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Full Name
  
Yasumichi Kato

Died
  
June 17, 1985

Role
  
Film director

Name
  
Tai Kato

Years active
  
1951-1981


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Born
  
August 24, 1916 (
1916-08-24
)
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
I - the Executioner, Kaze no Bushi, Amagi Pass, Kutsukake Tokijiro ‑ yukyo ipp, Hibotan bakuto: oryu sanjo

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Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hashizo Okawa, Sanae Nakahara, Azuma Morisaki

Blood of Revenge (1965) -Trailer-


Tai Kato (加藤 泰, Katō Tai, August 24, 1916—June 17, 1985) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was best known for making yakuza films at the Toei Company in 1960s.

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Tai Kato's Theater of Life (Definitive Fan-Trailer)


Biography

Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Kato was the nephew of the film director Sadao Yamanaka. He entered the Toho studio in 1937 and first began by working on documentaries. He worked as an assistant director to Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon. After World War II he switched to making jidaigeki.

Style and influences

Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times noted that Kato has been compared with Budd Boetticher and Samuel Fuller.

Selected filmography

  • Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963)
  • Kaze no Bushi (1964)
  • Bakumatsu zankoku monogatari (AKA Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall) (1964)
  • Meiji Kyokyakuden: Sandaime Shumei (1965)
  • Kutsukake Tokijiro: Yukyo Ippiki (1966)
  • By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)
  • I, the Executioner (1968)
  • Red Peony Gambler: Hanafuda Shobu (1969)
  • Red Peony Gambler: Oryu Sanjo (1970)
  • Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

    • References

    Tai Kato Wikipedia
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