Cast & creator
Haruko Katō
Best known for Howl's Moving Castle, Kimi no na wa, Kiki's Delivery Service
Haruko Katō (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress. Haruko Katō 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 Kato, whom she married in 1946.
Also known as: 加藤 治子, Katō Haruko, 御舟京子, 카토 하루코, Haruko Katô
79
film credits
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television credits
94
1939–2011 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (94)
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Howl's Moving Castle
Madame Suliman (voice)
2004
Kimi no na wa
浜口徳枝
1991
Kiki's Delivery Service
Old Lady (voice)
1989
Furuhata Ninzaburo
Takayo Sasaki
1994
Time Limit Investigator
2006
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Grandmother
1985
A Thousand and One Nights
Genie (voice)
1969
Veterinarian Dolittle
2010
Yumechiyo Nikki
1981
Marriage Begins With A Lie
Arishima Tsuneko
1993
Fuyu no Undokai
1977
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
Shuzuko dojima
1978
突然の明日
1980
Ashura no Gotoku
1979
Love in the Mud
1977
Sharaku
Ofuji
1995
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993
Sweet Revenge
Yoshiko Otsuka
1977
Gonza the Spearman
Oyuki's nanny
1986
About Her Brother
Takano Kinuo
2010
Chameleon
Noriko Yamamura
2008
Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
1974
Camellia Gate
1964森繁久彌の七人の孫
1987
Spy Sorge
2003
Capone Cries a Lot
Wife
1985
A Taxing Woman's Return
Kinu Akabane
1988
Gray Sunset
Kikuyo Takano
1985
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Tokyo Blackout
Umeko Koide
1987
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Pilgrimage at Night
Maid at Kyoto Inn
1959
Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
Takako
2003
It's On Me
2009
A Brief Message from the Heart
1995
Love Is a Hunter
Keiko Asada
1976
Kyukei no Koya
Takako Nogami
1978
芭蕉布を織る女たち
Narrator (voice)
1981
Bonds
Mrs. Soga
1998
The Wild Daisy
Kiku Saito
1981
なんたって18歳！
1971
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Tasmania Story
1990
Blooming Again
Sadako Tōyama
2004
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Shizu Nagayama
1984
Kizu
1988
Carefree Goddesses
1987
Pistol Opera
Shizuka Orikuchi
2001
First Love
1972
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Shizue Funada
1964
The Girl I Abandoned
1969
Secret Liaisons
1995
Body and Soul
Ryosuke's mother
1997The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Life Is Journey
2003
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Currents of Youth
Girl in a tea room
1942
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2011
Awakening
Shigeko Miyasato
2007
若い川の流れ
1968
The Mandarin Room
Namiko
1956
Sword and Flower
1972
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Fumiko Sawaki
1985
The Dancer
1989
Something Like It
1981
春日和
1967Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
Life Begins at 61
1941
Seasonal Wind
1977
Deaths in Tokimeki
Otae-san
1984
Green Fruit
1964
Sky of Hope
Toshiko
1942
Kura
1995
The House of Wedlock
Kuniko Sakazaki
1986
Umi e, See You
Eiji’s mother
1988
Wedding Day
1940The Gambling Nun
1971
Hobo General
1976Kaze no Sumu Ie
1989
Beyond the Shining Sea
Tomie Kawamura
1986
Young Girls Are Everywhere
Muneko Eda
1966
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1962
Flower Picking Diary
1939Ghost Story: Flower House
1991
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
Teruko
1940
The Crying Wind
Shiho Fujino
2004
East China Sea
Rokurō's mother
1968
Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Aunt
1971Onna no Naka no Kaze
1988Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964
The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
1987