Kazuo Kato

Kazuo Kato

Born: January 1, 1928
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Kazuo Kato...

Kaito Ruby
Title: Kaito Ruby
Character: Toru's Boss
Released: November 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
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Title: Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
Character: Gaku Yamamoto
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: TV
The story of the battles between the 3 related families Kishu, Mito, and Owari, as each vies for the shogun’s seat in the line of succession. Highlighting the series are many fights between the young lord’s Negoro ninja helpers and their mortal enemies, the Koga ninja. History comes alive with the bloody blades of the three families at war within the highest levels of government as the search for a new shogun continues!
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Ran
Title: Ran
Character: Kageyu Ikoma
Released: June 1, 1985
Type: Movie
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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Mermaid Legend
Title: Mermaid Legend
Character: Ota
Released: April 14, 1984
Type: Movie
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
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Zankoku! Shōjo tarento
Title: Zankoku! Shōjo tarento
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.
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The Yoshida School
Title: The Yoshida School
Character: Kaneshichi Masuda
Released: April 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
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The Longest Tunnel
Title: The Longest Tunnel
Released: October 16, 1982
Type: Movie
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
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The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
Title: The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
Released: July 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was kicked out of the monastery long ago. He is enterprising, smart and not too cruel, so his accomplices love him. Posing as an envoy from the abbot of the Kennei Temple, Kotiama plays a show in front of Lord Matsue with an income of 150,000 koku, and extorts money from him. The film is based on the famous play by Kawatake Mokuami.
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Gate of Youth
Title: Gate of Youth
Character: Owner
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
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Human Revolution II
Title: Human Revolution II
Released: June 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Without Complaint
Title: Without Complaint
Character: Secretary 2
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Character: Baba
Released: June 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Released: June 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
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The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
Title: The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
Character: Dan
Released: November 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.
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Sword and Flower
Title: Sword and Flower
Released: April 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
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その人は炎のように
Title: その人は炎のように
Released: February 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Film by Deme Masanobu
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Island of Horrors
Title: Island of Horrors
Character: Gunjûrô Segoshi
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
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Dodes'ka-den
Title: Dodes'ka-den
Character: Painter
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
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Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
Title: Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
Character: Policeman
Released: August 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.
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Bullet Wound
Title: Bullet Wound
Released: September 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to take out both parties. After almost getting assassinated himself, he takes a wounded civilian with him despite living in a world where no one can be trusted.
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Title: Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Character: Dr. Momotake
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
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Judge and Jeopardy
Title: Judge and Jeopardy
Released: June 8, 1968
Type: Movie
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
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The Man of Victory
Title: The Man of Victory
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Ghost of the Hunchback
Title: The Ghost of the Hunchback
Character: Lawyer Isobe
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
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18 Roughs
Title: 18 Roughs
Released: September 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
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High and Low
Title: High and Low
Character: Identification Center Worker
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Title: I Want to Be a Shellfish
Released: April 12, 1959
Type: Movie
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
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I Live in Fear
Title: I Live in Fear
Character: Susumu
Released: November 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.