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Yūnosuke Itō

Acting Born Aug 3, 1919 Died Mar 11, 1980 Tokyo, Japan 177 credits
177
Total Credits
1947–1979
33 Years Career Span
17
Vault Titles
10
Key Co-Stars

Biography

Yūnosuke Itō was a Japanese film actor born on August 3, 1919, in Tokyo, Japan. He appeared in numerous films from 1932 to 1979. Itō is known for his acting career, with over 200 film appearances. He received the 1962 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Shinobi no Mono. The film scholar Stuart Galbraith IV has described Itō as a "horse-faced actor." Itō passed away on March 11, 1980, at the age of 60. His stage name is 伊藤雄之助, and he is also known as Yûnosu.

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Career

Career overview

Yūnosuke Itō was a Japanese film actor who appeared in numerous films from 1932 to 1979. He is known to have acted in over 200 films during his career. Itō's acting credits span multiple decades, with his work being featured in various Japanese films.

Itō received recognition for his acting abilities, specifically for his performance in the 1962 film Shinobi no Mono. This film is notable for its depiction of the ninja genre. Itō's portrayal in this film earned him the 1962 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor. This award is a testament to his skill as a supporting actor.

Itō's career as an actor was marked by his extensive involvement in the Japanese film industry. His work in over 200 films showcases his dedication to his craft. Itō's contributions to Japanese cinema have been notable, with his performances in various films leaving a lasting impact on the industry.

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Known for

Film

The Man Who Stole the Sun

as Bus Hijacker

3 Body Problem

as Detective Takakura

3 Body Problem

as Takakura / Detective

Professional Killers

1972
Film

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

as Retsudô Yagyû
Film

Japan's Longest Day

as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade
Film

Samurai Assassin

as Kenmotsu Hoshino
Film

High and Low

as Baba - National Shoes Executive
Film

Sanjuro

as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
Film

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

as Sandayû Momochi
Film

A Wanderer's Notebook

as Gorô Shirasaka
Film

The Ballad of Narayama

as Matayan's son

Frequent co-stars

Takashi Shimura 3 shared titles
Masao Shimizu 3 shared titles
Toshirō Mifune 3 shared titles
Takeshi Katō 3 shared titles
Eijirō Tōno 3 shared titles
Keiju Kobayashi 3 shared titles
Minoru Chiaki 2 shared titles
Kamatari Fujiwara 2 shared titles
Nobuo Nakamura 2 shared titles
Isao Kimura 2 shared titles

Career timeline

The Man Who Stole the Sun
Yokomizo Seishi Series
The Sea of Eden
Barefoot in Blue Jeans
Evil of DraculaEvil of Dracula
Time Within Memory
Professional KillersLone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
River Without a Bridge Part 2Hurry on a Sail to Dream
Red LionRiver Without a Bridge
The Funeral RacketThe Day the Sun RoseThe Human BulletSleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a WomanThe Woman Champion
Japan's Longest DayThe Wife of Seishu HanaokaScorpionThe Bogus Policeman
Greatest Boss of the Showa EraShinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
When the Flowers BloomSamurai AssassinFort GraveyardTale of Japanese BurglarsSanshiro Sugata
The Scarlet CamelliaCall My Black DiceFour Young SistersOh, Bomb!Fools at Work
High and LowKanto WandererThe Red WaterThe Hill is Full of FlowersFor Love and Money
SanjuroSakura OfficialNinja, A Band of AssassinsA Wanderer's NotebookElegant Beast
Hell's JugglerKaachanRed Flowers of HellAs the Clouds ScatterMannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
Youth in FuryThe Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of NightThe Sand City in ManchuriaThe World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's EternityThe Samurai Markets
The Telephone Rings in the EveningVagabond LoversThe Human WallThe Cast-OffEyes of Mother and Daughter
The Days of Evil WomenHis Scarlet CloakThe Ballad of NarayamaDoronko tengokuGiants and Toys
The Unbalanced WheelA Case of HonorThe Adventures of ChujiYellow Crow
The Burmese HarpThe Thick-Walled RoomI Will Buy YouThis Is HomeDotanba
Tsukiyo no kasaThe RefugeePoliceman's Diary, Part 2Policeman's DiaryThree Faces
The Cock Crows TwiceA BillionaireTurbid YouthHana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô rutenThe Valley Between Love and Death
The Blue RevolutionThe LoversWaseda UniversityWhite FishAn Edoite Judge
IkiruBeauty and the Thief恐妻時代Forty-Eight ManToday is Payday
Stolen LoveWedding MarchSekidô matsuri新遊侠伝　遊侠往来Bengawan Solo
Duel in the SunGolden BeastWhen We Came BackTenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night FogSanshiro of Ginza
Stray DogEndless PassionCase Files of Zenigata Heiji: Heiji Covers All of EdoNingen moyo
The Age of BeginningsThe Devil of Edo

Full Filmography

177 titles
  • The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) as Bus Hijacker
  • Yokomizo Seishi Series (1977) as Tetsunoshin Sengoku
  • The Sea of Eden (1976) as Principal
  • Barefoot in Blue Jeans (1975)
  • Evil of Dracula (1974) as Detective Takakura
  • Evil of Dracula (1974) as Takakura / Detective
  • Time Within Memory (1973)
  • Professional Killers (1972)
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  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) as Retsudô Yagyû
  • River Without a Bridge Part 2 (1970)
  • Hurry on a Sail to Dream (1970) as Kotaro Ushikura
  • Red Lion (1969)
  • River Without a Bridge (1969)
  • The Funeral Racket (1968) as Doctor
  • The Day the Sun Rose (1968)
  • The Human Bullet (1968) as Skipper
  • Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman (1968) as Jinnai
  • The Woman Champion (1968)
  • Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade
  • The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967) as Seishu's father
  • Scorpion (1967)
  • The Bogus Policeman (1967)
  • Greatest Boss of the Showa Era (1966)
  • Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies (1966) as Sadayu
  • When the Flowers Bloom (1965)
  • Samurai Assassin (1965) as Kenmotsu Hoshino
  • Fort Graveyard (1965) as Mochida
  • Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) as Lieutenant Ando
  • Sanshiro Sugata (1965)
  • Beast Alley (1965)
  • The Scarlet Camellia (1964) as Unno
  • Call My Black Dice (1964)
  • Four Young Sisters (1964) as Yuzo Komura
  • Oh, Bomb! (1964) as Daisaku Oona
  • Fools at Work (1964) as Red Dragonfly
  • Kakedashi keiji (1964)
  • High and Low (1963) as Baba - National Shoes Executive
  • Kanto Wanderer (1963) as Okaru Hachi
  • The Red Water (1963)
  • The Hill is Full of Flowers (1963) as President Yamada
  • For Love and Money (1963)
  • Teinen Taishoku (1963)
  • 若い東京の屋根の下 (1963)
  • Ninja in a Business Suit (1963)
  • Hot Spring Policeman (1963) as Rotaro Mochizuki
  • Sanjuro (1962) as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
  • Sakura Official (1962)
  • Ninja, A Band of Assassins (1962) as Sandayû Momochi
  • A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) as Gorô Shirasaka
  • Elegant Beast (1962) as Tokizo Maeda
  • Farm Girls (1962)
  • A Roaring Trade (1962)
  • Our Failures (1962)
  • Gakusei geisha koi to kenka (1962)
  • Genkuro Yoshitsune (1962)
  • Taiyō Sensei Seishunki (1962)
  • Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha (1962)
  • Hell's Juggler (1961)
  • Kaachan (1961) as Toyoda Yoshigurô
  • Red Flowers of Hell (1961)
  • As the Clouds Scatter (1961)
  • Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues (1961) as Asai
  • The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind (1961) as Captain Togawa
  • Youth in Fury (1960) as Goro Oseto
  • The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960) as Kikuzō Uetani
  • The Sand City in Manchuria (1960) as Huang
  • The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity (1960)
  • The Samurai Markets (1960)
  • The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush (1960)
  • Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)
  • Irohanihoheto (1960)
  • Hot Corner Murder (1960) as Fueki
  • Queen of the Treasure Island (1960) as Isobe Sakuzaemon
  • 遙かなる母の顔 (1960)
  • The Telephone Rings in the Evening (1959)
  • Vagabond Lovers (1959)
  • The Human Wall (1959)
  • The Cast-Off (1959) as Seyama
  • Eyes of Mother and Daughter (1959)
  • The Hidden Treasure (1959)
  • Echo in the Mountains (1959) as Hanabusa Itchō
  • People Waiting for Spring (1959) as Artist Morita
  • Koko ni otoko ari (1959)
  • Hiroi Ten (1959)
  • ある落日 (1959)
  • The Days of Evil Women (1958)
  • His Scarlet Cloak (1958)
  • The Ballad of Narayama (1958) as Matayan's son
  • Doronko tengoku (1958)
  • Giants and Toys (1958) as Junji Harukawa
  • Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki (1958) as Private first class Sasaki
  • Hibi no haishin (1958)
  • Botchan (1958) as Yamaarashi
  • The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend (1958) as The Fiend with Twenty Faces
  • The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man (1958) as The Fiend with Twenty Faces
  • Magistrate Ooka’s Legends (1958)
  • The Unbalanced Wheel (1957)
  • A Case of Honor (1957)
  • The Adventures of Chuji (1957) as Monk Koen
  • Yellow Crow (1957) as Ichiro Yoshida
  • The Burmese Harp (1956)
  • The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
  • I Will Buy You (1956) as Ippei Tamaki
  • This Is Home (1956)
  • Dotanba (1956)
  • Seishun wo warera ni (1956) as Yusuke Nanbu
  • Evil Reward (1956)
  • Tsukiyo no kasa (1955)
  • The Refugee (1955)
  • Policeman's Diary, Part 2 (1955)
  • Policeman's Diary (1955) as Iwata
  • Three Faces (1955)
  • The Big Ambition (1955)
  • The juvenile (1955) as Police detective Totsuka
  • The Rookie Managers (1955)
  • The Cock Crows Twice (1954)
  • A Billionaire (1954) as Politician
  • Turbid Youth (1954)
  • Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten (1954)
  • The Valley Between Love and Death (1954) as Dr. Matsumura
  • Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)
  • Three Loves (1954) as Father Yasugi
  • A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime (1954)
  • The Blue Revolution (1953)
  • The Lovers (1953) as Kaji
  • Waseda University (1953) as Koganei Daisuke
  • White Fish (1953) as Komiya
  • An Edoite Judge (1953) as Enma no Kitaro
  • Mr. Pu (1953) as Yonekichi Noro
  • Reunion (1953)
  • Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth (1953) as Hachigoro
  • First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband (1953) as Senkichi Miyama
  • Zoku jūdai no seiten (1953) as Mr. Senoo
  • Ikiru (1952) as Novelist
  • Beauty and the Thief (1952) as Dohachi
  • 恐妻時代 (1952) as Director Otani
  • Forty-Eight Man (1952)
  • Today is Payday (1952) as Director Koishi
  • Riverside Fish Market Empire (1952)
  • Forbidden Path (1952)
  • Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952) as Benitarô
  • Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido (1952) as Kitahachi
  • Love's Cheerleader (1952) as Philosophy Student
  • Sunset Over Mount Fuji (1952) as Shigeshiro Baba
  • Mr. Lucky (1952)
  • The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952)
  • Farewell to Spring (1952) as Toshikazu Kanemura
  • I Was a Prisoner in Siberia (1952)
  • お洒落狂女 (1952)
  • This Way, That Way (1952)
  • Stolen Love (1951) as Secretary Furuya
  • Wedding March (1951) as Jugoro Fujima
  • Sekidô matsuri (1951)
  • 新遊侠伝　遊侠往来 (1951)
  • Bengawan Solo (1951) as Noro Johei
  • Yasubei Nakayama (1951)
  • The Man Without a Nationality (1951) as Don-chan
  • 新遊侠伝 (1951)
  • Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain (1951) as Kojirô Naitô
  • Koibito (1951) as Laundry shop owner
  • Nightshade Flower (1951)
  • Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf (1951)
  • 風雲児 (1951)
  • Duel in the Sun (1950) as Worker
  • Golden Beast (1950)
  • When We Came Back (1950)
  • Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog (1950) as Sunosaki Masakichi
  • Sanshiro of Ginza (1950) as Madman
  • Red Peony of Night (1950)
  • Four Seasons of Women (1950) as Husband with children
  • Pursuit At Dawn (1950)
  • Stray Dog (1949) as Bluebird Theatre manager
  • Endless Passion (1949) as Cook
  • Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: Heiji Covers All of Edo (1949)
  • Ningen moyo (1949)
  • The Age of Beginnings (1947) as Writer Matsuura
  • The Devil of Edo (1947)

Frequently Asked Questions

What movies or TV shows is Yūnosuke Itō best known for?

Yūnosuke Itō is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979), 3 Body Problem (2024), 3 Body Problem (2024), Professional Killers (1972).

When and where was Yūnosuke Itō born?

Yūnosuke Itō was born on August 3, 1919 in Tokyo, Japan. They passed away on March 11, 1980.

How many credits does Yūnosuke Itō have?

Yūnosuke Itō has accumulated over 177 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1947 to 1979.

What is Yūnosuke Itō's background in cinema and television?

Yūnosuke Itō was a Japanese film actor born on August 3, 1919, in Tokyo, Japan. He appeared in numerous films from 1932 to 1979. Itō is known for his acting career, with over 200 film appearances. He received the 1962 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Shinobi no Mono. The film ...

Yūnosuke Itō by the numbers

177credits
175films
2TV series
1947–1979active years

Age in their best-rated roles

Full filmography (177) Born on August 3 In memoriam 1980

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