Daisuke Katō
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1911-02-18
Jaioterria: Tokyo, Japan
Ezaguna ere: 加東大介, 加东大介, 市川莚司
Rashomon
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
Askatu : 1950.08.26Ospea : 29.6
Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Askatu : 1956.01.29Ospea : 7.069
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
Askatu : 1961.04.25Ospea : 15.461
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
Askatu : 1961.10.29Ospea : 10.128
Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Askatu : 1952.06.12Ospea : 4.431
The Life of Oharu
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Askatu : 1952.04.17Ospea : 13.596
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
Askatu : 1962.11.03Ospea : 8.578
The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...
Askatu : 1941.12.08Ospea : 13.724
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
Askatu : 1955.01.15Ospea : 9.812
Vendetta of a Samurai
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...
Askatu : 1952.01.03Ospea : 6.455
Hito mo arukeba
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Askatu : 1960.02.09Ospea : 1.966
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...
Askatu : 1949.07.05Ospea : 4.82
Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
Askatu : 1958.05.13Ospea : 4.848
Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...
Askatu : 1955.02.12Ospea : 1.884
The Storm
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Askatu : 1956.10.24Ospea : 2.419
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
Askatu : 1968.08.14Ospea : 4.895
Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Askatu : 1956.02.26Ospea : 2.7
The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...
Askatu : 1960.10.01Ospea : 2.3
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Askatu : 1952.10.09Ospea : 19.363
Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
Askatu : 1956.11.20Ospea : 5.771
Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
Askatu : 1954.06.15Ospea : 2.392
Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Askatu : 1956.01.14Ospea : 3.301
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Askatu : 1960.05.21Ospea : 3.839
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
Askatu : 1958.09.02Ospea : 4.831
A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
Askatu : 1956.05.03Ospea : 3.315
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
Askatu : 1962.09.29Ospea : 7.536
The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
Askatu : 1966.02.12Ospea : 3.688
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...
Askatu : 1949.07.16Ospea : 3.987
Foul Play
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...
Askatu : 1955.01.03Ospea : 2.491
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...
Askatu : 1955.02.27Ospea : 4.73
The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...
Askatu : 1960.03.28Ospea : 3.853
Twilight Saloon
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm...
Askatu : 1955.06.19Ospea : 2.962
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
Askatu : 1960.01.15Ospea : 10.19
Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...
Askatu : 1966.04.16Ospea : 3.78
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Askatu : 1962.01.14Ospea : 4.006
A Woman's Life
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Askatu : 1963.11.16Ospea : 4.509
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Askatu : 1953.04.15Ospea : 2.546
Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Askatu : 1966.10.01Ospea : 2.575
Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...
Askatu : 1967.11.18Ospea : 10.113
Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Askatu : 1961.09.29Ospea : 2.541
A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...
Askatu : 1961.07.01Ospea : 3.082
Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...
Askatu : 1967.01.03Ospea : 1.304
The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...
Askatu : 1968.03.09Ospea : 2.262
Assignment Cloud
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy...
Askatu : 1966.09.17Ospea : 2.287
Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...
Askatu : 1967.06.17Ospea : 2.534
The School of Spies
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...
Askatu : 1966.06.04Ospea : 3.636
Seven Masks of Revenge
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...
Askatu : 1955.07.12Ospea : 3.436
Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...
Askatu : 1957.04.30Ospea : 5.192
Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Askatu : 1962.11.23Ospea : 2.034
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Askatu : 1957.05.28Ospea : 4.983
Superexpress
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...
Askatu : 1964.10.31Ospea : 3.567
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...
Askatu : 1965.01.03Ospea : 3.314
I Want to Be a Shellfish
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...
Askatu : 1959.04.12Ospea : 3.3
Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
Askatu : 1966.11.25Ospea : 3.937
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
Askatu : 1952.11.02Ospea : 2.006
The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
Askatu : 1958.10.28Ospea : 1.198
The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
Askatu : 1951.08.10Ospea : 2.93
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...
Askatu : 1962.11.18Ospea : 14.927
The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...
Askatu : 1966.10.01Ospea : 2.533
The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
Askatu : 1955.08.31Ospea : 1.311
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
Askatu : 1953.11.03Ospea : 1.774
Humanity and Paper Balloons
In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his...
Askatu : 1937.08.25Ospea : 4.879
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
Askatu : 1954.04.26Ospea : 86.673
Itohan Monogatari
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.
Askatu : 1957.01.15Ospea : 1.486
Priest of Darkness
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Askatu : 1936.04.30Ospea : 4.162
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.
Askatu : 1956.03.01Ospea : 2.008
Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
Askatu : 1965.05.29Ospea : 5.541
The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
Askatu : 1954.10.20Ospea : 1.677
Five Gents' Trick Book
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Askatu : 1965.01.03Ospea : 1.566
The Man Who Laughs Last
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...
Askatu : 1949.02.28Ospea : 2.172
The Third President
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Askatu : 1958.03.18Ospea : 2.404
社長太平記
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Askatu : 1959.01.03Ospea : 1.224
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Askatu : 1959.03.15Ospea : 1.984
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Askatu : 1967.08.12Ospea : 5.573
Dorodarake no seishun
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Askatu : 1954.09.21Ospea : 2.244
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
Askatu : 1949.05.10Ospea : 1.954
An Edoite Judge
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
Askatu : 1953.02.05Ospea : 1.608
The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...
Askatu : 1964.07.01Ospea : 3.176
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...
Askatu : 1958.04.29Ospea : 3.661
Star of Hong Kong
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....
Askatu : 1962.07.14Ospea : 3.557
Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
Askatu : 1967.08.05Ospea : 2.249
The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...
Askatu : 1955.09.28Ospea : 1.637
The Abe Clan
“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their loyalty. Only Yaichiemon Abe is refused...
Askatu : 1938.03.01Ospea : 2.86
The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...
Askatu : 1967.04.29Ospea : 2.4
This Greedy Old Skin
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...
Askatu : 1960.09.18Ospea : 2.358
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...
Askatu : 1951.01.13Ospea : 1.285
G-Men of Japan
The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...
Askatu : 1948.10.12Ospea : 4.274
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Askatu : 1952.11.06Ospea : 2.856
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...
Askatu : 1950.01.03Ospea : 2.365
Outlaw island
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...
Askatu : 1956.06.01Ospea : 2.314
Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Askatu : 1957.03.05Ospea : 2.399
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Askatu : 1957.07.19Ospea : 1.788
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Askatu : 1957.12.17Ospea : 2.36
Oban kanketsu hen
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Askatu : 1958.07.01Ospea : 3.149
Kigeki ekimae bentô
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...
Askatu : 1961.12.24Ospea : 1.753
Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Askatu : 1955.10.30Ospea : 4.294
Street of Shame
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Askatu : 1956.03.18Ospea : 7.762
Morning for Two
While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest...
Askatu : 1971.04.01Ospea : 2.348
The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...
Askatu : 1951.06.11Ospea : 4.104
Chikûho no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
Askatu : 1960.11.13Ospea : 2.067
A Spectacular Murder
When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...
Askatu : 1951.01.20Ospea : 2.644
Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Askatu : 1954.09.17Ospea : 2.908
Stairs of Evil
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...
Askatu : 1965.10.23Ospea : 3.26
No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
Askatu : 1955.05.10Ospea : 4.057