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Chishū Ryū

Acting · Born May 13, 1904 · Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

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).

Movies with Chishū Ryū

• Red Beard (1965) — Mr. Yasumoto
• Dreams (1990) — Old Man
• Tokyo Story (1953) — Shukichi Hirayama
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) — Tayama Dosen
• Late Spring (1949) — Shukichi Somiya
• Until the End of the World (1991) — Mr. Mori
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) — Hinanmin no Chôrô
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960) — Public Prosecutor Nonaka
• The End of Summer (1961) — Farmer
• Good Morning (1959) — Keitaro Hayashi
• An Autumn Afternoon (1962) — Shuhei Hirayama
• The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) — Sadao Hirayama

TV shows with Chishū Ryū

• Tamayura (1965) — 直木良彦
• Hi no kuni ni (1976) — 造園主・吉野公平
• Haguregumo (1978)
• Tokyo Suburbia (1979)
• A-Un (1980)
• The Lonely Scalpel (1969)