Haruko Katō
- Acting
- November 24, 1922 · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
- November 2, 2015
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Majutsu wa Sasayaku
- Veterinarian Dolittle
- About Her Brother · Takano Kinuo
- It's On Me
- Chameleon · Noriko Yamamura
- Awakening · Shigeko Miyasato
- Time Limit Investigator
- Howl's Moving Castle · Madame Suliman (Voice)
- The Crying Wind · Shiho Fujino
- Blooming Again · Sadako Tōyama
- Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement · Takako
- Life Is Journey
- Spy Sorge
- Pistol Opera · Shizuka Orikuchi
- Bonds · Mrs. Soga
- Body and Soul · Ryosuke's mother
- A Brief Message from the Heart
- Secret Liaisons
- Kura
- Sharaku · Ofuji
- Furuhata Ninzaburo · Takayo Sasaki
- Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
- Marriage Begins With A Lie · Arishima Tsuneko
- Ghost Story: Flower House
- Kimi no na wa · 浜口徳枝
- Tasmania Story
- Kaze no Sumu Ie
- The Dancer
- Kiki's Delivery Service · Old Lady (Voice)
- Kizu
- Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
- Umi e, See You · Eiji’s mother
- Onna no Naka no Kaze
- A Taxing Woman's Return · Kinu Akabane
- The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
- Carefree Goddesses
- Tokyo Blackout · Umeko Koide
- 森繁久彌の七人の孫
- The House of Wedlock · Kuniko Sakazaki
- Beyond the Shining Sea · Tomie Kawamura
- Gonza the Spearman · Oyuki's nanny
- Gray Sunset · Kikuyo Takano
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters · Grandmother
- Caribe: Symphony of Love · Fumiko Sawaki
- Capone Cries a Lot · Wife
- Someday, Someone Will Be Killed · Shizu Nagayama
- Deaths in Tokimeki · Otae-san
- Lanterns on Blue Waters
- Something Like It
- The Wild Daisy · Kiku Saito
- Yumechiyo Nikki
- 芭蕉布を織る女たち · Narrator (Voice)
- The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
- 突然の明日
- Ashura no Gotoku
- Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu · Shuzuko dojima
- Kyukei no Koya · Takako Nogami
- Sweet Revenge · Yoshiko Otsuka
- Love in the Mud
- Seasonal Wind
- Fuyu no Undokai
- Hobo General
- Love Is a Hunter · Keiko Asada
- Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
- First Love
- Sword and Flower
- なんたって18歳！
- The Gambling Nun
- Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori · Aunt
- The Girl I Abandoned
- A Thousand and One Nights · Genie (Voice)
- 若い川の流れ
- East China Sea · Rokurō's mother
- 春日和
- Young Girls Are Everywhere · Muneko Eda
- Camellia Gate
- Green Fruit
- Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii · Shizue Funada
- Kaze to Ki to Sora to
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki