Chishū Ryū profile
Actor profile

Chishū Ryū

13th May 1904 Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan Acting

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 Wikipedia.​

286 Movies 9 TV Shows 295 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Face poster
The Face 22nd January 1957 as Det. Hasegawa
Great X poster
Great X 7th May 1948 as Chief of police
Army poster
Army 7th December 1944 as Tomosuke Takagi
Sailor poster
Sailor 25th May 1944 as Teacher (uncredited)
Navy poster
Navy 8th December 1943 as Major Kikuchi