is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, actress and activist. She was born in

Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

, to Japanese parents and graduated from the University of Tokyo. She worked as a visiting professor at Josai International University. While being held hostage by hijackers on

All Nippon Airways Flight 857 All Nippon Airways Flight 857 was a scheduled flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Hakodate Airport that was hijacked by a lone individual on June 21, 1995. The aircraft was boarded by police the next morning following an over-night standoff, in th ...

, Kato used her cell phone to keep in contact with police during the hijacking.

Discography

Album

* 私の中のひとり (1970), Polydor Records * この世に生まれてきたら (1974), Polydor Records * いく時代かがありまして (1975), Polydor Records * 回帰船 (1976), Polydor Records * さびた車輪 (1977) Kitty Records * ''

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'' (1983), Polydor Records * 日本哀歌集 (1983), Polydor Records * '' La Femme qui vient de Cypango'' (1991), Universal * ''

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'' (1995), Universal

Live and collaborations

* ''Live'' – Tokiko Kato and

Kiyoshi Hasegawa was a Japanese artist and engraver who spent most of his life in France and whose work is featured at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Biography Born in present-day Yokohama, he moved to France in 1919 (via the United States) to learn copperplate ...

(1978), Polydor Records * ''Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy'' – Tokiko Kato and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1982), Polydor Records * '' Songs from the Cold Seas'' – Hector Zazou (1994), Columbia Records

Filmography

Films

* '' Izakaya Chōji'' (1983) as Shigeko * ''

Hachikō Monogatari is a 1987 Japanese drama film directed by Seijirō Kōyama and starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino and Masumi Harukawa. The film depicts the true story of Hachikō, a loyal Akita dog who continued to wait for his owner, Profess ...

'' (1987) as Tamiko * (1990) * '' Porco Rosso'' (1992) as Madame Gina (voice) * ''Open House'' (1998) as Tokiko * (2002) * (2002) as Eiko * ''Let's Talk About the Old Times'' (2022) as herself

Television

# (4 episodes, 2006) as Michiyo Yamashita # (2017) narration

References

External links

* 1943 births Japanese women singer-songwriters Hijacking survivors Living people Japanese people from Manchukuo 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses 20th-century Japanese women singers 20th-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers {{Japan-singer-stub