Haruko Katō
Actor
November 24, 1922 — November 2, 2015 (92 years)
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 attending the Shochiku Girls' Opera School, she joined the Shochiku Girls' Opera Company under the stage name Kyoko Mifune. She was signed by the film production company Toho in 1939, making her film debut in Hanatsumi Nikki that same year. In 1940, she joined the New Theatre Research Society, which had been founded by Hiroshi Akutagawa and Michio Kato, whom she married in 1946.
Haruko Katō was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After attending the Shochiku Girls' Opera School, she joined the Shochiku Girls' Opera Company under the stage name Kyoko Mifune. She was signed by the film production company Toho in 1939, making her film debut in Hanatsumi Nikki that same year. In 1940, she joined the New Theatre Research Society, which had been founded by Hiroshi Akutagawa and Michio Kato, whom she married in 1946.
Known For
Filmography
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | About Her Brother · as Takano Kinuo |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Ani kaeru · as Tae Osada |
| 2008 | Chameleon · as Noriko Yamamura |
| 2008 | Still Walking · as Fusa Nishizawa |
| 2008 | Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow · as Kita Shizuko |
| 2007 | South Bound · as Cast |
| 2006 | Awakening · as Shigeko Miyasato |
| 2006 | The Mamiya Brothers · as Grandmother |
| 2006 | Iryu Team Medical Dragon · as Sasaki Fumiko |
| 2006 | |
| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle · as Madame Suliman (voice) |
| 2004 | The Crying Wind · as Shiho Fujino |
| 2004 | Shinibana · as Sadako Tōyama |
| 2003 | Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement · as Takako |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Teacher's Bag (Sensei No Kaban) · as Cast |
| 2001 | Pistol Opera · as Shizuka Orikuchi |
| 1998 | Kizuna · as Mrs. Soga |
| 1997 | Body and Soul · as Ryosuke's Mother |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Sharaku · as Ofuji |
| 1994 | Lieutenant Ninzaburo Furuhata · as Takayo Sasaki |
| 1991 | Kimi no na wa · as 浜口徳枝 |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1989 | Kiki's Delivery Service · as Old Lady (voice) |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | Umi e · as Eiji’s Mother |
| 1988 | A Taxing Woman's Return · as Kinu Akabane |
| 1987 | Shuto shôshitsu · as Umeko Koide |
| 1986 | Gonza the Spearman · as Oyuki's Nanny |
| 1985 | Gray Sunset · as Kikuyo Takano |
| 1985 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters · as Grandmother |
| 1985 | Caribe: Symphony of Love · as Fumiko Sawaki |
| 1985 | Capone Cries a Lot · as Wife |
| 1984 | Someday, Someone Will Be Killed · as Shizu Nagayama |
| 1984 | MacArthur's Children · as Haru Ashigara |
| 1984 | Deaths in Tokimeki · as Otae-San |
| 1983 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | The Wild Daisy · as Kiku Saito |
| 1979 | |
| 1977 | Sweet Revenge · as Yoshiko Otsuka |
| 1977 | Saigo no jigazô · as Yuriko Kozuka |
| 1977 | |
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | He's Like a Devil · as Woman On A Train |
| 1974 | |
| 1972 | |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | A Thousand & One Nights · as Genie (voice) |
| 1968 | East China Sea · as Rokurō's Mother |
| 1965 | Ooi, kumo! · as Cast |
| 1964 | Yume no Hawaii de bon odori · as Shizue Funada |
| 1964 | Kaze to ki to sora to · as Cast |
| 1953 |
| 1988 | Making of 'A Taxing Woman 2' · as Self |