Haruko Katou
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Howl's Moving Castle
Madame Suliman (voice)
2004
Series
Kimi no na wa
浜口徳枝
1991
Film
Kiki's Delivery Service
Old Lady (voice)
1989
Series
Furuhata Ninzaburo
Takayo Sasaki
1994
Series
Time Limit Investigator
2006
Film
A Thousand and One Nights
Genie (voice)
1969
Film
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Grandmother
1985
Series
Yumechiyo Nikki
1981
Series
Veterinarian Dolittle
2010
Series
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
Shuzuko dojima
1978
Series
Marriage Begins With A Lie
Arishima Tsuneko
1993
Series
Ashura no Gotoku
1979
Series
Fuyu no Undokai
1977
Series
突然の明日
1980
Series
Kyukei no Koya
Takako Nogami
1978
Film
Capone Cries a Lot
Wife
1985
森繁久彌の七人の孫
1987
Film
Sharaku
Ofuji
1995
Series
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993
Series
Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
1974
Film
Tokyo Blackout
Umeko Koide
1987
Film
A Taxing Woman's Return
Kinu Akabane
1988
Film
Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
Takako
2003
Film
Spy Sorge
2003
Series
なんたって18歳！
1971
Film
Body and Soul
Ryosuke's mother
1997
Film
Gonza the Spearman
Oyuki's nanny
1986
Film
The Girl I Abandoned
1969
Film
About Her Brother
Takano Kinuo
2010
Film
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Film
Tasmania Story
1990
Film
It's On Me
2009
Film
Love in the Mud
1977
Film
Kizu
1988
Film
The House of Wedlock
Kuniko Sakazaki
1986
Film
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2011
Film
The Dancer
1989
Film
A Brief Message from the Heart
1995
Film
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Film
Gray Sunset
Kikuyo Takano
1985
Film
Hobo General
1976
Film
The Wild Daisy
Kiku Saito
1981
Film
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Shizue Funada
1964
Film
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1962
Film
Chameleon
Noriko Yamamura
2008
Film
Camellia Gate
1964
Film
Pistol Opera
Shizuka Orikuchi
2001
Film
Sweet Revenge
Yoshiko Otsuka
1977
Film
Life Is Journey
2003
Film
Bonds
Mrs. Soga
1998
Film
Something Like It
1981
Film
Awakening
Shigeko Miyasato
2007
Film
Umi e, See You
Eiji’s mother
1988
Film
Wedding Day
1940
Film
First Love
1972
Film
春日和
1967
Film
Secret Liaisons
1995
Film
Deaths in Tokimeki
Otae-san
1984
Film
The Crying Wind
Shiho Fujino
2004
Film
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964
Film
Pilgrimage at Night
Maid at Kyoto Inn
1959
Film
Currents of Youth
Girl in a tea room
1942
Film
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Ghost Story: Flower House
1991
Film
Young Girls Are Everywhere
Muneko Eda
1966
Film
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Film
Sky of Hope
Toshiko
1942
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939
Film
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
Film
The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
1987
Film
East China Sea
Rokurō's mother
1968
Film
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Shizu Nagayama
1984
Film
Green Fruit
1964
Film
Seasonal Wind
1977
Film
Kura
1995
Film
Sword and Flower
1972
Film
Carefree Goddesses
1987
Kaze no Sumu Ie
1989
Film
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Fumiko Sawaki
1985
Film
Beyond the Shining Sea
Tomie Kawamura
1986
Film
Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Aunt
1971
Film
The Mandarin Room
Namiko
1956
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Film
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
Teruko
1940
The Gambling Nun
1971
Onna no Naka no Kaze
1988
Film
Flower Picking Diary
1939
Film
Enoken Enters the Ring
1940
Film
若い川の流れ
1968
Film
Love Is a Hunter
Keiko Asada
1976
Film
芭蕉布を織る女たち
Narrator (voice)
1981
Film
Blooming Again
Sadako Tōyama
2004
Film
Life Begins at 61
1941