Chishū Ryū
Acting Born May 13, 1904 Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan 24 credits
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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Full filmography
- The Roads Men Travel (1976) as Kadomae
- Tokyo Story (1953) as Shukichi Hirayama
- Red Beard (1965) as Mr. Yasumoto
- Dreams (1990) as Old Man
- Late Spring (1949) as Shukichi Somiya
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) as Tayama Dosen
- Zoku zoku jiken (1980)
- Hi no kuni ni (1976) as 造園主・吉野公平
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960) as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) as Hinanmin no Chôrô
- A-Un (1980)
- Haguregumo (1978)
- Tamayura (1965) as 直木良彦
- Good Morning (1959) as Keitaro Hayashi
- Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
- Tokyo Suburbia (1979)
- Late Autumn (1960) as Shukichi Miwa
- An Early Autumn (1987)
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) as Sadao Hirayama
- Equinox Flower (1958) as Shukichi Mikami
- Early Spring (1956) as Kiichi Onodera
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as Shuhei Hirayama
- The End of Summer (1961) as Farmer
- The Funeral (1984) as The Priest