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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.
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 died on 17 June 1985.
- Tai Katô
- June 17, 1985
- August 24, 1916
Jan 29, 2020 · HONO-O NO GOTOKU (Like a Burning Flame) - During the upheavals of the late Tokugawa period, Bunta Sugawara is a wandering Gambler who is beaten and robbed by the infamous Okada IZO. Seeking revenge against injustice he joins the Shinsengumi. More movies at: https://shinsengumi-archives.tumblr.com/post/189642448776/films. Addeddate.
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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.
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.
May 22, 1998 · The American Cinematheque’s “Song of the Wandering Gambler: The Films of Tai Kato” rediscovers a major Japanese director who’s unfamiliar even to many aficionados.
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By Mark Schilling. Jul 20, 2016. Tai Kato (1916-85) has long ranked high on critics' lists as a neglected director, and the neglect continues, especially overseas.
