Gō Katō
Birthday: Born in 1938-02-04 in Osaezaki-cho, Shizuoka, Japan
Deathday: 2018-06-18
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関ヶ原
Character: Mitsunari Ishida
Blockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TBS. A total of 120 actors, 3,500 extras and about 500 horses recreated the largest battle in history, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which 200,000 warriors clashed from east and west. The battle, which can be called a turning point in the history of Japan, depicts the conflict, love and hate between people on a grand scale and with a great cast....
大戦隊ゴーグルファイブ
Character: Kato
Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus....
特捜弁護士・橘竜太郎－雪冤の旅－
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大岡越前のお年寄りの交通安全
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大岡越前
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大岡越前 ２時間スペシャル
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太陽の涙
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The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa lies to Shoji that he has a son and asks him to do something extraordinary for him......
風と雲と虹と
Character: Taira no Masakado
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The drama was made by Go Kato`s request. The story chronicles the life of Taira no Masakado . The story begins with Masakado′s childhood. Masakado happens to meet Fujiwara no Hidesato, and he thinks that he want to be great Samurai like Hidesato in the future....
獅子の時代
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It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration in their respective ways of life....
密命 寒月霞斬り
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Sozaburo Kanasugi is a samurai in the Kyushu countryside. After accepting a secret mission from his daimyo, he leaves his clan and travels alone to Edo to accomplish his task....
剣客商売
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Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people....
坂の上の雲
Character: 伊藤博文
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first series, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while series two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in series two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the novel Saka no ue no kumo by Ryōtarō Shiba and adopted by His...
孤独のメス
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The story is set in Sumidagawa Hospital, an emergency hospital in downtown Tokyo. The head of surgery there, Iwashita Ken, is a brain surgeon who has just returned from the United States . He has excellent skills, but his strict personality often makes him the envy of other doctors. He also has a secret past. The story depicts the various facets of the hospital, including the interactions between doctors and patients, the power struggle within the hospital, and Asou Yukie, a recent nursing schoo...
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Cape of the North
Character: Mitsuo
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer....
Death of a Tea Master
Character: Oribe Furuta
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death....
The Long Darkness
Character: Tetsuro
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north....
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Character: Magomura Kanbei
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain....
The Castle of Sand
Character: Eiro Waga
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard....
Sword of the Beast
Character: Jurata Yamane
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name a...
Nihon no aozora
Character: Takano Iwasaburo
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Blood End
Character: Genjiro
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate....
Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams
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Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on foot for 17 years from the age of 55 to perform his surveys. The accuracy of his maps also owed much to the fact that he was the first surveyor in Japan to combine measurements on the ground with observations of the heavens. Ino started the work as a private individual but earned the confidence of the Shogunate and it eventually turned into a national...
The Great Passage
Character: Tomohiro Matsumoto
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems....
A Legend, or Was It?
Character: Hideyuki Sonobe
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove....
The Shadow Within
Character: Yukio Hamajima
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him....
Children of Nagasaki
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August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family....
Big Joys, Small Sorrows
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A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father....
The Young Rebels
Character: Journalist
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents....
Adan
Character: Sumitomo
Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson...
Days with Harasu
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The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog....
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Character: Tatsuo Hattori
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition....
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Character: Tatsuo Hattori
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria....
The Scent of Incense
Character: Ezaki
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble....
Anne Frank's Diary
Character: Otto Frank
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands....
A Samurai’s Lie: Beloved Wife
Character: Isozoemon
Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife....
Assassin's Road
Character: Toma
Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many warriors on the roads… This is the remade drama of “Wakasamamono” written by ...
Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
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A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend....
Oh, My Son!
Character: Nakatani
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
Amagi Pass
Character: Doctor
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself....
Samurai Rebellion
Character: Yogoro Sasahara
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back....
Color Me True
Character: Old Man in Hospital Room
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie....
Demon Pond
Character: Akira Hagiwara
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands....
The Blossom and the Sword
Character: Toyohiko Kagawa
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people....
The Scarlet Camellia
Character: Aoki
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her....
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Character: Ookubo
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan....
Long Journey into Love
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A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono....
Winning Pass
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This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where he loses the ability to walk. This is the story of his struggle through hardship to regain it all....
Yuriko's Picture Book
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Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in...
The Fossil
Character: Narrator
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series ...
The Story of Jiro
Character: 俊亮
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children....
Kenkaku Shōbai: Tsujigiri
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Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people....
Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi
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Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people....
Rika
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