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
1992
- Tora-san Makes Excuses as 御前样
- Luminous Moss as Judge
1991
- Until the End of the World as Mr. Mori
- Tora-san Confesses as 御前样
1990
- Dreams as Old Man
- Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
- Making of 'Dreams' as Self
- Tora-san Takes a Vacation as 御前样
1989
- Tora-san, My Uncle as 御前样
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna as 御前样
- Until Spring Comes
1988
- A Taxing Woman's Return as Former Priest
- Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial as 御前样
- 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 御前样
- Carefree Goddesses
- Crybaby Chacha
1986
1985
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters as Tayama Dosen
- Tokyo-Ga as Self
- Tora-san's Island Encounter as 御前样
- And Then as Toku Nagai
- Tora-san, the Go-Between as 御前样
- When Winter Comes
1984
- The Funeral as The Priest
- Tora-san's Forbidden Love as 御前样
- Marriage Counselor Tora-san as 御前样
- Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1983
1982
- The Longest Tunnel as Saiji Akutsu
- Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as 御前样
- Tora-san, the Expert as 御前样
- When We are Old
1981
- Tora-san's Love in Osaka as 御前样
- Tora-san's Promise as 御前样
1980
- Zoku zoku jiken
- A-Un
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever as 御前样
- Foster Daddy, Tora! as 御前样
1979
- Tokyo Suburbia
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring as 御前样
- Tora-san, the Matchmaker as 御前样
1978
1977
- Tora-san Plays Cupid as 御前样
- Tora-san Meets His Lordship as 御前样
1976
- Hi no kuni ni as 造園主・吉野公平
- The Roads Men Travel as Kadomae
- Tora-san's Pure Love as 御前样
- Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset as 御前样
- Oretachi no toki
1975
1974
- The Castle of Sand as Kojuro Kirihara
- Tora-san's Lovesick as 御前样
- Tora-san's Lullaby as 御前样
- Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
- Machi no Hi as Takushoku
1973
- Miyamoto Musashi as Takuan
- Tora-san Loves an Artist as 御前样
- Tora-san's Forget Me Not as 御前样
- Flower and Dragon
- Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro as 巨匠
1972
- Tora-san's Dear Old Home as 御前样
- Tora-san's Dream-Come-True as 御前样
- Home from the Sea as Ishizaki Senzo
1971
- Tora-san's Love Call as 御前样
- Tora-san's Shattered Romance as 御前样
- Tora-san, the Good Samaritan as 御前样
- おれは男だ！ as 小林源之助
- Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1970
- Tora-san, His Tender Love as 御前样
- Where Spring Comes Late as Genzo, So's father
- Tora-san's Grand Scheme as 御前样
- Tora-san's Runaway as 御前样
- The Last Kamikaze
- High-School Outcasts as Instructor Takeyama
1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea as General Maresuke Nogi
- Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp as 御前样
- The Lonely Scalpel
- Tora-san's Cherished Mother as 御前样
- Through Days and Months
- Fight for the Glory
1968
- The Human Bullet as Bookstore Owner
- Scrap Collectors
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
- The Black Sheep
- Traveling in Party
1966
- Warm Current as Yasuhide Shima
- Come Marry Me as Tamotsu's Grandfather
- Oyuki
- Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1965
- Tamayura as 直木良彦
- Red Beard as Mr. Yasumoto
- 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
- Monrō no yōna onna
- Dislikes
- I'm a Bodyguard
- Blue Eyed Bride as Maruhashi Gotaro
1963
- A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
- A Million Girls as Atsufumi Yashiro
- Sakiko-san chotto as 中川正一
- Tange Sazen
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
- Rush to Our Sweetheart
- Double Wedding as Noriko's Father
- Futari dake no toride
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon as Shuhei Hirayama
- Love Under the Crucifix as Sokei Nambo
- Drunkard's Paradise
- The Wiser Age as Kinjiro Ishikawa
- Zoku aizen katsura
- Four Sisters
- Yoru no keisha
- Dolls floating down the river as Neighbor
- Flower in a Storm
1961
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Hinanmin no Chôrô
- The End of Summer as Farmer
- The Last War as Ebara
- A Good Man, A Good Day as Ozeki Hitoshi
- Bandits on the Wind
- Student Executive
- The Youth and His Amulet
- Door of Flowers
- Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- Late Autumn as Shukichi Miwa
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Old man in the park
- Spring Dreams as Shinichirô Atsumi
- Satan's Sword as Tsukue
- The Wandering Princess as Kinoshita
- Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
- Only She Knows
- Storm on the Silvery Peaks as Monk
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
- Internees of Kampili as Vice-Admiral Shibata
1959
- Good Morning as Keitaro Hayashi
- Floating Weeds as Theatre Owner
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Komiya
- The Snow Flurry
- Farewell to Spring as Kôzô's father
- The White Road Across the River
- Bridge
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Shiozaki
- The Path Under the Platanes as Ichiro Ishimaru
- Love in the Mountains
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 Story of Zenta and Sanpei in the Ghost World
- The Story of Zenta and Sanpei: Kids in the Wind
- The Crowded Train as Genroku, the father
- The Last Escape as Ryu Kinihide
- The Face as Det. Hasegawa
- Flying in the Air
- Hearts A-Flutter as Shingo Wakasugi
1956
1955
- The Moon Has Risen as Asai Mokichi
- The Immortal Pitcher
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum as Masao - Age 73
- The First Kiss as Hasegawa
- Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
- The Refugee
- All is Well 2
- Striving to Live
- All is Well as Shingo Mori
- Stray Sheep as Professor Hirota
- Subarashiki shōtai
1954
- Twenty-Four Eyes as Otoko Sensei
- 新婚たくあん夫婦 as 品川夏堂
- Always in My Heart Part 3
- Autumn Interlude as Michio
- Haru no Wakakusa
- 慶安水滸傳 as 神尾備前守
- Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the Green Grass
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Sadao Hirayama
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Youth of the Son as Mr. Uemura
- The Waves
- Dôkoku
- Kyōshū
- Kare o korosu na
1951
- Early Summer as Koichi Mamiya
- Home Sweet Home as Kosaku Uemura
- Boyhood as Father
- Carmen Comes Home as Principal
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Tarobei Kamiya
- The Good Fairy as Ryôen Toba
- Beauty of Life
- Freedom School
1950
- Kazanmyaku
- The Munekata Sisters as Tadachika Munekata
- Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
- The Actress and the Detective
1949
- Late Spring as Shukichi Somiya
- Ishimatsu of the Forest
- Kekkon Sanjûshi
- Forgotten Children
1948
- A Visage to Remember
- A Hen in the Wind as Kazuichiro Satake
- The Man of Rumor as 藤森甚三
- A Woman Who Convicts Men
- Children Hand in Hand as Mr. Matsumura
- Great X as Chief of police
- The Fourth Lady
- Living Image
1947
1946
- The Woman Who Holds the Key
- Iki na fûraibô as Chôgorô Yamamoto
1945
1944
- Army as Tomosuke Takagi
- The Man Who Has Returned
- Sailor as Teacher (uncredited)
1943
- Navy as Major Kikuchi
- Port of Flowers as Nobadama
- Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
- 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 2
- South Wind
1941
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Shojiro's Friend
- Let's Go in Good Spirits as The Boss
- Introspection Tower as Mr. Kusama
- Ornamental Hairpin as Nanmura
- Flower
1939
1938
1937
- Song of the Flower Basket as Nenkai Hotta
- Goodbye to the Front
- Children in the Wind as Policeman
- The Golden Demon as Kuranosuke Kazahaya
- The Lights of Asakusa as Shin'ichi Katori
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It as George
- A Star Athlete as Tani
- Moon Over the Ruins as Conductor
1936
- The Only Son as Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher
- Housewife Camellia
- College Is a Nice Place as Amano
- The New Road: Akemi
- Boy Aviation Pilots
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
- Passing Fancy as Man on Boat
- Woman of Tokyo as Reporter
- 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
- That Night's Wife as Policeman
- I Flunked, But... as Student
1929
- Days of Youth as Student