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Takeshi Katō (actor)

Takeshi Katō
Born (1929-05-24)24 May 1929
Tokyo, Japan
Died 31 July 2015(2015-07-31) (aged 86)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Actor
Years active 1954-2015

Takeshi Katō (加藤 武 Katō Takeshi?, 24 May 1929 – 31 July 2015) was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

Graduating from Waseda University, Katō first became a middle school teacher, but then joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1952. Beyond appearing in and directing plays on stage, he also appeared in films by such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shohei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa, and Kiriro Urayama.

He died on 31 July 2015 after collapsing in a sauna.


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