Masao Katô

Filmes

Love Is in the Green Wind
Executive Producer
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.
Himiko
Producer
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.
Silence
Production Manager
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Double Suicide
Production Manager
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
One Way Ticket to Love
Lighting Technician
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
愛の濃淡
Lighting Technician
Hearts A-Flutter
Lighting Technician
Ninja's Weapon
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's only living heir, now a skilled ninja, uses sorcery to avenge the murders of his parents.
The Big Ambition
Lighting Technician
A Lança Ensanguentada
No final do século XVIII, um jovem samurai beberrão viaja com seus dois servos pela estrada de Tokaido, rumo a Edo (atual Tóquio). Ao longo do caminho, são acompanhados por todo tipo de pessoas que fazem o mesmo trajeto: andarilhos, vendedores, artistas, camponeses, um menino órfão e também, segundo as autoridades, um ladrão de identidade desconhecida.
Haru no Wakakusa
Lighting Technician
Merciless Blade Part 2
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Odoru ryûgûjô
Lighting Director
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Lighting Technician
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
The Ball at the Anjo House
Lighting Technician
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.
Victory of Women
Lighting Technician
A lawyer fights doggedly for a more just legal system to rid Japan of its draconian penal system.