Eijirō Tōno

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-09-17 (87 years old)

Deathday

1994-09-08

Place of Birth

Gunma, Japan

Eijirō Tōno

Biography

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...

Acting

1954

Seven Samurai

as Kidnapper

1965

Red Beard

as Goheiji

1956

Early Spring

as Tokichi Hattori

1955

I Live in Fear

as Old man from Brazil

1961

1961

Yojimbo

as Gonji, Tavern Keeper

1957

The Lower Depths

as Tomekichi the Tinker

1963

High and Low

as Factory Worker

1959

Good Morning

as Hiroshi Tomizawa

1949

1957

Untamed Woman

as Oshima's father

1962

Lady Sen and Hideyori

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

1964

Pale Flower

as Yasuoka

1952

Farewell to Spring

as Sakichi Arakawa

1979

1968

Kill!

as Hyogo Moriuchi

1965

1953

Tokyo Story

as Numata

1963

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1962

Foundry Town

as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)

1962

The Great Wall

as Li Tang

1966

Dynamite Doctor

as Marshal

1968

Horus: Prince of the Sun

as Ganko (voice)

1963

1964

The Naked Executive

as Kosugi, president

1957

Ôban

as Chaplin-San

1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Chaplin san

1959

1965

Samurai Assassin

as Masagorō Kisoya

1961

The Last War

as Captain Umehara

1957

Black River

as Kurihara

1949

Flame of My Love

as State Councillor Itô

1957

1956

1946

1955

Twilight Saloon

as Onizuka

1953

1956

Farewell to Dream

as Yôichi's father, Genkichi

1960

The Masterless 47

as Gonosuke Kira

1943

Navy

as Teacher Ogata

1961

The Crimson Plains

as Shinzô Okui

1943

Port of Flowers

as Hayashida

1967

Journey to the North

as Kichinosuke Kawara

1968

Song of Vengeance

as 看守A

1951

Ginza Cosmetics

as Hyôbei Sugano

1968

Monument to the Girl's Corps

as Nakaji, Principal

1961

Buddha

as Suratha

1956

Night River

as Yujiro Funaki

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Old man Murata

1958

1956

The Vampire Moth

as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô

1960

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Sosuke Otomo

1961

Immortal Love

as Policeman

1947

Marriage

as Fumie's father

1956

Love on Rainbow Island

as Shiimbei Hayashi

1956

White Fan

as Takuetsu

1944

Jubilation Street

as Shingo’s father

1960

The Man of Seven Faces

as Genkichi Miyashita

1957

1958

1957

An Osaka Story

as Gonzaemon Hoshino

1962

Our Marriage

as Father

1968

1983

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)

1977

Island of Hell

as Kaemon Kito

1964

Eddy Currents of Life

as Shigesuke Hayashi

1959

1959

The Beast Shall Die

as Detective Kuwashima

1978

Lord Mito

as Tokugawa Mitsukuni

1961

The Orphan Brother

as Sanshô Dayû (voice)

1944

Army

as Sakuragi

1966

Lost Sex

as Neighbor / Writer

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

as Seisaku Kajiwara

1969

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'

1961

The Red Shadow

as Jinzaburô Kamo

1956

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Chuici Nagumo

1990

Tales of a Golden Geisha

as Prime Minister

1955

Burden of Love

as Jozo Araki

1984

1963

1962

This Madding Crowd

as Grandpa Yoshi

1953

Shishun no izumi

as Nakamura, a policeman

1954

The Street Without Sun

as President Kunio

1954

The Surf

as Schoolmaster

1955

Floating Weeds Diary

as Magoro Ichikawa

1959

Ripe and Marriageable

as Saemon, Hikari's father

1966

A Company President's Life Story

as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)

1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)

1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)

1970

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

as Takeyunosuke Gōji

1970

Five Gents and a Kuniang

as Gōji Keinosuke

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