Chishū Ryū
Acting
1904-05-13 · Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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.
Filmography
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997 · Movie
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992 · Movie
Luminous Moss
1992 · Movie
Tora-san Confesses
1991 · Movie
Until the End of the World
1991 · Movie
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990 · Movie
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990 · Movie
Making of 'Dreams'
1990 · Movie
Dreams
1990 · Movie
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989 · Movie
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989 · Movie
Until Spring Comes
1989 · Movie
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988 · Movie
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988 · Movie
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
1988 · Movie
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987 · Movie
An Early Autumn
1987 · Series
Tora-san Goes North
1987 · Movie
Crybaby Chacha
1987 · Movie
Carefree Goddesses
1987 · Movie
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986 · Movie
The Greatest Man in the World
1986 · Movie
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986 · Movie
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985 · Movie
And Then
1985 · Movie
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 · Movie
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985 · Movie
Tokyo-Ga
1985 · Movie
When Winter Comes
1985 · Movie
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984 · Movie
The Funeral
1984 · Movie
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984 · Movie
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984 · Movie
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983 · Movie
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983 · Movie
I Lived, But...
1983 · Movie
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · Movie
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1983 · Movie
Tora-san, the Expert
1982 · Movie
When We are Old
1982 · Movie
The Longest Tunnel
1982 · Movie
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 · Movie
Tora-san's Promise
1981 · Movie
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981 · Movie
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980 · Movie
Zoku zoku jiken
1980 · Series
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980 · Movie
A-Un
1980 · Series
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979 · Movie
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979 · Movie
Tokyo Suburbia
1979 · Series
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978 · Movie
Monument to Holy Service
1978 · Movie
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978 · Movie
Haguregumo
1978 · Series
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977 · Movie
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977 · Movie
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976 · Movie
Oretachi no toki
1976 · Movie
Hi no kuni ni
1976 · Series
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976 · Movie
The Roads Men Travel
1976 · Series
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975 · Movie
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975 · Movie
Kyukei no Koya
1975 · Movie
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974 · Movie
The Castle of Sand
1974 · Movie
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974 · Movie
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974 · Movie
Machi no Hi
1974 · Movie
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973 · Movie
Miyamoto Musashi
1973 · Movie
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
1973 · Movie
Flower and Dragon
1973 · Movie
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973 · Movie
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972 · Movie
Home from the Sea
1972 · Movie
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972 · Movie
Tora-san's Love Call
1971 · Movie
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971 · Movie
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1971 · Movie
おれは男だ！
1971 · Series
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971 · Movie
High-School Outcasts
1970 · Movie
The Last Kamikaze
1970 · Movie
Where Spring Comes Late
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Runaway
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970 · Movie
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970 · Movie
Fight for the Glory
1969 · Movie
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · Movie
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969 · Movie
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969 · Movie
The Lonely Scalpel
1969 · Series
Through Days and Months
1969 · Movie
Scrap Collectors
1968 · Movie
The Human Bullet
1968 · Movie
Traveling in Party
1967 · Movie
Japan's Longest Day
1967 · Movie
The Black Sheep
1967 · Movie
Oyuki
1966 · Movie
Come Marry Me
1966 · Movie
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966 · Movie
Warm Current
1966 · Movie
The Four Loves
1965 · Movie
Tamayura
1965 · Series
Red Beard
1965 · Movie
The Soundless Cry
1965 · Movie
The Radish and the Carrot
1965 · Movie
Gazing at Love and Death
1964 · Movie
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
1964 · Movie
I'm a Bodyguard
1964 · Movie
Blue Eyed Bride
1964 · Movie
Dislikes
1964 · Movie
Monrō no yōna onna
1964 · Movie
Tange Sazen
1963 · Movie
A Million Girls
1963 · Movie
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1963 · Movie
Double Wedding
1963 · Movie
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963 · Movie
Futari dake no toride
1963 · Movie
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963 · Movie
Sakiko-san chotto
1963 · Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Movie
Zoku aizen katsura
1962 · Movie
Four Sisters
1962 · Movie
Yoru no keisha
1962 · Movie
Love Under the Crucifix
1962 · Movie
Flower in a Storm
1962 · Movie
Dolls floating down the river
1962 · Movie
Drunkard's Paradise
1962 · Movie
The Wiser Age
1962 · Movie
Bandits on the Wind
1961 · Movie
Student Executive
1961 · Movie
The End of Summer
1961 · Movie
The Last War
1961 · Movie
The Youth and His Amulet
1961 · Movie
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961 · Movie
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1961 · Movie
Door of Flowers
1961 · Movie
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Movie
Late Autumn
1960 · Movie
Satan's Sword
1960 · Movie
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960 · Movie
Internees of Kampili
1960 · Movie
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Movie
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960 · Movie
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
1960 · Movie
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 · Movie
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960 · Movie
Only She Knows
1960 · Movie
The Wandering Princess
1960 · Movie
Spring Dreams
1960 · Movie
Floating Weeds
1959 · Movie
Love in the Mountains
1959 · Movie
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959 · Movie
The White Road Across the River
1959 · Movie
Good Morning
1959 · Movie
Farewell to Spring
1959 · Movie
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959 · Movie
Bridge
1959 · Movie
The Path Under the Platanes
1959 · Movie
The Snow Flurry
1959 · Movie
The Eternal Rainbow
1958 · Movie
The College Hero
1958 · Movie
Equinox Flower
1958 · Movie
The Rickshaw Man
1958 · Movie
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958 · Movie
White Blaze
1958 · Movie
Hearts A-Flutter
1957 · Movie
The Last Escape
1957 · Movie
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · Movie
The Crowded Train
1957 · Movie
The Face
1957 · Movie
Flying in the Air
1957 · Movie
Funny Fellows
1956 · Movie
Pure Love
1956 · Movie
The Storm
1956 · Movie
The Wicked Boy
1956 · Movie
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956 · Movie
The Invisible 108th Unit
1956 · Movie
Early Spring
1956 · Movie
Eyes of Children
1956 · Movie
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955 · Movie
Subarashiki shōtai
1955 · Movie
The First Kiss
1955 · Movie
Stray Sheep
1955 · Movie
Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
1955 · Movie
The Refugee
1955 · Movie
The Immortal Pitcher
1955 · Movie
Striving to Live
1955 · Movie
All is Well 2
1955 · Movie
All is Well
1955 · Movie
The Moon Has Risen
1955 · Movie
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954 · Movie
新婚たくあん夫婦
1954 · Movie
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954 · Movie
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954 · Movie
Autumn Interlude
1954 · Movie
Haru no Wakakusa
1954 · Movie
慶安水滸傳
1954 · Movie
Love Letter
1953 · Movie
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953 · Movie
Tokyo Story
1953 · Movie
Always in My Heart
1953 · Movie
Mole Alley
1953 · Movie
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953 · Movie
Sisters
1953 · Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953 · Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952 · Movie
Dôkoku
1952 · Movie
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952 · Movie
Kare o korosu na
1952 · Movie
Kyōshū
1952 · Movie
Youth of the Son
1952 · Movie
The Waves
1952 · Movie
Beauty of Life
1951 · Movie
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951 · Movie
Early Summer
1951 · Movie
Boyhood
1951 · Movie
Freedom School
1951 · Movie
Home Sweet Home
1951 · Movie
Carmen Comes Home
1951 · Movie
The Good Fairy
1951 · Movie
The Actress and the Detective
1950 · Movie
The Munekata Sisters
1950 · Movie
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950 · Movie
Kazanmyaku
1950 · Movie
Forgotten Children
1949 · Movie
Late Spring
1949 · Movie
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 · Movie
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949 · Movie
The Fourth Lady
1948 · Movie
Living Image
1948 · Movie
A Hen in the Wind
1948 · Movie
A Woman Who Convicts Men
1948 · Movie
Great X
1948 · Movie
A Visage to Remember
1948 · Movie
Children Hand in Hand
1948 · Movie
The Man of Rumor
1948 · Movie
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947 · Movie
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1947 · Movie
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946 · Movie
Iki na fûraibô
1946 · Movie
Saigo no joito
1945 · Movie
Sennichimae fukin
1945 · Movie
The Young Women of Izu
1945 · Movie
Otome no iru kichi
1945 · Movie
Gekimetsu no uta
1945 · Movie
Army
1944 · Movie
The Man Who Has Returned
1944 · Movie
Sailor
1944 · Movie
Navy
1943 · Movie
Our Planes Fly South
1943 · Movie
Port of Flowers
1943 · Movie
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943 · Movie
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1943 · Movie
Kaisen no Zenya
1943 · Movie
South Wind 2
1942 · Movie
South Wind
1942 · Movie
There Was a Father
1942 · Movie
Ornamental Hairpin
1941 · Movie
Flower
1941 · Movie
Let's Go in Good Spirits
1941 · Movie
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941 · Movie
Introspection Tower
1941 · Movie
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940 · Movie
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1940 · Movie
Mother is Strong
1939 · Movie
New Woman Question and Answer
1939 · Movie
Spring Thunder
1939 · Movie
A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939 · Movie
Southern Wind
1939 · Movie
Queen of the Wind
1938 · Movie
The Lights of Asakusa
1937 · Movie
Children in the Wind
1937 · Movie
Goodbye to the Front
1937 · Movie
The Golden Demon
1937 · Movie
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937 · Movie
A Star Athlete
1937 · Movie
Song of the Flower Basket
1937 · Movie
Moon Over the Ruins
1937 · Movie
The New Road: Akemi
1936 · Movie
Housewife Camellia
1936 · Movie
The Only Son
1936 · Movie
Boy Aviation Pilots
1936 · Movie
College Is a Nice Place
1936 · Movie
An Inn in Tokyo
1935 · Movie
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934 · Movie
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934 · Movie
Street Without End
1934 · Movie
Love
1933 · Movie
Passing Fancy
1933 · Movie
Dragnet Girl
1933 · Movie
Woman of Tokyo
1933 · Movie
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932 · Movie
I Was Born, But...
1932 · Movie
The Lady and the Beard
1931 · Movie
That Night's Wife
1930 · Movie
I Flunked, But...
1930 · Movie
Days of Youth
1929 · Movie
Physical Beauty
1928 · Movie
Couple on the Move
1928 · Movie
Pumpkin
1928 · Movie
Wife Lost
1928 · Movie
Dreams of Youth
1928 · Movie