Tai Katō — Director (34)
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The Scarlet Cherry Lord (1958)
緋ざくら大名 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Keiko Okawa …
other title: 緋ざくら大名
Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. He saves the life of a princess whom he gets to fall in love with. It turns out that she is just his prospective bride.
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Eight Views of Samurai (1958)
浪人八景 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 浪人八景
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.
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Flower and Dragon (1973)
花と龍・青雲篇、愛憎篇、怒濤篇 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Tetsuya Watari / Yoshiko Kayama …
other title: 花と龍・青雲篇、愛憎篇、怒濤篇
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2 (1958)
源氏九郎颯爽記　白狐二刀流 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Satomi Oka …
other title: 源氏九郎颯爽記　白狐二刀流
Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden treasure of Lord Yoshitsune. When he gives a piece of the treasure to a couple of poor but honest people so they can pay their debts, it attracts the unwanted attention of several dishonest people, such as pirates, greedy merchants and rebels. While the government is fighting a battle for power against rebels and royalists, all want the treasure by any means possible.
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Road Warriors (1960)
あやめ笠 喧嘩街道 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Ryūji Shinagawa / Kyoko Aoyama …
other title: あやめ笠 喧嘩街道
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Ayame 's Gantaro, with the turbulent and exciting Wakizashi Hitoshi .
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Theater Of Life (1972)
人生劇場 青春・愛欲・残侠篇 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Muga Takewaki / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 人生劇場 青春・愛欲・残侠篇
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
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Wind, Woman and Road (1958)
風と女と旅鴉 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 風と女と旅鴉
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are about to be robbed as the two gamblers face off against each other swords in hand.
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Sasuke and His Comedians (1963)
真田風雲録 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Jerry Fujio …
other title: 真田風雲録 / Brave Records of the Sanada Clan
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…