Haruko Katō

Born: 1922-11-24

Haruko Katō (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katō was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in Hanatsumi Nikki in the same year.


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Howl's Moving Castle

as Madame Suliman (voice)
Released: 2004-09-09

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and...

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Kiki's Delivery Service

as Old Lady (voice)
Released: 1989-07-29

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community...

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

as Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")
Released: 1985-09-20

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...

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A Thousand and One Nights

as Genie (voice)
Released: 1969-06-14

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...

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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement

as Takako
Released: 2003-08-30

A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he...

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Pistol Opera

as Shizuka Orikuchi
Released: 2001-10-27

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by...

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A Taxing Woman's Return

as Kinu Akabane
Released: 1988-01-15

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...

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Majutsu wa Sasayaku

as uncredited
Released: 2011-09-09

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three...

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About Her Brother

as Takano Kinuo
Released: 2010-01-30

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing,...

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Love in the Mud

as uncredited
Released: 1977-07-30

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in...

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Gonza the Spearman

as Oyuki's nanny
Released: 1986-01-15

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...

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Chameleon

as uncredited
Released: 2008-07-05

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the...

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Capone Cries a Lot

as Wife
Released: 1985-02-16

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...

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Sweet Revenge

as Yoshiko Otsuka
Released: 1977-12-17

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...

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Sharaku

as Ofuji
Released: 1995-06-02

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...

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Bonds

as Mrs. Soga
Released: 1998-06-06

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to...

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Tasmania Story

as uncredited
Released: 1990-06-21

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...

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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed

as uncredited
Released: 1984-10-10

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

as uncredited
Released: 1953-11-23

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...

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Tokyo Blackout

as Umeko Koide
Released: 1987-01-16

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped...

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A Brief Message from the Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1995-11-23

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

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It's On Me

as uncredited
Released: 2009-10-31

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki...

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Awakening

as Shigeko Miyasato
Released: 2007-01-27

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...

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Green Fruit

as uncredited
Released: 1964-08-22

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former...

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Till Tomorow Comes

as uncredited
Released: 1962-02-10

1962 Japanese movie

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若い川の流れ

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-14

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...

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East China Sea

as Rokurō's mother
Released: 1968-10-05

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the...

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Body and Soul

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-18

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share...

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Beyond the Shining Sea

as Tomie Kawamura
Released: 1986-07-12

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...

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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-16

1962 Japanese movie

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Deaths in Tokimeki

as Otae-san
Released: 1984-02-18

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting...

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Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii

as Shizue Funada
Released: 1964-08-01

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes...

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Shinibana

as Sadako Tōyama
Released: 2004-05-08

After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled...

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The Wild Daisy

as Kiku Saito
Released: 1981-08-08

Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of...

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Kaze to Ki to Sora to

as uncredited
Released: 1964-07-12

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of...

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Gray Sunset

as Kikuyo Takano
Released: 1985-10-10

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...

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Caribe: Symphony of Love

as Fumiko Sawaki
Released: 1985-04-13

Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan

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Seasonal Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1977-07-16

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his...

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The Dancer

as uncredited
Released: 1989-10-12

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes...

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Life Is Journey

as uncredited
Released: 2003-06-21

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn...

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The Girl I Abandoned

as uncredited
Released: 1969-09-03

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...

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Spy Sorge

as uncredited
Released: 2003-06-14

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...

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The Crying Wind

as Shiho Fujino
Released: 2004-07-31

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his...

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Hobo General

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-24

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Something Like It

as uncredited
Released: 1981-09-12

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first...

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Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori

as Aunt
Released: 1971-07-10

Based on Shinichi Mori song

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Young Girls Are Everywhere

as Muneko Eda
Released: 1966-04-03

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Kizu

as uncredited
Released: 1988-11-03

Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new...

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Life Begins at 61

as uncredited
Released: 1941-04-22

Japanese war-era film

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Sword and Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1972-04-14

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari)...

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Flower Picking Diary

as uncredited
Released: 1939-10-21

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different...

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The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1987-08-24

Japanese horror movie from 1987.

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Furuhata Ninzaburo

as Takayo Sasaki
First aired: 1994-04-13

Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from...

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Time Limit Investigator

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-01-13

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...

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Kimi no na wa

as 浜口徳枝
First aired: 1991-04-02

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

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Veterinarian Dolittle

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-10-17

Tottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase...

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Ashura no Gotoku

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-01-13

Kuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that...

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Yumechiyo Nikki

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-02-15

Yumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When...

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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-05-21

Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...

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なんたって18歳!

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-10-05

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Kyukei no Koya

as Takako Nogami
First aired: 1978-03-11

Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the...

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Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu

as Shuzuko dojima
First aired: 1978-11-21

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Marriage Begins With A Lie

as Arishima Tsuneko
First aired: 1993-04-14

The story follows Ryota Mizusawa, a kitchen unit salesman, and Masumi Sakaki, a hand model and...

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Terauchi Kantarō Ikka

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-17

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