Personal Info
Birth date
1925-06-16 (100 Years)
Day of death
2020-06-14
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
-Shigeo Katō
Biography
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Filmography
Seven Samurai
8.452
Overview:
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.Ikiru
8.31
Overview:
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
NYR
Overview:
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s honor—until a last-minute comeback restores both.Dreams
7.7
Overview:
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.Madadayo
7.3
Overview:
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.The Return of Godzilla
7.181
Overview:
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.Terror of Mechagodzilla
6.9
Overview:
A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.Lake of Dracula
6.67
Overview:
A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years later, it is revealed to be a hellish prophecy when a strange package containing an empty coffin mysteriously turns up at a nearby lake.Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
6.4
Overview:
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.Lullaby of the Earth
6.5
Overview:
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
7.2
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Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.Double Suicide of Sonezaki
6.8
Overview:
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.Ultra Q
8.143
Overview:
As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public. With allies and science aiding them on their journey, the trio must separate myth from history as they explore the greater mysteries of these occurrences: are they unrelated, or is this barrage somehow a portent of even worse things to come?Too Young to Die
7
Overview:
A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.The Imperial Navy
6.3
Overview:
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.Space Amoeba
6.4
Overview:
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.Mothra
7.1
Overview:
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.The Blossom and the Sword
7
Overview:
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
NYR
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Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A slick crime comedy of cons and payback.Rhapsody in August
7.2
Overview:
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.Godzilla 1985
6.8
Overview:
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.Beauty in Rope Hell
5.9
Overview:
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.ESPY
5.6
Overview:
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.Gorath
6.5
Overview:
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.The Vampire Doll
6.9
Overview:
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.Acting
1997Eko Eko Azarak: The Series (3 Episodes) as Old Man
1993Madadayo as Stationmaster
1991Rhapsody in August as Unknown
1990Dreams as Unknown
1989Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally as Unknown
1985Godzilla 1985 as Ship Captain
1984The Return of Godzilla as Captain of the Yahata Maru
1983Beauty in Rope Hell as Hiyama(光子の父) / Mitsuko's Father
1982The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S as Unknown
1981Station as Unknown
1981The Imperial Navy as Unknown
1978Double Suicide of Sonezaki as Unknown
1976The Corporation as Unknown
1976Lullaby of the Earth as Seisuke
1975Terror of Mechagodzilla as Unknown
1975Without Complaint as Unknown
1974ESPY as International Conference Center Security Officer
1974Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters as Unknown
1973The Blossom and the Sword as Unknown
1971Lake of Dracula as Guest at a coffee shop (uncredited)
1970Space Amoeba as Islander (uncredited)
1970The Vampire Doll as Man from Ogawara Town Hall
1969Black Comedy - Ah, Fool as Unknown
1969Too Young to Die as Police Officer
1968Judge and Jeopardy as Unknown
1966Ultra Q (1 Episode) as Residential police
1965Fort Graveyard as Deguchi
1964You Can Succeed, Too as Unknown
1962Operation Sewer Rats as (uncredited)
1962Gorath as South Pole Base Worker
1961Mothra as Dam Watchman
1961Wakarete ikiru toki mo as Unknown
1960The Last Gunfight as Inspector (uncredited)
1959Battle in Outer Space as Astronomer
1959Fox and Raccoon as Mail Carrier (Edosaki)
1959A Young Boss Tries Really Hard as Unknown
1958Oban kanketsu hen as Takiyama
1958The H-Man as Matsu
1957Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Unknown
1957Ôban as Takaiyama
1956Love on Rainbow Island as Unknown
1955Beast Man Snow Man as Villager (uncredited)
1955Lovetide as (uncredited)
1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Soldier (uncredited)
1954Seven Samurai as Farmer
1953The Eagle of the Pacific as Unknown
1952The Man Who Came to Port as (uncredited)
1952Ikiru as (uncredited)
1952Tokyo Sweetheart as Unknown