
Haruko Katou
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 24, 1922
- Died
- November 2, 2015 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Haruko Katou (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katou 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 Katou, whom she married in 1946.
Known For
Filmography

Majutsu wa Sasayaku
Movie

About Her Brother
Movie · as Takano Kinuo

Veterinarian Dolittle
TV · 1 ep

It's On Me
Movie

Chameleon
Movie · as Noriko Yamamura

Awakening
Movie · as Shigeko Miyasato

Time Limit Investigator
TV · 1 ep

Blooming Again
Movie · as Sadako Tōyama

Howl's Moving Castle
Movie · as Madame Suliman (voice)

The Crying Wind
Movie · as Shiho Fujino

Spy Sorge
Movie

Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
Movie · as Takako

Life Is Journey
Movie

Pistol Opera
Movie · as Shizuka Orikuchi

Bonds
Movie · as Mrs. Soga

Body and Soul
Movie · as Ryosuke's mother

Secret Liaisons
Movie

A Brief Message from the Heart
Movie

Sharaku
Movie · as Ofuji

Kura
Movie

Furuhata Ninzaburo
TV · as Takayo Sasaki · 1 ep

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
TV · 1 ep

Marriage Begins With A Lie
TV · as Arishima Tsuneko · 12 eps
Ghost Story: Flower House
Movie

Kimi no na wa
TV · as 浜口徳枝 · 312 eps

Tasmania Story
Movie

Kiki's Delivery Service
Movie · as Old Lady (voice)

The Dancer
Movie
Kaze no Sumu Ie
Movie

A Taxing Woman's Return
Movie · as Kinu Akabane
Onna no Naka no Kaze
Movie

Kizu
Movie

Umi e, See You
Movie · as Eiji’s mother
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
Movie

Tokyo Blackout
Movie · as Umeko Koide

The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
Movie

Carefree Goddesses
Movie
森繁久彌の七人の孫
TV · 1 ep

Gonza the Spearman
Movie · as Oyuki's nanny

Beyond the Shining Sea
Movie · as Tomie Kawamura

The House of Wedlock
Movie · as Kuniko Sakazaki

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Movie · as Grandmother

Gray Sunset
Movie · as Kikuyo Takano

Capone Cries a Lot
Movie · as Wife

Caribe: Symphony of Love
Movie · as Fumiko Sawaki

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Movie · as Shizu Nagayama

Deaths in Tokimeki
Movie · as Otae-san

Lanterns on Blue Waters
Movie

The Wild Daisy
Movie · as Kiku Saito

Something Like It
Movie

芭蕉布を織る女たち
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Yumechiyo Nikki
TV · 20 eps
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Movie

突然の明日
TV · 13 eps

Ashura no Gotoku
TV · 7 eps

Kyukei no Koya
TV · as Takako Nogami · 1 ep

Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
TV · as Shuzuko dojima · 21 eps

Seasonal Wind
Movie

Love in the Mud
Movie

Sweet Revenge
Movie · as Yoshiko Otsuka

Fuyu no Undokai
TV · 10 eps

Hobo General
Movie

Love Is a Hunter
Movie · as Keiko Asada

Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
TV · 1 ep

Sword and Flower
Movie

First Love
Movie

Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Movie · as Aunt
The Gambling Nun
Movie

なんたって18歳!
TV · 1 ep

A Thousand and One Nights
Movie · as Genie (voice)

The Girl I Abandoned
Movie

East China Sea
Movie · as Rokurō's mother

若い川の流れ
Movie

春日和
Movie

Young Girls Are Everywhere
Movie · as Muneko Eda

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Movie · as Shizue Funada

Green Fruit
Movie

Kaze to Ki to Sora to
Movie

Camellia Gate
Movie

Till Tomorrow Is
Movie

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Movie

Pilgrimage at Night
Movie · as Maid at Kyoto Inn

The Mandarin Room
Movie · as Namiko

Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
Movie

An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie

The Love Letter Trial
Movie

Sky of Hope
Movie · as Toshiko

Currents of Youth
Movie · as Girl in a tea room

Life Begins at 61
Movie

Wedding Day
Movie

Enoken Enters the Ring
Movie

Enoken's Bow-Wow General
Movie · as Teruko

Flower Picking Diary
Movie
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Movie