Chishū Ryū
Acting
Born May 13, 1904 · 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, lice…
Known For · 40 titles
Tamayura
Hi no kuni ni
Tokyo Story
Red Beard
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Dreams
The Roads Men Travel
Until the End of the World
Zoku zoku jiken
Late Spring
The Bad Sleep Well
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Tokyo Suburbia
Let's Go in Good Spirits
Home Sweet Home
Children Hand in Hand
Mother is Strong
Lanterns on Blue Waters
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Haguregumo
Dreams of Youth
Drunkard's Paradise
Goodbye to the Front
An Autumn Afternoon
The Man Who Has Returned
A-Un
Come Marry Me
The Lonely Scalpel
Good Morning
Song of the Flower Basket
Only She Knows
Couple on the Move
Scrap Collectors
The Actress and the Detective
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Castle of Sand
Floating Weeds
Tokyo Twilight
Japan's Longest Day