Chishū Ryū
Born: 1904-05-13 in Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1993-03-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1997
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version as High Priest
1992
- Tora-san Makes Excuses as High Priest
- Luminous Moss as Judge
1991
- Until the End of the World as Mr. Mori
- Tora-san Confesses as High Priest
1990
- Dreams as Old Man
- Tora-san Takes a Vacation as High Priest
- Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
- Making of 'Dreams' as Self
1989
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna as the High Priest
- Tora-san, My Uncle as Gozen-sama
- Until Spring Comes
1988
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Former Priest
- Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial as Gozen-sama
- Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio as Self
1987
- An Early Autumn
- Tora-san Goes North as the High Priest
- Tora-san Plays Daddy as the High Priest
- Carefree Goddesses
- Crybaby Chacha
1986
- Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
- Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy as the High Priest
- The Greatest Man in the World as Hermit
1985
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Tayama Dosen
- Tokyo-Ga as Self
- Tora-san's Island Encounter as the High Priest
- And Then as Toku Nagai
- Tora-san, the Go-Between as the High Priest
- When Winter Comes
1984
- The Funeral as The Priest
- Tora-san's Forbidden Love as the High Priest
- Marriage Counselor Tora-san as the High Priest
- Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1983
- Lanterns on Blue Waters
- I Lived, But... as Self
- Tora-san Goes Religious? as the High Priest
- Tora-san's Song of Love as the High Priest
- Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1982
- The Longest Tunnel as Saiji Akutsu
- Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as the High Priest
- Tora-san, the Expert as Gozen-sama
- When We are Old
1981
- Tora-san's Love in Osaka as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Promise as Gozen-sama
1980
- Zoku zoku jiken
- A-Un
- Foster Daddy, Tora! as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever as Priest
1979
- Tokyo Suburbia
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Tora-san, the Matchmaker as Gozen-sama
1978
- Haguregumo
- Stage-Struck Tora-san as Gozen-sama
- Talk of the Town Tora-san as Gozen-sama
- Monument to Holy Service
1977
- Tora-san Meets His Lordship as Gozensama
- Tora-san Plays Cupid as Priest
1976
- The Roads Men Travel as Kadomae
- Hi no kuni ni as 造園主・吉野公平
- Tora-san's Pure Love as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset as Priest
- Oretachi no toki
1975
- Tora-san, the Intellectual as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again as the High Priest
- Kyukei no Koya
1974
- The Castle of Sand as Kojuro Kirihara
- Tora-san's Lullaby as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Lovesick as Gozen-sama
- Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
- Machi no Hi as Takushoku
1973
- Miyamoto Musashi as Takuan
- Tora-san Loves an Artist
- Tora-san's Forget Me Not as the High Priest
- Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro as 巨匠
- Flower and Dragon
1972
- Home from the Sea as Ishizaki Senzo
- Tora-san's Dear Old Home as the High Priest
- Tora-san's Dream-Come-True as The High Priest
1971
- Tora-san's Shattered Romance as the High Priest
- おれは男だ！ as 小林源之助
- Tora-san's Love Call as the High Priest
- Tora-san, the Good Samaritan as the High Priest
- Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1970
- Tora-san's Grand Scheme as Priest
- The Last Kamikaze
- Tora-san, His Tender Love as High Priest
- Where Spring Comes Late as Genzo, So's father
- Tora-san's Runaway as High Priest
- High-School Outcasts as Instructor Takeyama
1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea as General Maresuke Nogi
- The Lonely Scalpel
- Tora-san's Cherished Mother as Gozensama
- Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp as Gozen-sama
- Through Days and Months
- Fight for the Glory
1968
- Scrap Collectors
- The Human Bullet as Bookstore Owner
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
- The Black Sheep
- Traveling in Party
1966
- Come Marry Me as Tamotsu's Grandfather
- Warm Current as Yasuhide Shima
- Ohana han: Dai ni bu
- Oyuki
1965
- Red Beard as Mr. Yasumoto
- Tamayura as 直木良彦
- The Four Loves as Heitarô Misawa
- The Radish and the Carrot
- The Soundless Cry as Tateno
1964
- Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii as Gôzô Tôyama
- Gazing at Love and Death
- I'm a Bodyguard
- Blue Eyed Bride as Maruhashi Gotaro
- Monrō no yōna onna
- Dislikes
1963
- A Million Girls as Atsufumi Yashiro
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- Double Wedding as Noriko's Father
- Futari dake no toride
- Tange Sazen
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
- Sakiko-san chotto as 中川正一
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Shuhei Hirayama
- Drunkard's Paradise
- Love Under the Crucifix as Sokei Nambo
- The Wiser Age as Kinjiro Ishikawa
- Four Sisters
- Dolls floating down the river as Neighbor
- Yoru no keisha
- Zoku aizen katsura
- Flower in a Storm
1961
- The End of Summer as Farmer
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Hinanmin no Chôrô
- The Last War as Ebara
- A Good Man, A Good Day as Ozeki Hitoshi
- Student Executive
- Bandits on the Wind
- Shin Jinsei Gekijo
- The Youth and His Amulet
- Door of Flowers
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- Late Autumn as Shukichi Miwa
- Only She Knows
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Old man in the park
- Spring Dreams as Shinichirô Atsumi
- The Wandering Princess as Kinoshita
- Satan's Sword as Tsukue
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- Internees of Kampili as Vice-Admiral Shibata
- Storm on the Silvery Peaks as Monk
- Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
- Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1959
- Good Morning as Keitaro Hayashi
- Floating Weeds as Theatre Owner
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Komiya
- The Snow Flurry
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Shiozaki
- Farewell to Spring as Kôzô's father
- The White Road Across the River
- Bridge
- Love in the Mountains
- The Path Under the Platanes as Ichiro Ishimaru
1958
- Equinox Flower as Shukichi Mikami
- The Rickshaw Man as Toyozo Yuki
- The Eternal Rainbow as Naoji Kageyama
- The College Hero as Professor Fujii
- Whirlpool of Flowers
- White Blaze
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Shukichi Sugiyama
- The Crowded Train as Genroku, the father
- Flying in the Air
- The Face as Det. Hasegawa
- Hearts A-Flutter as Shingo Wakasugi
- The Last Escape as Ryu Kinihide
1956
- Early Spring as Kiichi Onodera
- The Wicked Boy
- The Invisible 108th Unit
- Pure Love
- Eyes of Children
- The Storm
1955
- The Moon Has Risen as Asai Mokichi
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao - Age 73
- The Immortal Pitcher
- All is Well as Shingo Mori
- Striving to Live
- The First Kiss as Hasegawa
- The Refugee
- Stray Sheep as Professor Hirota
- All is Well 2
- Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
- Subarashiki shōtai
1954
- Twenty-Four Eyes as Otoko Sensei
- 慶安水滸傳 as 神尾備前守
- 新婚たくあん夫婦 as 品川夏堂
- Always in My Heart Part 3
- Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
- Haru no Wakakusa
- Autumn Interlude as Michio
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Sadao Hirayama
- Youth of the Son as Mr. Uemura
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Kare o korosu na
- Dôkoku
- The Waves
- Kyōshū
1951
- Home Sweet Home as Kosaku Uemura
- Early Summer as Koichi Mamiya
- The Good Fairy as Ryôen Toba
- Carmen Comes Home as Principal
- Freedom School
- Boyhood as Father
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tarobei Kamiya
- Beauty of Life
1950
- Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
- The Munekata Sisters as Tadachika Munekata
- Kazanmyaku
- The Actress and the Detective
1949
- Late Spring as Shukichi Somiya
- Ishimatsu of the Forest
- Kekkon Sanjûshi
- Forgotten Children
1948
- Children Hand in Hand as Mr. Matsumura
- A Hen in the Wind as Kazuichiro Satake
- A Visage to Remember
- A Woman Who Convicts Men
- The Man of Rumor as 藤森甚三
- Great X as Chief of police
- Living Image
- The Fourth Lady
1947
1946
- The Woman Who Holds the Key
- Iki na fûraibô as Chôgorô Yamamoto
1945
1944
- The Man Who Has Returned
- Army as Tomosuke Takagi
- Sailor as Teacher (uncredited)
1943
- Port of Flowers as Nobadama
- Navy as Major Kikuchi
- Our Planes Fly South as Teacher Matsuki
- Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
- Kaisen no Zenya
- Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1942
- There Was a Father as Shuhei Horikawa
- South Wind 2
- South Wind
1941
- Let's Go in Good Spirits as The Boss
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Shojiro's Friend
- Ornamental Hairpin as Nanmura
- Introspection Tower as Mr. Kusama
- Flower
1939
1938
1937
- Song of the Flower Basket as Nenkai Hotta
- Goodbye to the Front
- The Golden Demon as Kuranosuke Kazahaya
- A Star Athlete as Tani
- Children in the Wind as Policeman
- Moon Over the Ruins as Conductor
- The Lights of Asakusa as Shin'ichi Katori
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It as George
1936
- The Only Son as Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher
- Housewife Camellia
- Boy Aviation Pilots
- The New Road: Akemi
- College Is a Nice Place as Amano
1935
- An Inn in Tokyo as Policeman
1934
- A Story of Floating Weeds as Shouting Audience Member (uncredited)
- A Mother Should Be Loved as Hattori
- Street Without End as Yukihiko Chiba
1933
- Love
- Dragnet Girl as Policeman
- Passing Fancy as Man on Boat
- Woman of Tokyo as Reporter
1932
- I Was Born, But... as Home movie projectionist
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? as Shimazaki
1931
- The Lady and the Beard as (uncredited)
1930
- That Night's Wife as Policeman
- I Flunked, But... as Student
1929
- Days of Youth as Student