Eijirō Tōno
Acting
1907-09-17 · Tomioka, Japon
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
Filmography
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990 · Movie
Days with Harasu
1989 · Movie
Death of a Tea Master
1989 · Movie
So What
1988 · Movie
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
1984 · Movie
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984 · Movie
Adrift at Sea
1983 · Movie
Choji Snack Bar
1983 · Movie
I Lived, But...
1983 · Movie
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1982 · Movie
The King and His Vassal
1981 · Movie
The Last Game
1979 · Movie
Hunter in the Dark
1979 · Movie
Lord Mito
1978 · Movie
Island of Hell
1977 · Movie
水戸黄門 第3部
1971 · Series
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
1971 · Movie
The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · Movie
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
1971 · Movie
Will to Conquer
1970 · Movie
水戸黄門 第2部
1970 · Series
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970 · Movie
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970 · Movie
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Movie
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · Movie
水戸黄門 第１部
1969 · Series
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969 · Movie
Goyokin
1969 · Movie
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969 · Movie
Crazy Big Discovery
1969 · Movie
The Flame of Youth
1968 · Movie
It's Tough Being a Man
1968 · Series
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968 · Movie
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968 · Movie
Song of Vengeance
1968 · Movie
Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968 · Movie
Kill!
1968 · Movie
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968 · Movie
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968 · Movie
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967 · Movie
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967 · Movie
The Burning Sun
1967 · Movie
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967 · Movie
Monsieur Zivaco
1967 · Movie
Goal for the Young
1967 · Movie
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
1967 · Movie
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
1967 · Movie
Three Faces of Love
1967 · Movie
Industrial Spy Free-for-All
1967 · Movie
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967 · Movie
Journey to the North
1967 · Movie
The Great White Tower
1966 · Movie
Dash to the Sun
1966 · Movie
Lost Sex
1966 · Movie
Kill the Night Rose
1966 · Movie
Dynamite Doctor
1966 · Movie
Four and A Half Mats
1966 · Movie
Silence Has No Wings
1966 · Movie
A Company President's Life Story
1966 · Movie
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965 · Movie
An Innocent Witch
1965 · Movie
Blood and Sea
1965 · Movie
Sword of the Beast
1965 · Movie
The Spy
1965 · Movie
Illusion of Blood
1965 · Movie
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965 · Movie
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965 · Movie
The Last Judgment
1965 · Movie
Start Here
1965 · Movie
Red Beard
1965 · Movie
Salaryman's Medal
1965 · Movie
Samurai Assassin
1965 · Movie
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965 · Movie
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964 · Movie
Eddy Currents of Life
1964 · Movie
Modern Gentleman
1964 · Movie
The Sandal Keeper
1964 · Movie
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964 · Movie
The Naked Executive
1964 · Movie
A Story from Echigo
1964 · Movie
A Public Benefactor
1964 · Movie
Our Happiness Alone
1964 · Movie
The Bride is Fifteen
1964 · Movie
Pale Flower
1964 · Movie
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964 · Movie
白さぎと少年
1964 · Movie
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963 · Movie
Fight of the Gamblers
1963 · Movie
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963 · Movie
Tange Sazen
1963 · Movie
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963 · Movie
A House in the Quarter
1963 · Movie
The Sea of Eden
1963 · Movie
The Navy
1963 · Movie
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963 · Movie
Double Wedding
1963 · Movie
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963 · Movie
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963 · Movie
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963 · Movie
The Sunshine Girl
1963 · Movie
High and Low
1963 · Movie
Girls Born in August
1963 · Movie
Pressure of Guilt
1963 · Movie
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963 · Movie
Born in Sin
1962 · Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Movie
The Great Wall
1962 · Movie
Mount Hakone
1962 · Movie
The Man From the Sea
1962 · Movie
This Madding Crowd
1962 · Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962 · Movie
A Carpenter and Children
1962 · Movie
The Bandits
1962 · Movie
Facing to the Clouds
1962 · Movie
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962 · Movie
Foundry Town
1962 · Movie
Seinen no isu
1962 · Movie
Musume to watashi
1962 · Movie
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962 · Movie
Our Marriage
1962 · Movie
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962 · Movie
Season of Farewell
1962 · Movie
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962 · Movie
The Red Shadow
1961 · Movie
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961 · Movie
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961 · Movie
Run, Genta, Run!
1961 · Movie
Wind and waves of the South
1961 · Movie
Buddha
1961 · Movie
The Last War
1961 · Movie
Sanctuary
1961 · Movie
Boss Takes to the Road
1961 · Movie
Immortal Love
1961 · Movie
The Crimson Plains
1961 · Movie
The Estuary
1961 · Movie
The Orphan Brother
1961 · Movie
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961 · Movie
Challenge to Live
1961 · Movie
Fine Man
1961 · Movie
Yojimbo
1961 · Movie
An Edo Magistrate
1961 · Movie
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961 · Movie
Pigs and Battleships
1961 · Movie
For This We Fight
1961 · Movie
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961 · Movie
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960 · Movie
The Masterless 47
1960 · Movie
The War Without Weapons
1960 · Movie
Wait for Tomorrow
1960 · Movie
The Pirates
1960 · Movie
The Brass General
1960 · Movie
The Twilight Story
1960 · Movie
The Brawler
1960 · Movie
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960 · Movie
Police Precinct Part 13
1960 · Movie
Just Barely
1960 · Movie
The Master Spearman
1960 · Movie
The Man of Seven Faces
1960 · Movie
Ajisai no uta
1960 · Movie
The Gambling Samurai
1960 · Movie
The Curio Master
1960 · Movie
The Great Road
1960 · Movie
The Forbidden Scoop
1960 · Movie
The Cards Will Tell
1960 · Movie
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960 · Movie
The Bride from Japan
1959 · Movie
The Three Treasures
1959 · Movie
The Human Wall
1959 · Movie
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959 · Movie
Ripe and Marriageable
1959 · Movie
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959 · Movie
The Beast Shall Die
1959 · Movie
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959 · Movie
High Teen
1959 · Movie
Good Morning
1959 · Movie
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959 · Movie
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959 · Movie
Kaze no uchi so to
1959 · Movie
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959 · Movie
The Third Dead Angle
1959 · Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Movie
The Stream of Youth
1959 · Movie
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958 · Movie
The Days of Evil Women
1958 · Movie
Theater of Life
1958 · Movie
The Naked General
1958 · Movie
The Naked Sun
1958 · Movie
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958 · Movie
A Grain of Wheat
1958 · Movie
The Young Beast
1958 · Movie
Oban kanketsu hen
1958 · Movie
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958 · Movie
The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · Movie
Night Drum
1958 · Movie
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958 · Movie
Firefly Light
1958 · Movie
Princess of Revenge
1958 · Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958 · Movie
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957 · Movie
The Eleventh Hour
1957 · Movie
Black River
1957 · Movie
The Story of Pure Love
1957 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1957 · Movie
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957 · Movie
The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Movie
Untamed Woman
1957 · Movie
Hateful Things
1957 · Movie
Turtledove
1957 · Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957 · Movie
Love of the Princess
1957 · Movie
An Osaka Story
1957 · Movie
Ôban
1957 · Movie
Rice
1957 · Movie
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1957 · Movie
Actress
1956 · Movie
I Will Buy You
1956 · Movie
Love on Rainbow Island
1956 · Movie
The Forest Is Alive
1956 · Movie
Easy-Going Married Couple
1956 · Movie
Tears
1956 · Movie
Undercurrent
1956 · Movie
How Sorrowful
1956 · Movie
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956 · Movie
Asashio yushio
1956 · Movie
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956 · Movie
Flowery Brothers
1956 · Movie
Farewell to Dream
1956 · Movie
The Vampire Moth
1956 · Movie
White Fan
1956 · Movie
Early Spring
1956 · Movie
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956 · Movie
Love at Forty
1955 · Movie
I Live in Fear
1955 · Movie
Floating Weeds Diary
1955 · Movie
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955 · Movie
The Wolves
1955 · Movie
Murder on the Last Train
1955 · Movie
Twilight Saloon
1955 · Movie
Beautiful Days
1955 · Movie
Burden of Love
1955 · Movie
Here Is a Spring
1955 · Movie
Policeman's Diary
1955 · Movie
The Cock Crows Twice
1954 · Movie
Women's House
1954 · Movie
The Surf
1954 · Movie
The Black Current
1954 · Movie
The Street Without Sun
1954 · Movie
Seven Samurai
1954 · Movie
The Glorious Days
1954 · Movie
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954 · Movie
Tokyo Story
1953 · Movie
Waseda University
1953 · Movie
The Wild Geese
1953 · Movie
Hiroba no kōdoku
1953 · Movie
Girls in the Orchard
1953 · Movie
Shishun no izumi
1953 · Movie
The Tattoo Murder Case
1953 · Movie
Asama no karasu
1953 · Movie
Jūdai no seiten
1953 · Movie
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952 · Movie
Her Secret
1952 · Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952 · Movie
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952 · Movie
Beauty and the Thief
1952 · Movie
Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Movie
Sword for Hire
1952 · Movie
The Yamabiko School
1952 · Movie
Farewell to Spring
1952 · Movie
The Man from the Moon
1951 · Movie
Sasaki Kojiro
1951 · Movie
風雲児
1951 · Movie
Freedom School
1951 · Movie
Ginza Cosmetics
1951 · Movie
Yasubei Nakayama
1951 · Movie
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951 · Movie
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950 · Movie
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950 · Movie
A Man from Akagi
1950 · Movie
Heat and Mud
1950 · Movie
Kazanmyaku
1950 · Movie
Devil's Gold
1950 · Movie
Rinchi
1949 · Movie
Chobei the Rogue
1949 · Movie
Stray Dog
1949 · Movie
Late Night Confession
1949 · Movie
Flame of My Love
1949 · Movie
Apostasy
1948 · Movie
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948 · Movie
As If To Kill
1948 · Movie
Rira no hana wasureji
1947 · Movie
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947 · Movie
Duel at Moonrise
1947 · Movie
Marriage
1947 · Movie
Morning for the Osone Family
1946 · Movie
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946 · Movie
The Young Women of Izu
1945 · Movie
Otome no iru kichi
1945 · Movie
Army
1944 · Movie
Jubilation Street
1944 · Movie
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944 · Movie
Navy
1943 · Movie
Port of Flowers
1943 · Movie