Chishū Ryū
Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu. From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral).
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Acting
Movie
Tokyo Story
as Shukichi Hirayama
1953
Movie
Dreams
as Old Man
1990
Movie
Late Spring
as Shukichi Somiya
1949
Movie
Red Beard
as Mr. Yasumoto
1965
Movie
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Tayama Dosen
1985
Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei Hirayama
1962
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Good Morning
as Keitaro Hayashi
1959
Movie
The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
1960
Movie
Until the End of the World
as Mr. Mori
1991
Movie
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no Chôrô
1961
Movie
Early Summer
as Koichi Mamiya
1951
Movie
Floating Weeds
as Theatre Owner
1959
Movie
Late Autumn
as Shukichi Miwa
1960
Movie
Equinox Flower
as Shukichi Mikami
1958
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
as Shukichi Sugiyama
1957
Movie
I Was Born, But...
as Home movie projectionist
1932
Movie
The Only Son
as Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher
1936
Movie
The End of Summer
as Farmer
1961
Movie
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
1985
Movie
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
as Sadao Hirayama
1952
Movie
Early Spring
as Kiichi Onodera
1956
Movie
Twenty-Four Eyes
as Otoko Sensei
1954
Movie
There Was a Father
as Shuhei Horikawa
1942
Movie
A Story of Floating Weeds
as Shouting Audience Member (uncredited)
1934