse for the company president and Hama-chan to go fishing. Once there, however, Hama-chan is mistaken for the company president and Su-san for his chauffeur.
   1993

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 5 (Free and Easy 5)
   1992

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 4 (Free and Easy 4)
   1991

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  Company Executives
  A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when it's president passes away!
   1989

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  8.6
  Ran
  A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, h...
   1985

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  Lonely Heart
  The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One of them was engaged to one of the victims and ...
   1981

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  Summer Soldiers
  This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan during the Vietnam war. Many of the men went on leave to Tokyo. Some did not want to return and ended up shelt...
   1972

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  5.8
  None But the Brave
  American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, ...
  Character: Sgt. Tamura (as Takeshi Kato)

   1965

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  8.0
  Only on Mondays
  Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
   1964

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  7.7
  The Insect Woman
  Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village to find work in factory, where she engages in an affair with her boss. She...
   1963

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  8.1
  High and Low
  It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for ransom....
   1963

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  Foundry Town
  Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.
   1962

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  A Wanderer's Notebook
  Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.
   1962

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  8.7
  Yojimbo the Bodyguard
  In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his combat skills, both sides will try to hire him.
  Character: Ronin Kobuhachi

   1961

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  8.0
  The Bad Sleep Well
  A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American fil...
   1960