Chishū Ryū
Actor
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).
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Filmography
Dreams
as Old Man 1990
Late Spring
as Shukichi Somiya 1949
Red Beard
as Mr. Yasumoto 1965
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei Hirayama 1962
Good Morning
as Keitaro Hayashi 1959
The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka 1960
Until the End of the World
as Mr. Mori 1991
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no Chôrô 1961
Early Summer
as Koichi Mamiya 1951
Floating Weeds
as Theatre Owner 1959
Late Autumn
as Shukichi Miwa 1960
Equinox Flower
as Shukichi Mikami 1958
Tokyo Twilight
as Shukichi Sugiyama 1957
I Was Born, But...
as Home movie projectionist 1932
The Only Son
as Teacher Okubo 1936
The End of Summer
as Farmer 1961