Chishū Ryū
Acting
Born: 1904-05-13 in Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Tokyo Story
Shukichi Hirayama
Dreams
Old Man
Late Spring
Shukichi Somiya
Red Beard
Mr. Yasumoto
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A Monk (uncredited)
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama
Good Morning
Keitaro Hayashi
The Bad Sleep Well
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
Until the End of the World
Mr. Mori
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Hinanmin no Chôrô
Early Summer
Koichi Mamiya
Floating Weeds
Theatre Owner
Late Autumn
Shukichi Miwa
Equinox Flower
Shukichi Mikami
Tokyo Twilight
Shukichi Sugiyama
I Was Born, But...
Home movie projectionist
The Only Son
Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher
The End of Summer
Farmer
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Sadao Hirayama
Tokyo-Ga
Self
Early Spring
Kiichi Onodera
Twenty-Four Eyes
Otoko Sensei
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa
A Story of Floating Weeds
Shouting Audience Member (uncredited)
A Hen in the Wind
Kazuichiro Satake
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Tashiro
The Castle of Sand
Kojuro Kirihara
A Taxing Woman's Return
Former Priest
The Funeral
The Priest
The Rickshaw Man
Toyozo Yuki
Love Letter
The Munekata Sisters
Tadachika Munekata
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Shojiro's Friend
Woman of Tokyo
Reporter
Japan's Longest Day
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
An Inn in Tokyo
Policeman
The Moon Has Risen
Asai Mokichi
Passing Fancy
Man on Boat
That Night's Wife
Policeman
Carmen Comes Home
Principal