List of the best Takeshi Kato movies: The Bad Sleep Well(1960), Fighting Elegy(1966), Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai(1963), None but the Brave(1965), Godzilla 1985(1984), Ran(1985) ... ...
Crime, Drama
1960
144 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Takeshi Kato Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Kô Nishimura
daughter son father businessman vice president lawyer outlandish eerie japan wedding cemetery office revenge suicide corporate greed corruption cover-up rivalry wretched excess pursuit
Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
Action
Japan
1966
86 Minutes
Hideki Takahashi Junko Asano Yusuke Kawazu Takeshi Kato Isao Tamagawa Kayo Matsuo Mitsuo Kataoka Chikako Miyagi Keisuke Noro Seijiro Onda Hiroshi Midorikawa
During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
Drama
Japan
1963
119 Minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura Eijiro Tono Kyôko Kishida Masayuki Mori Shinjirô Ehara Takeshi Kato Yoshiko Mita Ineko Arima
salaryman fiancée swordsman lord military officer wife brooding japan hospital castle battlefield curse bad luck violence ambition suicide family history sacrifice wretched excess 19th century
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
War
Japan|USA
1965
105 Minutes
Sgt. Tamura
Frank Sinatra Clint Walker Tommy Sands Brad Dexter Tony Bill Tatsuya Mihashi Takeshi Kato Sammy Jackson Richard Bakalyan Rafer Johnson
lieutenant melodramatic lighthearted gripping south pacific race relations discovery 1940s
During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.
Sci-Fi
1984
91 Minutes
Trade Minister
R.J. Kizer Raymond Burr Shin Takuma Ken Tanaka Keiju Kobayashi Yasuko Sawaguchi Ettaro Ozawa Taketoshi Naito Nobuo Kaneko Takeshi Kato Mizuho Suzuki
Drama, History
Japan|France
1985
160 Minutes
Tatsuya Nakadai Mieko Harada Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryu Yoshiko Miyazaki Kazuo Kato Masayuki Yui Hitoshi Ueki Hisashi Igawa Takeshi Nomura
lord son brother messenger fool dark bleak castle japan greed revenge betrayal death conspiracy injustice fall pursuit rivalry 12th century
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.