Chishū Ryū

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-05-13 (89 years old)

Deathday

1993-03-16

Place of Birth

Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Chishū Ryū

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on ...

Acting

1982

The Longest Tunnel

as Saiji Akutsu

1965

Red Beard

as Mr. Yasumoto

1949

Late Spring

as Shukichi Somiya

1956

Early Spring

as Kiichi Onodera

1960

Late Autumn

as Shukichi Miwa

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Public Prosecutor Nonaka

1942

There Was a Father

as Shuhei Horikawa

1958

Equinox Flower

as Shukichi Mikami

1959

Good Morning

as Keitaro Hayashi

1961

1945

Gekimetsu no uta

as 河上耕造

1934

Street Without End

as Yukihiko Chiba

1984

The Funeral

as The Priest

1954

Twenty-Four Eyes

as Otoko Sensei

1958

The Rickshaw Man

as Shigezo Yuki

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

1959

Floating Weeds

as Theatre Owner

1965

1953

Tokyo Story

as Shukichi Hirayama

1930

That Night's Wife

as Policeman

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Shuhei Hirayama

1951

Early Summer

as Koichi Mamiya

1936

The Only Son

as Teacher Okubo

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Shukichi Sugiyama

1950

The Munekata Sisters

as Tadachika Munekata

1985

Tokyo-Ga

as Self

1946

Iki na fûraibô

as Chôgorô Yamamoto

1959

1961

The Last War

as Ebara

1968

The Human Bullet

as Bookstore Man

1951

Carmen Comes Home

as Principal

1969

Battle of the Japan Sea

as General Maresuke Nogi

1933

Woman of Tokyo

as Reporter

1951

Boyhood

as Father

1941

1952

Youth of the Son

as Mr. Uemura

1933

Passing Fancy

as Man on Boat

1944

Army

as Tomosuke Takagi

1972

Home from the Sea

as Ishizaki Senzo

1992

1944

Sailor

as Teacher (uncredited)

1937

1983

Tora-san Goes Religious?

as the High Priest

1958

The Eternal Rainbow

as Naoji Kageyama

1937

1960

Spring Dreams

as Shinichirô Atsumi

1972

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

as the High Priest

1941

1971

Tora-san's Love Call

as the High Priest

1962

1970

Where Spring Comes Late

as Genzo, So's father

1974

Tora-san's Lovesick

as Gozen-sama

1960

1955

The Moon Has Risen

as Asai Mokichi

1974

Tora-san's Lullaby

as Gozen-sama

1954

慶安水滸傳

as 神尾備前守

1976

1943

Navy

as Major Kikuchi

1955

All is Well

as Shingo Mori

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

as Shin'ichi Katori

1960

Satan's Sword

as Tsukue

1951

Home Sweet Home

as Kosaku Uemura

1989

Tora-san, My Uncle

as Gozen-sama

1943

Port of Flowers

as Nobadama

1978

1930

I Flunked, But...

as Class mate

1933

Dragnet Girl

as Policeman

1978

1990

Dreams

as Old Man

1943

Our Planes Fly South

as Teacher Matsuki

1969

1979

1931

The Lady and the Beard

as (uncredited)

1957

The Crowded Train

as Genroku, the father

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

as Old man in the park

1974

The Castle of Sand

as Kojuro Kirihara

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

as Tarobei Kamiya

1951

The Good Fairy

as Ryôen Toba

1959

Farewell to Spring

as Kôzô's father

1955

The First Kiss

as Hasegawa

1962

The Wiser Age

as Kinjiro Ishikawa

1934

A Story of Floating Weeds

as Audience Member

1935

An Inn in Tokyo

as Policeman

1973

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

as the High Priest

1986

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

as the High Priest

1987

Tora-san Plays Daddy

as the High Priest

1982

1981

1981

Tora-san's Promise

as Gozen-sama

1985

Tora-san, the Go-Between

as the High Priest

1982

1985

Tora-san's Island Encounter

as the High Priest

1983

Tora-san's Song of Love

as the High Priest

1980

Foster Daddy, Tora!

as Gozen-sama

1964

1955

Stray Sheep

as Professor Hirota

1960

Internees of Kampili

as Vice-Admiral Shibata

1937

The Golden Demon

as Kuranosuke Kazahaya

1929

Days of Youth

as Student

1937

1970

High-School Outcasts

as Instructor Takeyama

1983

1973

1984

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

as the High Priest

1948

Great X

as Chief of police

1937

1948

Children Hand in Hand

as Mr. Matsumura

1957

The Face

as Det. Hasegawa

1970

1984

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

as the High Priest

1941

Introspection Tower

as Mr. Kusama

1970

Tora-san's Runaway

as High Priest

1966

Come Marry Me

as Tamotsu's Grandfather

1948

A Hen in the Wind

as Kazuichiro Satake

1988

A Taxing Woman's Return

as Former Priest

1957

Hearts A-Flutter

as Shingo Wakasugi

1965

The Four Loves

as Heitarô Misawa

1963

Double Wedding

as Noriko's Father

1993

Talking with Ozu

as Self (archival footage)

1939

1972

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

as the High Priest

1971

1971

1987

Tora-san Goes North

as the High Priest

1989

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

as the High Priest

1974

Machi no Hi

as Takushoku

1964

Aoimoku no yome-han

as Maruhashi Gotaro

1966

Warm Current

as Yasuhide Shima

1933

1961

A Good Man, A Good Day

as Ozeki Hitoshi

1959

1966

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