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