Shigeo Katō
Birthday: 1925-06-16
Place of Birth: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Rhapsody in August
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...
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Space Amoeba
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to t...
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Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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The Blossom and the Sword
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros...
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Oban kanketsu hen
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bun...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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Too Young to Die
A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man wit...
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Lake of Dracula
A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years la...
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The Vampire Doll
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her b...
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Judge and Jeopardy
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headles...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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ESPY
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesa...
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The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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The H-Man
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police que...
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Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...
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Battle in Outer Space
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur nam...
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The Return of Godzilla
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a re...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Beauty in Rope Hell
A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps ...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...
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The Corporation
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion o...
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Lullaby of the Earth
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is su...
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai ...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol...
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A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s ...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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