Chishū Ryū
Acting · Born 1904-05-13 · age 88 at death · 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Titles
Tokyo Story
Dreams
Late Spring
Red Beard
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
An Autumn Afternoon
Good Morning
The Bad Sleep Well
Until the End of the World
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Early Summer
Floating Weeds
Late Autumn
Equinox Flower
Tokyo Twilight
I Was Born, But...
The Only Son
The End of Summer
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Early Spring
Twenty-Four Eyes
There Was a Father
A Story of Floating Weeds
A Hen in the Wind
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
The Castle of Sand
A Taxing Woman's Return
The Funeral
The Rickshaw Man
The Munekata Sisters
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Woman of Tokyo
Japan's Longest Day
Love Letter
An Inn in Tokyo
Passing Fancy
That Night's Wife
Dragnet Girl
Carmen Comes Home
The Moon Has Risen
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Ornamental Hairpin
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Days of Youth
And Then
A Mother Should Be Loved
Love Under the Crucifix
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Army
Where Spring Comes Late
I Flunked, But...
The Human Bullet
The Last War
The Lady and the Beard
Boyhood
Children in the Wind
Satan's Sword
Port of Flowers
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Street Without End