Chishū Ryū
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.
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Roads Men Travel
8.2
A-Un
0
An Early Autumn
0
Haguregumo
6.5
Hi no kuni ni
0
Tamayura
0
Zoku zoku jiken
0
Tokyo Suburbia
0
The Lonely Scalpel
0
Movies
The Fourth Lady
0
The Longest Tunnel
0
Red Beard
8.117
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
8
Tora-san Confesses
8
Crybaby Chacha
0
Late Spring
8.006
Early Spring
7.5
Striving to Live
0
Late Autumn
7.8
The Bad Sleep Well
7.7
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7.797
Love in the Mountains
0
There Was a Father
6.953
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.4
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
0
Let's Go in Good Spirits
0
Equinox Flower
7.4
Good Morning
7.717
The End of Summer
7.5
Kaisen no Zenya
0
Gekimetsu no uta
0
Street Without End
6.6
The Funeral
7.2
Dolls floating down the river
0
Twenty-Four Eyes
7.7
The Rickshaw Man
7.229
Zoku aizen katsura
0
Futari dake no toride
0
Flower in a Storm
0
Mole Alley
0
Otome no iru kichi
0
Japan's Longest Day
7.1
Floating Weeds
7.476
The Soundless Cry
8
Tokyo Story
8.17
That Night's Wife
6.521
An Autumn Afternoon
7.853
Early Summer
7.843
The Only Son
7.388
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
7.204
Tokyo Twilight
7.714
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
7.532
The Munekata Sisters
6.984
Tokyo-Ga
7
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.9
Iki na fûraibô
0
Bridge
0
The Last War
6.2
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
0
The Human Bullet
6.1
Carmen Comes Home
6.2
Battle of the Japan Sea
6
Woman of Tokyo
6.8
Boyhood
6.7
Ornamental Hairpin
6.5
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
7
Master Fencer Sees the World
0
Youth of the Son
6.4
Passing Fancy
6.6
A Mother Should Be Loved
6.071
Utsukushiki Rinjin
0
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
9
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
7.4
The Snow Flurry
6.6
Army
6.857
Home from the Sea
7.2
Luminous Moss
5.5
White Blaze
0
Sailor
0
Children in the Wind
7.6
Tora-san Goes Religious?
8
The Eternal Rainbow
6.3
A Star Athlete
6
Boy Aviation Pilots
0
Housewife Camellia
0
Spring Dreams
5.8
Queen of the Wind
0
Mother is Strong
0
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
7.5
Southern Wind
0
Flower
0
South Wind
0
Tora-san's Love Call
8
Yoru no keisha
0
Love Under the Crucifix
6.889
Where Spring Comes Late
7.6
Tora-san's Lovesick
7.3
The Wandering Princess
6.7
The Moon Has Risen
6.773
Tora-san's Lullaby
7.5
慶安水滸傳
0
Tora-san, the Intellectual
7.7
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
7
Tora-san's Pure Love
8.5
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
8.5
The Radish and the Carrot
10
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
6
Drunkard's Paradise
0
Navy
0
All is Well
0
All is Well 2
0
Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.7
The Lights of Asakusa
5.6
Satan's Sword
6.625
Kare o korosu na
0
Kyōshū
0
Home Sweet Home
6.8
Sisters
0
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
0
Scrap Collectors
0
Door of Flowers
0
The Storm
9
Tora-san, My Uncle
8.7
Port of Flowers
7.2
Tora-san Makes Excuses
8
Freedom School
0
The Man Who Has Returned
0
Stage-Struck Tora-san
8
I Flunked, But...
6.1
Flying in the Air
0
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
6.5
Dragnet Girl
6.739
Talk of the Town Tora-san
9
Dreams
7.7
Our Planes Fly South
0
It's Tough Being a Man
8.1
Monument to Holy Service
0
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
8.5
The Lady and the Beard
5.9
Dislikes
0
The Crowded Train
6.75
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
0
Life's Simple Pleasures
0
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.1
When We are Old
0
Sennichimae fukin
0
Until Spring Comes
0
When Winter Comes
0
South Wind 2
0
The Woman Who Holds the Key
0
The Castle of Sand
7.4
Until the End of the World
6.77
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5
Always in My Heart
6.8
Always in My Heart Part 3
7
Fireworks Over the Sea
5
The Last Kamikaze
6
Traveling in Party
6
The Good Fairy
5.5
Farewell to Spring
6.2
Love Letter
6.8
The First Kiss
6.3
The Wiser Age
7.3
A Story of Floating Weeds
7.058
An Inn in Tokyo
6.9
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
8
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
8.5
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
7.5
Tora-san Plays Daddy
9
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
8.5
Tora-san's Promise
8
Tora-san, the Go-Between
6.5
Tora-san, the Expert
8.5
Tora-san's Island Encounter
8
Tora-san's Song of Love
8
Foster Daddy, Tora!
7.5
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
5.3
Stray Sheep
0
Rush to Our Sweetheart
0
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
7
Tange Sazen
0
A Visage to Remember
6.3
Internees of Kampili
0
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
6.1
The Golden Demon
6
Days of Youth
5.7
Song of the Flower Basket
0
The Black Sheep
0
Four Sisters
6
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
0
Oretachi no toki
0
High-School Outcasts
0
I Lived, But...
6.5
The Refugee
0
Miyamoto Musashi
7.1
Lanterns on Blue Waters
5.2
Flower and Dragon
10
The Waves
5
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
8
Great X
0
Moon Over the Ruins
5
Children Hand in Hand
0
Eyes of Children
7
The Face
0
Fight for the Glory
0
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
8
I Want to Be a Shellfish
10
College Is a Nice Place
0
Physical Beauty
0
Couple on the Move
0
Pumpkin
0
Wife Lost
0
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
6.8
Only She Knows
0
Tora-san, His Tender Love
7
The Youth and His Amulet
0
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
8
And Then
7
Introspection Tower
6.7
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
0
Dôkoku
0
The New Road: Akemi
7
Tora-san's Runaway
7.8
Come Marry Me
6
Gazing at Love and Death
7
The Greatest Man in the World
0
A Hen in the Wind
7.12
A Taxing Woman's Return
6.385
Hearts A-Flutter
0
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
0
Izu no musumetachi
0
The Four Loves
0
Dreams of Youth
0
Tora-san Loves an Artist
8
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
8
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
8
Double Wedding
0
Ishimatsu of the Forest
0
Talking with Ozu
6.5
A Brother and His Younger Sister
5.6
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
0
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
0
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
7.6
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
7.8
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
7.2
Tora-san Goes North
8.7
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8
Goodbye to the Front
0
Spring Thunder
0
Machi no Hi
0
Aoimoku no yome-han
0
Warm Current
0
Aiyoku no sabaki
0
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
0
Haru no Wakakusa
0
Beauty of Life
0
Forgotten Children
0
New Woman Question and Answer
6
Living Image
0
Love
0
Kekkon Sanjûshi
0
A Good Man, A Good Day
0
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
0
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
0
Kyukei no Koya
0
The White Road Across the River
0
I'm a Bodyguard
0
最後の攘夷党
0
Oyuki
0
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
0
Subarashiki shōtai
0
Monrō no yōna onna
0
Bandits on the Wind
0
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
0
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0