Chishū Ryū
Known For
Acting
Born
1904-05-13 in Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Died
1993-03-16
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.
Most Known For
Tamayura
as 直木良彦
Tokyo Story
as Shukichi Hirayama
Dreams
as Old Man
The Roads Men Travel
as Kadomae
Love Letter
The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
Hi no kuni ni
as 造園主・吉野公平
Late Spring
as Shukichi Somiya
Tokyo Suburbia
Until the End of the World
as Mr. Mori
The Lonely Scalpel
Good Morning
as Keitaro Hayashi
Red Beard
as Mr. Yasumoto
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no Chôrô
Japan's Longest Day
as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Zoku zoku jiken
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei Hirayama
Early Summer
as Koichi Mamiya
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
Late Autumn
as Shukichi Miwa