Yoshi Katō

Biography

Career Overview

Yoshi Katō has 278 screen credits in a career dating back to 1948. Their work spans 22 cinematic universes — most prominently Police Precinct Collection with 5 titles. Signature works include Hometown, Girl in College, The Scarlet Camellia. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

278

Birth Date

1913-01-12 00:00:00

Birth Place

Tokyo, Japan

Known For

• 

  Hometown
• 

  Girl in College
• 

  The Scarlet Camellia
• 

  Sendō shimai
• 

  Hokusai
• 

  A Fugitive from the Past

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 22 universes

• Police Precinct Collection (5 titles)
• Gambler Collection (3 titles)
• Lone Wolf and Cub (2 titles)
• Otoko no monsho Collection (2 titles)
• Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life Collection (2 titles)
• Hell Series (Chiezo Kataoka) (2 titles)
• Bannai Tarao series (2 titles)
• The Shogun's Vault Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Etsuko Ichihara (2 collaborations)
• Genji Kawai (2 collaborations)
• Akikane Sawa (2 collaborations)
• Gōzō Sōma (2 collaborations)
• Hajime Kubo (2 collaborations)
• Ryō Suga (2 collaborations)
• Sachiko Hidari (2 collaborations)
• Hidesuke Sone (2 collaborations)
• Sakae Shima (2 collaborations)
• Kyoko Shinobazu (2 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (278 credits)

  • The Yen Family

    Tokijiro

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Hachiko

    Kondo

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Spectacle of Buds

    Minamoto

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Tampopo

    Noodle-making Master

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Dangerous Women

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Hometown

    Denzo

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • The Shootout

    Seisaku Araki

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Ekisutora

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • A Woman in Danger

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • The Black Hood

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Aoba gakuen monogatari

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • The Terrifying Man-eating Shark Woman

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • May Love Be Restored

    Shogen

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Hunter in the Dark

    Zenzaemon

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • The Inferno

    Haruichi Yamao

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

    Kunio Takagi

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Vengeance Is Mine

    Kyohei Kawashima

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Devil's Flute

    Jido

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Rika

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Ore wa Ueno no puresurī

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Lord Mito

    Taibei

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Fall of Ako Castle

    Yahei Horibe

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Demon

    Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Okinawa War of Ten Years

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • I Am A Man of Honor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Ballad of Orin

    Isuke

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Village of Eight Gravestones

    Igawa Ushimatsu

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Mount Hakkoda

    Sakuemon

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • The Corporation

    Harada

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Dragon Princess

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • A Bird of Africa

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Main Line to Terror

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Solar Eclipse

    Chief Public Prosecutor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

    Old Man

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Great Jailbreak

    Kazami

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Without Complaint

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Virgin Blues

    Chiaki's father

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Castle of Sand

    Chiyokichi Motoura

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Beast Shall Die

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Key

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Himiko

    Ohkimi

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

    Kuroda Naritaka

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Men and War III: The Final Chapter

    Koichiro Amemiya

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Miyamoto Musashi

    Sado Nagaoka

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

    Choji Otomo

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Internal Sleuth

    Etsuko's Father-in-Law

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • The Wanderers

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

    Michinari Shibatsuji

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • The Fearless Avenger

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • My Voiceless Friends

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

    Danjô Tonami

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Silence

    Old man

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Blood Vendetta

    Kōnosuke Ushio

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Patience Has An End

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Blood for Blood

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • A Woman Called En

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Challenge at Dawn

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • 花も実もある為五郎

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Shadow of Deception

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Just for You

    Takita

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Inside a Girl's Dormitory

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • The All-Out Game

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • An Ode to Yakuza

    Taisuke Inumaru, Akane's Father

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Sex Revolution

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Blind Woman's Curse

    Jutaro Mitsui

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Okinawa

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • River Without a Bridge Part 2

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Rainbow Over Paris

    Priest

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Kanto Street Peddlers: Clan Violent Loyalty

    Tokujiro Kuranari

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Gambling Den Desire

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Married Woman: Another Law of the Night

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Sea Anemone

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Bloody Territories

    Kôjirô Oonogi, Oonogi Clan boss

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Japan Organized Crime Boss

    Yasokichi Kamiyama

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Broken Swords

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Double Suicide

    Gosaemon

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Only Child

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Big, Big Fellow

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Girl in College

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Profound Desires of the Gods

    Ryugen Ryu

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Escape Man

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Sister Gamblers

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Black Ninja

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Young Boss, Fugitive

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Woman Gambler

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Portrait of Chieko

    Sokichi Naganuma

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Rebellion of Japan

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Inochi hateru hi made

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Great White Tower

    Professor Ōkōchi

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Ohana han: Dai ni bu

    Heizo Asao

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Ohana han

    Heizo Asao

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Seven Gamblers

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Betrayal

    Makabe

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • A Chain of Islands

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Witness' Chair

    Chief of the Human Rights Protection Division, Okamoto

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Tale of Japanese Burglars

    Lawyer Fujimoto

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Tokyo Untouchable

    Ryosuke Hosokawa

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • A Fugitive from the Past

    Yae's Father

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

    水野忠政

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Gamblers and Racketeers

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Police Precinct: Missing Person

    Kawahara

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Scarlet Camellia

    Kihei Musashiya

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

    Temple priest

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Revenge

    Denbei Niwa

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Glamorous Ghost

    Hospital Guard

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Giant Rumble

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Gambler

    Shingo Hamamura

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Intentions of Murder

    Seizo Takahashi

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Sharks

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Frolic of the Beasts

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Dear Mr. Prime Minister

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

    Sasaki Jyuemon

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • A Public Benefactor

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Life of Hishakaku 3

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Third Ninja

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Jinsei Gekijo

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

    Detective

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Fight of the Gamblers

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Dragon Crest

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Okashina yatsu

    Tamekichi Takamizu

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Gambling Monk

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Prince of Wolves

    Bungorô

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Blackmail

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Navy

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • A Legend or Was It?

    Shintaro Shimizu

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • At the Side of the Bridge 4

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Police Precinct Part 22: Teenage Footsteps

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Tale of Army Brutality

    Seikichi, Yahichi's father

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

    Makino Bingo no kami

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • To Your Majesty, The Emperor

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

    Takahiro Hori

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Sunshine Girl

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Seven Detectives: Find the Woman

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Life of Hishakaku

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • An Actor's Revenge

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Ninja, A Band of Assassins

    Yozo

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Gang vs. G-Men

    Detective Ogata

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Farm Girls

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • At the Side of the Bridge 2

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Betting on the Sword

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • I. George monogatari taiyō no ko

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Demon of Sendai's Castle

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Tokyo's Business District

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Mid-August Commotion

    Director General of Information Bureau

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Sentencer

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • At the Side of the Bridge

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Love Under the Crucifix

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Tokyo Bay

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Kiriko no unmei

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Mad Fox

    Shoji

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Mother Country

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Broken Commandment

    Ushimatsu's uncle

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Injured Boy

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Christian Revolt

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Catch

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Immortal Love

    Sojiro

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Fateful Birthplace

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Haitoku no mesu

    Hayashi

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Man with the Funky Hat

    Kogure

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Koi no gashū

    Morihara

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • 北上川悲歌

    Kihachi Yamaguchi

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Tale of a Company Boss

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Zero Focus

    Mr. Murota

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Harbor Lights

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Incidental Murders

    Kimiteru Soga

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Mahiru no wana

    Detective

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • If You're Man Enough

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • World War III Breaks Out

    沢本耕三

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The River Fuefuki

    Ojii

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Challenge Beneath the Waves

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Last Trump Card

    Shigeji Hoshino

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Brass General

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Sand City in Manchuria

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Won't Stand for Dying

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Man of Seven Faces

    Officer Kihara

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • White Cliffs

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Delinquent Angel

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Great Road

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Ayausgî G-Man - ânkoku gai no yagû

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Police Precinct Part 12

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Speed Crazy

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Four Hours of Terror

    Kobayashi

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Tokyo Detective Girl

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • A Dead Drifter

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Hahakogusa

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • A Man's Dark Finger

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Outsiders

    Sugita

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Points and Lines

    Jutaro Toriumi

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • The Sword Knows

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Detective Duel

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Police Precinct Part 7

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Night Drum

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Wind, Woman and Road

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • No Advice Taken

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Glorious Standard Bearer

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Eleventh Hour

    Sunaga

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Story of Pure Love

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Ghost Ship Part 2

    Gensai Ihara

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Showdown in Blood

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Sekki shichihenge

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Sendō shimai

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend

    The Fiend with Twenty Faces

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Case of Young Lord 5: Death of a Beauty at Midnight

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • 続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Rice

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Case of a Young Lord 4: Bridal Robe in Blood

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer

    Sakata Goro

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Mother Peacock

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Manchurian Sunset

    Tokimune

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Meiken monogatari

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Where's Paradise?

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Darkness at Noon

    Oshima

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Avalanche

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • 鍔鳴浪人

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Lightning Karate Blow

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Samurai of the Great Earth

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Yukiko

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Seven Masks of Revenge

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • The Further Adventures of Genta

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Sisters

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

    Lieutenant Ishimaru

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • 八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線

    大月忠馬

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Foul Play

    Chief Inspector Udagawa

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Fall of the Shogun's Militia

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • A Billionaire

    Sanpeita Den

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Wakai hito-tachi

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Pleasures of Vice

    Police officer

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Ditch

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Street Without Sun

    Ishizuka

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Tomoshibi

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The End of a Day

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Hiroshima

    Hideo Endo

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • At the End of the Clouds

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

    Kaminari-san

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Tower of Lilies

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Hokusai

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Vacuum Zone

    Lieutenant Hayashi

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Castle of Revenge

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Miss Hanaogi and Santa

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Aru yoru no dekigoto

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Become a Mother, Become a Woman

    Principal

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • Tales of a Drifter

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • 限りなき情熱

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • A Man from Akagi

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Fencing Master

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Kagebōshi

    日向一角

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Kyō ware renaisu

    actor

    actors
    1949
  • Apostasy

    actor

    actors
    1948
  • The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

    actor

    actors
    1948