Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-09-17 (87 years old)
Deathday
1994-09-08
Place of Birth
Gunma, Japan
Also known As
Tōno Eijirō
Эйдзиро Тоно
东野英治郎
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 th...
1954
as Kidnapper
1967
as Narrator
1965
as Goheiji
1956
as Tokichi Hattori
1949
1955
as Old man from Brazil
1961
as Kan'ichi
1961
as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
1957
as Tomekichi the Tinker
1989
as Kokei
1963
as Factory Worker
1950
1959
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
1949
1957
as Oshima's father
1962
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
1964
as Yasuoka
1951
1952
as Jurota
1952
as Sakichi Arakawa
1979
as Shogen
1968
as Hyogo Moriuchi
1965
as Minister
1962
1953
as Numata
1963
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1962
as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
1950
1962
as Li Tang
1953
1966
as Marshal
1968
as Ganko (voice)
1967
as Senzo
1963
as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
1961
1951
1963
as Akiharu
1964
as Kosugi, president
1957
as Chaplin-San
1957
as Chaplin san
1959
as Mieko's father
1965
as Masagorō Kisoya
1961
as Captain Umehara
1957
as Kurihara
1949
as State Councillor Itô
1957
as Fugetsusai
1956
as Ogushi
1946
as Ippei Yamaka
1955
as Onizuka
1953
as Suezo
1958
as Fugetsusai
1956
as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
1965
1989
1960
as Gonosuke Kira
1943
as Teacher Ogata
1961
as Shinzô Okui
1966
1943
as Hayashida
1951
1967
as Kichinosuke Kawara
1962
1953
1951
1958
as Chamberlain
1968
as 看守A
1970
1966
as Uyu
1951
as Hyôbei Sugano
1968
as Nakaji, Principal
1961
as Suratha
1956
as Yujiro Funaki
1955
1955
as Old man Murata
1955
1958
as Aisawa
1961
1956
as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
1948
1956
1958
1958
1965
1960
as Kansuke
1963
as Sosuke Otomo
1961
as Policeman
1959
1947
as Fumie's father
1956
as Shiimbei Hayashi
1956
as Takuetsu
1959
as Policeman
1944
as Shingo’s father
1960
as Genkichi Miyashita
1957
as Kansuke
1963
1957
1948
as Yoshii
1988
1958
as Messenger
1964
1957
as Gonzaemon Hoshino
1962
as Father
1968
as Kinbei Yaita
1952
1965
as Seizo
1962
1983
as Self
1961
1955
as Baiken Shishido
1956
as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
1977
as Kaemon Kito
1967
as Soga
1983
1962
1964
as Shigesuke Hayashi
1958
1959
as Ootomo
1959
as Detective Kuwashima
1978
as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
1961
as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
1956
1944
as Sakuragi
1966
as Neighbor / Writer
1960
as Seisaku Kajiwara
1969
as Sanpo Sensei
1962
as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
1961
as Jinzaburô Kamo
1963
1956
1970
as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
1967
1990
as Prime Minister
1952
as Kozo Kawai
1955
as Jozo Araki
1983
1984
as Narration (voice)
1956
1963
as Goro
1969
1962
as Grandpa Yoshi
1950
1958
1961
as Genji
1953
as Nakamura, a policeman
1954
as President Kunio
1960
1960
1954
as Schoolmaster
1955
as Magoro Ichikawa
1979
1954
1959
as Saemon, Hikari's father
1959
1960
as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
1960
as Isuke Tsujikura
1966
as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
1969
as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
1969
as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
1960
1970
as Takeyunosuke Gōji
1970
as Gōji Keinosuke
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