The best Takeshi Katō’s comedy movies

Takeshi Katō

Takeshi Katō

24/05/1929- 31/07/2015
Today we present the best Takeshi Katō’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Takeshi Katō’s movies.

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress
8.1/10
Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding in a fortress. Although the peasants don't know that Rokurota is a general and Yuki is a princess, the peasants agree to accompany the pair to safety in return for gold. Along the way, the general must prove his expertise in battle while also hiding his identity.

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships
7.5/10
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy
6.9/10
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/07/1957
  • Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

The Gambling Monk

The Gambling Monk
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/10/1963
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/08/2001
  • Character: Managing Director Akiyama
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.

Dora-heita

Dora-heita
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/2000
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
6.4/10
Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega corporation called Catty & Co., she crashes on the violence-ridden Planet Q where she meets Michelangelo. Together they have fun, while Tamala seaches for her connections to Catty & Co. and her mysterious homeworld Orion

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Marriage Counselor Tora-san
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/08/1984
  • Character: Kingo
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.

Location

Location
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/09/1984
  • Character: Hara
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Tale of Japanese Burglars
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/05/1965
  • Character: Public prosecutor Tamura
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Across a Gold Prairie

Across a Gold Prairie
7.3/10
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.

This Madding Crowd

This Madding Crowd
7.4/10

Room for Let

Room for Let
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1959
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

The First Catch

The First Catch
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/12/1980
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

Free and Easy 10

Free and Easy 10
5.5/10
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Free and Easy 4

Free and Easy 4
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1991
  • Character: Akiyama
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

Free and Easy 5

Free and Easy 5
7.2/10
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

Neon taiheiki

Neon taiheiki

The Lucky General

The Lucky General
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/08/1962
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.

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