Takeshi Katō
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
(1973)Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to escalate.

None But the Brave
(1965)A crippled C-47 transport crash-lands on a remote Pacific island. For the Marines aboard, World War II becomes smaller but no less deadly.
Fighting Elegy
(1966)Zatoichi's Revenge
(1965)Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi’s investigation into these injustices uncovers a corrupt alliance between government officials and criminals, putting the blind swordsman on a bloody path of retribution in one of the series’ darkest entries.

The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)In this loose adaptation of Hamlet, Japanese police and a tycoon's son-in-law discover deadly corporate corruption.

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
(2002)Arguably the only Japanese anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that follows the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of Meguro City, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city controlled by the Catty & Co. corporation.

Mifune: The Last Samurai
(2016)Toshiro Mifune was a formidable and mercurial talent, both onscreen and off. The Last Samurai proves just how transcendent he was as an actor.
Children of Nagasaki
(1983)Pigs and Battleships
(1961)Endless Desire
(1958)
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
(1993)During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

High and Low
(1963)Toshirô Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku).