Occupation Actor | Years active 1954-2015 | |
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Born 24 May 1929 ( 1929-05-24 ) Tokyo, Japan Died 31 July 2015, Tokyo, Japan TV shows Fūrin Kazan, Heart of a Samurai Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Movies The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low, The Hidden Fortress, Battles Without Honor an, Ran Similar Kon Ichikawa, Hideji Ōtaki, Shoichi Ozawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Hideo Oguni | ||
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.
Career
Graduating from Waseda University, Katō first became a middle school teacher, but then joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1952. Beyond appearing in and directing plays on stage, he also appeared in films by such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shohei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa, and Kiriro Urayama.
He died on 31 July 2015 after collapsing in a sauna.
References
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