Chishū Ryū
ActingAlso Known As
笠 智衆, Chishû Ryû, Ryu Chishu, Chishuu Ryuu, Тисю Рю
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.
Movies
(275 total)
Tokyo Story
as Shukichi Hirayama
Dreams
as Old Man
Late Spring
as Shukichi Somiya
Red Beard
as Mr. Yasumoto
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei Hirayama
Good Morning
as Keitaro Hayashi
The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
Until the End of the World
as Mr. Mori
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no Chôrô
Early Summer
as Koichi Mamiya
Floating Weeds
as Theatre Owner
Late Autumn
as Shukichi Miwa
Equinox Flower
as Shukichi Mikami
Tokyo Twilight
as Shukichi Sugiyama
I Was Born, But...
as Home movie projectionist
The Only Son
as Teacher Okubo
The End of Summer
as Farmer
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
as Sadao Hirayama
Early Spring
as Kiichi Onodera
