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Tai Kato (加藤 泰, Katō Tai, August 24, 1916—June 17, 1985) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was best known for making yakuza films at the Toei Company in 1960s. [2]
Tai Katô. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Rashomon. Tai Katô was born on 24 August 1916 in Kobe, Japan. Tai was a director and writer, known for Rashomon (1950), Nihon kyôka den (1973) and Jinsei gekijô (1972).
- Tai Katô
- June 17, 1985
- August 24, 1916
Tai Katō was a Japanese film director, writer and assistant director who worked on many jidaigeki and samurai films. He was the nephew of Sadao Yamanaka and worked with Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon.
Every feature film by Tai Kato I've seen rated and reviewed in chronological order. A sadly still somewhat obscure, but extremely talented genre filmmaker, who made some of the greatest jidai-geki and yakuza films of the 1960s and 1970s. Stylistically, Tai Kato was one of the most unique and ambitious visual storytellers of genre cinema. Over the course of a long career directing male-oriented ...
May 22, 1998 · May 22, 1998 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. The American Cinematheque’s “Song of the Wandering Gambler: The Films of Tai Kato” rediscovers a major Japanese director who’s unfamiliar even to ...
Tai Kato (1916-85) has long ranked high on critics' lists as a neglected director, and the neglect continues, especially overseas. Despite the occasional screening abroad, starting with a showing ...
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Director: Tai Katô | Star: Ondekoza. Votes: 93. 5. Kutsukake Tokijiro - yukyo ippiki (1966) 90 min | Action, Adventure, History. 7.5. Rate this. According to the code of the gamblers, Tokijiro, though he dislikes killing, has to join in the fighting when afforded a night's stay and meals at the home of a town boss.
