Acting
Chishū Ryū
Also Known As: 笠 智衆, Chishû Ryû, Ryu Chishu
Birth Date
May 13, 1904
Death Date
March 16, 1993
(passed away at 88)
Place of Birth
Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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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.
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Tamayura
直木良彦
1965 • 310 episodes
Hi no kuni ni
造園主・吉野公平
1976 • 154 episodes
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Tayama Dosen
1985
Red Beard
Mr. Yasumoto
1965
Dreams
Old Man
1990
Tokyo Story
Shukichi Hirayama
1953
The Roads Men Travel
Kadomae
1976 • 1 episode
Late Spring
Shukichi Somiya
1949
Until the End of the World
Mr. Mori
1991
The Bad Sleep Well
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
1960
The End of Summer
Farmer
1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Hinanmin no Chôrô
1961
Zoku zoku jiken
1980 • 4 episodes
Good Morning
Keitaro Hayashi
1959
The Castle of Sand
Kojuro Kirihara
1974
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama
1962
Twenty-Four Eyes
Otoko Sensei
1954
Tokyo Twilight
Shukichi Sugiyama
1957
The Longest Tunnel
Saiji Akutsu
1982
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Sadao Hirayama
1952