Toho-exclusive supporting actor, often times appearing in films without credit. He is best seen as one of the frightened dam workers in Mothra (1961, the other worker being Shoichi Hirose).

After the collapse of the contract system in 1972 he retired from acting and became a fisherman, although he continued making cameo appearances in the kaiju eiga genre, including as a ship’s radio operator in The Return of Godzilla (1984) and as the janitor greeting the main characters to the G-Grasper’s HQ in Godzilla X Megaguirus (2000). Kato died at home in June 2020 from kidney failure.