Tonkatsu is a Japanese dish that consists of a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet. It involves coating slices of pork with panko, and then frying them in oil. The two main types are fillet and loin. Tonkatsu is also the basis of other dishes such as katsukarē and katsudon.

Cutlet refers to:a thin slice of meat from the leg or ribs of mutton, veal, pork, or chicken a dish made of such slice, often breaded a croquette or cutlet-shaped patty made of ground meat a kind of fish cut where the fish is sliced perpendicular to the spine, rather than parallel ; often synonymous with steak a prawn or shrimp with its head and outer shell removed, leaving only the flesh and tail a mash of vegetables fried with bread