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
- Tora-san Confesses as High Priest
- Until the End of the World as Mr. Mori
1990
- Dreams as Old Man
- Tora-san Takes a Vacation as High Priest
- Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
1989
- Tora-san, My Uncle as Gozen-sama
- Until Spring Comes
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna as the High Priest
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
- Crybaby Chacha
- 自由な女神たち
- Tora-san Goes North as the High Priest
- Tora-san Plays Daddy as the High Priest
- An Early Autumn
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
- When Winter Comes
- Tora-san's Island Encounter as the High Priest
- And Then
- Tokyo-Ga as Self
- Tora-san, the Go-Between as the High Priest
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
- I Lived, But... as Self
- Tora-san Goes Religious? as the High Priest
- Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
- Tora-san's Song of Love as the High Priest
- Lanterns on Blue Waters
1982
- When We are Old
- The Longest Tunnel as Saiji Akutsu
- Tora-san, the Expert as Gozen-sama
- Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as the High Priest
1981
- Tora-san's Love in Osaka as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Promise as Gozen-sama
1980
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever as Priest
- Foster Daddy, Tora! as Gozen-sama
- Zoku zoku jiken
- A-Un
1979
- Tora-san, the Matchmaker as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Tokyo Suburbia
1978
- Talk of the Town Tora-san as Gozen-sama
- Monument to Holy Service
- Stage-Struck Tora-san as Gozen-sama
- Haguregumo
1977
- Tora-san Meets His Lordship as Gozensama
- Tora-san Plays Cupid as Priest
1976
- Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset as Priest
- Tora-san's Pure Love as Gozen-sama
- Oretachi no toki
- The Roads Men Travel as Kadomae
- Hi no kuni ni as 造園主・吉野公平
1975
- Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again as the High Priest
- Tora-san, the Intellectual as Gozen-sama
- Kyukei no Koya
1974
- Tora-san's Lovesick as Gozen-sama
- Tora-san's Lullaby as Gozen-sama
- The Castle of Sand as Kojuro Kirihara
- Machi no Hi as Takushoku
- Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1973
- Miyamoto Musashi as Takuan
- Tora-san's Forget Me Not as the High Priest
- Tora-san Loves an Artist
- 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
- Tora-san, the Good Samaritan as the High Priest
- Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
- Tora-san's Love Call as the High Priest
1970
- Tora-san, His Tender Love as High Priest
- Tora-san's Grand Scheme as Priest
- Tora-san's Runaway as High Priest
- Where Spring Comes Late as Genzo, So's father
- High-School Outcasts as Instructor Takeyama
- The Last Kamikaze
1969
- Tora-san's Cherished Mother as Gozensama
- Fight for the Glory
- Battle of the Japan Sea as General Maresuke Nogi
- It's Tough Being a Man as Gozen-sama
- The Lonely Scalpel
1968
- Scrap Collectors
- The Human Bullet as Bookstore Man
1967
- Traveling in Party
- The Black Sheep
- Japan's Longest Day as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
1966
- Ohana han: Dai ni bu
- Warm Current as Yasuhide Shima
- Oyuki
- Come Marry Me as Tamotsu's Grandfather
1965
- Red Beard as Mr. Yasumoto
- The Four Loves as Heitarô Misawa
- The Soundless Cry as Tateno
- The Radish and the Carrot
- Tamayura as 直木良彦
1964
- Gazing at Love and Death
- Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii as Gôzô Tôyama
- Dislikes
- I'm a Bodyguard
- Monrō no yōna onna
- Blue Eyed Bride as Maruhashi Gotaro
1963
- Futari dake no toride
- Tange Sazen
- Double Wedding as Noriko's Father
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- 咲子さんちょっと as 中川正一
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Shuhei Hirayama
- Love Under the Crucifix as Sokei Nambo
- Drunkard's Paradise
- The Wiser Age as Kinjiro Ishikawa
- Yoru no keisha
- Four Sisters
- Dolls floating down the river as Neighbor
- Flower in a Storm
- Zoku aizen katsura
1961
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Hinanmin no Chôrô
- The End of Summer as Farmer
- A Good Man, A Good Day as Ozeki Hitoshi
- Shin Jinsei Gekijo
- The Last War as Ebara
- Door of Flowers
- The Youth and His Amulet
- Bandits on the Wind
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- The Wandering Princess as Kinoshita
- Late Autumn as Shukichi Miwa
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Old man in the park
- Satan's Sword as Tsukue
- Spring Dreams as Shinichirô Atsumi
- Only She Knows
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
- Storm on the Silvery Peaks as Monk
- Internees of Kampili as Vice-Admiral Shibata
1959
- Floating Weeds as Theatre Owner
- The Snow Flurry
- Farewell to Spring as Kôzô's father
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Komiya
- The White Road Across the River
- Bridge
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Shiozaki
- Love in the Mountains
- Good Morning as Keitaro Hayashi
- The Path Under the Platanes as Ichiro Ishimaru
1958
- The Eternal Rainbow as Naoji Kageyama
- The Rickshaw Man as Toyozo Yuki
- White Blaze
- The College Hero as Professor Fujii
- Equinox Flower as Shukichi Mikami
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Shukichi Sugiyama
- Flying in the Air
- The Crowded Train as Genroku, the father
- The Face as Det. Hasegawa
- Hearts A-Flutter as Shingo Wakasugi
1956
- Early Spring as Kiichi Onodera
- Eyes of Children
- The Storm
1955
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao - Age 73
- The Moon Has Risen as Asai Mokichi
- Stray Sheep as Professor Hirota
- All is Well 2
- Striving to Live
- Life's Simple Pleasures
- The First Kiss as Hasegawa
- Subarashiki shōtai
- All is Well as Shingo Mori
- The Refugee
1954
- Twenty-Four Eyes as Otoko Sensei
- 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
- Haru no Wakakusa
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Sadao Hirayama
- The Waves
- Dôkoku
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Kare o korosu na
- Kyōshū
- Youth of the Son as Mr. Uemura
1951
- Early Summer as Koichi Mamiya
- Carmen Comes Home as Principal
- Freedom School
- Boyhood as Father
- The Good Fairy as Ryôen Toba
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tarobei Kamiya
- Home Sweet Home as Kosaku Uemura
- Beauty of Life
1950
- The Munekata Sisters as Tadachika Munekata
1949
- Late Spring as Shukichi Somiya
- Ishimatsu of the Forest
- Kekkon Sanjûshi
- Forgotten Children
1948
- Great X as Chief of police
- Children Hand in Hand as Mr. Matsumura
- A Hen in the Wind as Kazuichiro Satake
- A Visage to Remember
- Living Image
- The Fourth Lady
1947
1946
- The Woman Who Holds the Key
- Iki na fûraibô as Chôgorô Yamamoto
1944
- Army as Tomosuke Takagi
- The Man Who Has Returned
- Sailor as Teacher (uncredited)
1943
- Navy as Major Kikuchi
- Our Planes Fly South as Teacher Matsuki
- Port of Flowers as Nobadama
- Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
- Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
- Kaisen no Zenya
1942
- South Wind 2
- South Wind
- There Was a Father as Shuhei Horikawa
1941
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Shojiro's Friend
- Introspection Tower as Mr. Kusama
- Let's Go in Good Spirits as The Boss
- Flower
- Ornamental Hairpin as Nanmura
1939
1938
1937
- The Lights of Asakusa as Shin'ichi Katori
- Song of the Flower Basket as Nenkai Hotta
- The Golden Demon as Kuranosuke Kazahaya
- A Star Athlete as Tani
- Moon Over the Ruins as Conductor
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It as George
- Children in the Wind as Policeman
- Goodbye to the Front
1936
- The New Road: Akemi
- The Only Son as Teacher Okubo
- Boy Aviation Pilots
- College Is a Nice Place as Amano
- Housewife Camellia
1935
- An Inn in Tokyo as Policeman
1934
- A Story of Floating Weeds as Audience Member
- A Mother Should Be Loved as Hattori
- Street Without End as Yukihiko Chiba
1933
- Dragnet Girl as Policeman
- Woman of Tokyo as Reporter
- Love
- Passing Fancy as Man on Boat
1932
- 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