Gō Katō

biography: Gō Katō (加藤剛, Katō Gō; 4 February 1938 – 18 June 2018) was a Japanese actor.

Sekigahara

overview: Blockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TBS. A total of 120 actors, 3,500 extras and about 500 horses recreated the largest battle in history, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which 200,000 warriors clashed from east and west. The battle, which can be called a turning point in the history of Japan, depicts the conflict, love and hate between people on a grand scale and with a great cast.

character: Mitsunari Ishida

original_name: 関ヶ原

original_language: ja

冤罪シリーズ

character: 若杉徹

original_name: 冤罪シリーズ

Dai Sentai Goggle-V

overview: Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus.

character: Kato

original_name: 大戦隊ゴーグルファイブ

特捜弁護士・橘竜太郎－雪冤の旅－

original_name: 特捜弁護士・橘竜太郎－雪冤の旅－

大岡越前のお年寄りの交通安全

original_name: 大岡越前のお年寄りの交通安全

大岡越前

character: 大岡忠相

original_name: 大岡越前

山村美紗サスペンス 殺意の果てに～飛騨高山夫人絞殺事件～

original_name: 山村美紗サスペンス 殺意の果てに～飛騨高山夫人絞殺事件～

大岡越前　２時間スペシャル

original_name: 大岡越前　２時間スペシャル

Taiyō no Namida

overview: The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa lies to Shoji that he has a son and asks him to do something extraordinary for him...

original_name: 太陽の涙

The Lion Era

overview: It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration in their respective ways of life.

original_name: 獅子の時代

Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow

overview: Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The drama was made by Go Kato`s request. The story chronicles the life of Taira no Masakado . The story begins with Masakado′s childhood. Masakado happens to meet Fujiwara no Hidesato, and he thinks that he want to be great Samurai like Hidesato in the future.

character: Taira no Masakado

original_name: 風と雲と虹と

Mitsumei: Kangetsu Kasumigiri

overview: Sozaburo Kanasugi is a samurai in the Kyushu countryside. After accepting a secret mission from his daimyo, he leaves his clan and travels alone to Edo to accomplish his task.

original_name: 密命 寒月霞斬り

Kenkaku Shōbai

overview: Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people.

original_name: 剣客商売

Clouds Over the Hill

overview:
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first series, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while series two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in series two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the novel Saka no ue no kumo by Ryōtarō Shiba and adopted by Hisashi Nozawa.

The theme song of the drama series is titled "Stand Alone". It was composed by Joe Hisaishi, written by Kundo Koyama and performed by British soprano singer Sarah Brightman.

character: 伊藤博文

original_name: 坂の上の雲

The Lonely Scalpel

overview: The story is set in Sumidagawa Hospital, an emergency hospital in downtown Tokyo. The head of surgery there, Iwashita Ken, is a brain surgeon who has just returned from the United States . He has excellent skills, but his strict personality often makes him the envy of other doctors. He also has a secret past. The story depicts the various facets of the hospital, including the interactions between doctors and patients, the power struggle within the hospital, and Asou Yukie, a recent nursing school graduate who was assigned to the hospital unaware of the complex internal affairs that exist.

original_name: 孤独のメス

Kotoshi no Koi

overview: This cheerful romantic comedy hints at conflicts in a changing society through the friendship between two underachieving teenage boys and the accidental bringing together of their respective siblings.

original_name: 今年の恋

Aoki Ookami Narukichiomoase no Shougai

overview: Tv special that follows the life of Genghis Khan. Adapted from a novel by Yasushi Inoue.

character: 鉄木真（テムジン）

original_name: 蒼き狼 成吉思汗の生涯

Fossil

overview: An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

character: Narrator

original_name: 化石

普通话

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iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

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Gō Katō

biography: Gō Katō (Osaezaki-cho, Japó, 4 de febrer de 1938 - Tòquio, Japó, 18 de juny de 2018) va ser un actor i animador japonès. Va estar casat amb l'actriu Makiko Itō.

iso_639_1: ca

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Catalan

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

普通话

iso_3166_1: HK

also_known_as:
Go Kato
Gou Katou

title: Cape of the North

overview: A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

character: Mitsuo

original_title: 北の岬

title: Death of a Tea Master

overview: Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

character: Oribe Furuta

original_title: 千利休 本覺坊遺文

title: The Long Darkness

overview: The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing their love as a means to overcome the shame and despair inherited from their pasts.

character: Tetsuro

original_title: 忍ぶ川

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

overview: Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

character: Magomura Kanbei

original_title: 子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車

title: The Castle of Sand

overview: Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

character: Eiro Waga

original_title: 砂の器

title: Sword of the Beast

overview: Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

character: Jurata Yamane

original_title: 獣の剣

title: Nihon no aozora

character: Takano Iwasaburo

original_title: 日本の青空

title: Blood End

overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.

character: Genjiro

original_title: 天狗党

title: Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams

overview: Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on foot for 17 years from the age of 55 to perform his surveys. The accuracy of his maps also owed much to the fact that he was the first surveyor in Japan to combine measurements on the ground with observations of the heavens. Ino started the work as a private individual but earned the confidence of the Shogunate and it eventually turned into a national project. His maps were later used for many years as the foundation for maps made by modern survey techniques.

original_title: 伊能忠敬 子午線の夢

title: The Great Passage

overview: Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems.

character: Tomohiro Matsumoto

original_title: 舟を編む

title: A Legend or Was It?

overview: A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

character: Hideyuki Sonobe

original_title: 死闘の伝説

title: The Shadow Within

overview: When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

character: Yukio Hamajima

original_title: 影の車

title: Children of Nagasaki

overview: August 9, 1945.  An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am.  The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

original_title: この子を残して

title: Big Joys, Small Sorrows

overview: A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

original_title: 新・喜びも悲しみも幾歳月

title: The Young Rebels

overview: A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

title: Adan

title: Days with Harasu

overview: The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.

title: Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

overview: Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

title: Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

overview: The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.

original_title: 戦争と人間 第一部「運命の序曲」

title: The Scent of Incense

overview: After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

title: Anne Frank's Diary

overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

title: Jirocho of Shimizu 1: The Glorious Port of Shimizu

overview: Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from Shimizu. All hell breaks loose when Kanbei returns with his older brother, Kitsu An Takei, and Katsuzo challenges Chogoro.

original_title: 清水次郎長(1)　勢揃い清水港

title: A Samurai’s Lie: Beloved Wife

overview: Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife.

title: Assassin's Road

overview: Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many warriors on the roads…  This is the remade drama of “Wakasamamono” written by a popular novelist Tatsuji Satte. Go Kato as Dr. Waka brandishes a sword to come up against the plot of Karo, related to the inheritance of Takane Han.

title: Man on a False Flight

overview: The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...

title: Riot in Gujo

overview: Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.

title: Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”

overview: A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.

original_title: わが愛の譜　滝廉太郎物語

title: Oh, My Son!

overview: A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

title: Amagi Pass

overview: Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.

title: Samurai Rebellion

overview: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.

title: Color Me True

overview: Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.

title: Demon Pond

overview: When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.

title: The Blossom and the Sword

overview: Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

title: The Scarlet Camellia

overview: A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

title: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

title: Long Journey into Love

overview: A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.

title: Winning Pass

overview: This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where he loses the ability to walk. This is the story of his struggle through hardship to regain it all.

title: Yuriko's Picture Book

overview: Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.

original_title: 百合子さんの絵本～陸軍武官小野寺夫婦の戦争～

title: The Fossil

title: The Story of Jiro

overview: Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

title: Kenkaku Shōbai: Tsujigiri

title: Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi

title: Rika

title: Alumni Association

overview: The final chapter of director Mukai Hiroshi's trilogy on the theme of aging, in which "Going West" raised the issue of human memory and "Hometown" addressed the issue of the physical strength of the elderly. "Class Reunion" depicts the "gathering" that fills the feeling of loneliness in daily life. A man who left Japan for a foreign country during the chaos of the post-war period returns home for the first time in 60 years to spend the rest of his life in Japan, embarking on a journey with his former best friend to recapture the days of his youth.

title: The Samurai and the Secret of the Flower

overview: During Ienari Tokugawa's period. Hanakurabe (a playful competition of poetry with flowers in this period) was held to please Shogun (General), and Shiroshobu of the Date family and Higoshobu of the Hosokawa family competed with each other. As a result, the Hosokawa family won and Yahei Tabuki of the Date family killed himself. At the funeral, a beautiful woman (Hibiko Maya) appeared in front of Yahei's son, Yazyuro (Tsuyoshi Kato). The woman said, "I am a woman of the Hosokawa family, and the person who killed your father" and left. To revenge father, he became "Hanaonmitsu" to make a better flower than Higoshobu.

title: Nurses and Doctors

overview: A nurse is caring for a patient in a life and death situation whilst also dealing with her own emotional issues.

title: The Visas That Saved Lives

overview: Dramatization of the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews during World War II by granting them visas, though it cost him his own career.

title: Cape of the North

title: Death of a Tea Master

title: The Long Darkness

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

original_title: 子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車

title: The Castle of Sand

title: Sword of the Beast

title: Nihon no aozora

title: Blood End

title: Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams

title: The Great Passage

title: A Legend or Was It?

title: The Shadow Within

title: Children of Nagasaki

title: Big Joys, Small Sorrows

original_title: 新・喜びも悲しみも幾歳月

title: The Young Rebels

title: Adan

title: Days with Harasu

title: Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

title: Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

original_title: 戦争と人間 第一部「運命の序曲」

title: The Scent of Incense

title: Anne Frank's Diary

original_title: 清水次郎長(1)　勢揃い清水港

title: A Samurai’s Lie: Beloved Wife

title: Assassin's Road

title: Man on a False Flight

title: Riot in Gujo

original_title: わが愛の譜　滝廉太郎物語

title: Oh, My Son!

title: Amagi Pass

title: Samurai Rebellion

title: Color Me True

title: Demon Pond

title: The Blossom and the Sword

title: The Scarlet Camellia

title: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

title: Long Journey into Love

title: Winning Pass

title: Yuriko's Picture Book

original_title: 百合子さんの絵本～陸軍武官小野寺夫婦の戦争～

title: The Fossil

title: The Story of Jiro

title: Kenkaku Shōbai: Tsujigiri

title: Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi

title: Rika

title: Alumni Association

title: Nurses and Doctors

title: The Visas That Saved Lives

特捜弁護士・橘竜太郎－雪冤の旅－

original_name: 特捜弁護士・橘竜太郎－雪冤の旅－

大岡越前のお年寄りの交通安全

original_name: 大岡越前のお年寄りの交通安全

山村美紗サスペンス 殺意の果てに～飛騨高山夫人絞殺事件～

original_name: 山村美紗サスペンス 殺意の果てに～飛騨高山夫人絞殺事件～

大岡越前　２時間スペシャル

original_name: 大岡越前　２時間スペシャル