Katsumi Tezuka
Katsumi Tezuka (手塚 勝巳, Tezuka Katsumi, August 31, 1912 - unknown) was a Japanese actor and former professional baseball player. He was best known for playing numerous kaiju in several Toho science fiction and horror films directed by Ishiro Honda, as well as various supporting roles. He retired from acting in 1967, with his last film appearance in "Five Gents Prefer Geisha." Tezuka's career after this point is unknown, and his date of death has never been publicized.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.888 |
| Birthday | 1912-08-31 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Tezuka Katsumi, |
1952
Forty-Eight Man
8/1
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Forty-Eight Man
1963
Matango
6.7/104
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try...
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Matango
1957
Ôban
9/1
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...
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Ôban
1957
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
8.6/20
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a u...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
1977
Godzilla
6.8/54
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plu...
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Godzilla
1956
Rebels on the High Sea
9/1
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
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Rebels on the High Sea
1957
The Mysterians
6.444/62
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to s...
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The Mysterians
1962
Varan the Unbelievable
4.364/33
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...
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Varan the Unbelievable
1954
Godzilla
7.63/1100
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover somethin...
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Godzilla
1955
Godzilla Raids Again
5.979/330
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
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Godzilla Raids Again
1961
Mothra
7.1/182
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al...
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Mothra
1958
The H-Man
5.795/44
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where s...
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The H-Man
1963
Atragon
6.655/58
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World W...
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Atragon
1959
Battle in Outer Space
6.01/51
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and contr...
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Battle in Outer Space
1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla
6.9/341
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approa...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
1964
Mothra vs. Godzilla
7.039/336
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
1962
Gorath
6.5/26
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is en...
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Gorath
1958
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
10/1
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls f...
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1966
The Man from Planet Alpha
8/1
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats comedy group and jazz band members. It is...
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The Man from Planet Alpha
1963
King Kong vs. Godzilla
6.533/275
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they barga...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
1958
Varan
5.8/36
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Vara...
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Varan
1953
The Last Embrace
10/1
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
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The Last Embrace
1965
The Retreat from Kiska
8.5/4
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe...
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The Retreat from Kiska
1955
Marital Relations
5.571/7
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. Th...
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Marital Relations
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.155/139
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
7.318/11
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyoto...
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Daredevil in the Castle
1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
6.546/283
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1959
The Three Treasures
5.5/14
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1966
Moment of Terror
5.923/13
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victi...
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Moment of Terror
1959
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.4/37
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1952
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
9/1
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I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
1953
Her Captive Gamblers
9/1
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Her Captive Gamblers
1959
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
8/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1962
Chûshingura
7.152/46
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura
1956
Rodan
6.513/186
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mine...
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Rodan
1940
Navy Bomb Squadron
0/0
Japanese propaganda film
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Navy Bomb Squadron
1953
The Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/10
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
1952
Shanghai Rose
8/1
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Shanghai Rose
1939
Song of the White Orchid
8/1
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the...
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Song of the White Orchid
1965
Beast Alley
7/2
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entang...
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Beast Alley
1957
Tokyo 1960
0/0
A Filipino re-edit of the original Godzilla. Appears to have been edited in a similar fashion to the American King of the Monsters!, with the use of F...
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Tokyo 1960
1965
The White Rose of Hong Kong
7/1
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful secrets unra...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
1963
Company President Travels Abroad Part II
8/1
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the ti...
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Company President Travels Abroad Part II
1959
A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
0/0
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s honor—until a last-minute...
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A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
1957
Reign of Terror
0/0
Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for drug dealing. Initially unaware of this, he falls in...
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Reign of Terror
1955
Tomboy Daughter Diary
0/0
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa. Amid comic mix-ups with a fake fortune teller, j...
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Tomboy Daughter Diary
1955
Bridal Candidates
0/0
Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic chaos unfold around her and fortune-teller Ishiba...
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Bridal Candidates
1977
Bloodthirsty Hawk
9/2
A mining community discovers that men are dying from unknown circumstances which leads to the discovery of a giant flying monster vulture by the name...
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Bloodthirsty Hawk
1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
6.984/289
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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