Daisuke Katō — Actor (29)
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
血槍富士
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Daisuke Katō
other title: A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji / Le Mont Fuji et la lance ensanglantée
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
新釈四谷怪談 前篇
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Ken Uehara
other title: 新釈四谷怪談 前篇 / Le Fantôme de Yotsuya
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 devoted to her husband.
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
人情紙風船
director: Sadao Yamanaka actor: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki / Kan'emon Nakamura
other title: L'umanità e i palloni di carta / Pauvres Humains et Ballons de papier
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 pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.
An Autumn Afternoon (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
秋刀魚の味
director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Chishū Ryū / Shima Iwashita
other title: Il gusto del sakè / O Gosto do Saké
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 rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Yojimbo (1961) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
用心棒
7.6 (9 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai
other title: La sfida del samurai / Livvagten
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 local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb Douban
女が階段を上る時
9.3 (7 ratings) director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Masayuki Mori
other title: Quando una donna sale le scale / Quando Uma Mulher Sobe as Escadas
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 around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Rashomon (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Min reol NeoDB TMDB Douban
羅生門
8.1 (18 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshiro Mifune / Machiko Kyō
other title: Dæmonernes port / Às Portas do Inferno
Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, this movie reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.