Tai Kato

Tai Kato (加藤 泰) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was best known for making yakuza films at the Toei Company in 1960s.

Biography
Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Kato was the nephew of the film director Sadao Yamanaka. He entered the Toho studio in 1937 and first began by working on documentaries. He worked as an assistant director to Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon. After World War II he switched to making jidaigeki.

Style and influences
Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times noted that Kato has been compared with Budd Boetticher and Samuel Fuller.

Filmography as director

 * Submarine (1941) - under the pseudonym "Yoshio Nishio"
 * Bubble (1943) - under the pseudonym "Yoshio Nishio"
 * Lice Are Scary (1944)
 * Military Academy (1944)
 * Sword Trouble, Women Trouble, Part 1: Change of a Woman's Heart (1951)
 * Sword Trouble, Women Trouble, Part 2: The Blade Reflecting the Light of a Fallen Star (1951)
 * Shimizu Port is Scarier Than a Demon (1952)
 * Book of Birds (1952)
 * ''Ninjutsu Jiraiya, Part 1 (1955)
 * ''Ninjutsu Jiraiya, Part 2 (1955)
 * Love and the Masterless Samurai (1957)
 * Tales of Young Genji Kuro, Part 1 (1957)
 * The Tattooed Lord (1958)
 * Tales of Young Genji Kuro, Part 2 (1958)
 * The Wind, the Woman and the Wandering Crow (1958)
 * Eight Views of Samurai (1958)
 * Genghis Khan and His Mongols (1959)
 * Robin Hood of Edo (1960)
 * Asagiri Highway (1961)
 * The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost (1961)
 * In Search of Mother (1962)
 * Sazen Tange: The Masterpiece Blade (1962)
 * Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963)
 * Warrior of the Wind (1964)
 * Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man (1964)
 * Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall (1964)
 * Blood of Revenge (1965)
 * Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza (1966)
 * Drained to the Bone (1966)
 * By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)
 * Opium Hills: The Hell Squad (1966)
 * Eighteen Years in Prison (1967)
 * I, the Executioner (1968)
 * Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Match (1969)
 * Red Peony Gambles Her Life (1970)
 * Red Peony Gambler: Death to the Wicked (1971)
 * Modern Lady Gambler (1972)
 * Theatre of Life (1972)
 * Flower and Dragon (1973)
 * Musashi Miyamoto (1973)
 * Blossom and Sword (1973)
 * The Beast in the Shadows (1977)
 * Ondekoza (1981)