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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).
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Known For
Tokyo Story
(1953)
Shukichi Hirayama
Tokyo-Ga
(1985)
Self
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
(1985)
A monk
Late Autumn
(1960)
Shukichi Miwa
Red Beard
(1965)
Mr. Yasumoto
Dreams
(1990)
Old Man
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
(1961)
Hinanmin no Chôrô
Good Morning
(1959)
Keitaro Hayashi
Late Spring
(1949)
Shukichi Somiya
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
A Story of Floating Weeds
(1934)
Audience Member
Until the End of the World
(1991)
Mr. Mori
Floating Weeds
(1959)
Theatre Owner
Twenty-Four Eyes
(1954)
Otoko Sensei
An Autumn Afternoon
(1962)
Shuhei Hirayama
Passing Fancy
(1933)
Man on Boat
Full Filmography
Acting
Physical Beauty
(1928)
Couple on the Move
(1928)
Pumpkin
(1928)
Wife Lost
(1928)
Dreams of Youth
(1928)
Days of Youth
(1929)
Student
That Night's Wife
(1930)
Policeman
I Flunked, But...
(1930)
Class mate
The Lady and the Beard
(1931)
(uncredited)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
(1932)
Shimazaki
Woman of Tokyo
(1933)
Reporter
Passing Fancy
(1933)
Man on Boat
Dragnet Girl
(1933)
Policeman
Love
(1933)
A Mother Should Be Loved
(1934)
Hattori
A Story of Floating Weeds
(1934)
Audience Member
Street Without End
(1934)
Yukihiko Chiba
An Inn in Tokyo
(1935)
Policeman
The Only Son
(1936)
Teacher Okubo
College is a Nice Place
(1936)
Amano
The New Road: Akemi
(1936)
Housewife Camellia
(1936)
Boy Aviation Pilots
(1936)
Children in the Wind
(1937)
Policeman
A Star Athlete
(1937)
Tani
The Lights of Asakusa
(1937)
Shin'ichi Katori
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
(1937)
George
The Golden Demon
(1937)
Kuranosuke Kazahaya
Song of the Flower Basket
(1937)
Nenkai Hotta
Moon Over the Ruins
(1937)
Conductor
Goodbye to the Front
(1937)
Queen of the Wind
(1938)
A Brother and His Younger Sister
(1939)
Seizaburō Utsumi
Spring Thunder
(1939)
New Woman Question and Answer
(1939)
Mother is Strong
(1939)
Southern Wind
(1939)
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
(1940)
Utsukushiki Rinjin
(1940)
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
(1941)
Shojiro's Friend
Ornamental Hairpin
(1941)
Nanmura
Introspection Tower
(1941)
Mr. Kusama
Let's Go in Good Spirits
(1941)
The Boss
Flower
(1941)
There Was a Father
(1942)
Shuhei Horikawa
South Wind
(1942)
South Wind 2
(1942)
Port of Flowers
(1943)
Nobadama
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
(1943)
Kaisen no Zenya
(1943)
Navy
(1943)
Major Kikuchi
Our Planes Fly South
(1943)
Teacher Matsuki
Army
(1944)
Tomosuke Takagi
The Man Who Has Returned
(1944)
Sailor
(1944)
Teacher (uncredited)
Izu no musumetachi
(1945)
Otome no iru kichi
(1945)
Gekimetsu no uta
(1945)
河上耕造
Sennichimae fukin
(1945)
Iki na fûraibô
(1946)
Chôgorô Yamamoto
The Woman Who Holds the Key
(1946)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
(1947)
Tashiro
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
(1947)
A Visage to Remember
(1948)
Great X
(1948)
Chief of police
Children Hand in Hand
(1948)
Mr. Matsumura
A Hen in the Wind
(1948)
Kazuichiro Satake
Living Image
(1948)
The Fourth Lady
(1948)
Late Spring
(1949)
Shukichi Somiya
Ishimatsu of the Forest
(1949)
Forgotten Children
(1949)
Kekkon Sanjûshi
(1949)
The Munekata Sisters
(1950)
Tadachika Munekata
Early Summer
(1951)
Koichi Mamiya
Carmen Comes Home
(1951)
Principal
Boyhood
(1951)
Father
Home Sweet Home
(1951)
Kosaku Uemura
Fireworks Over the Sea
(1951)
Tarobei Kamiya
The Good Fairy
(1951)
Ryôen Toba
Beauty of Life
(1951)
Freedom School
(1951)
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
(1952)
Sadao Hirayama
Youth of the Son
(1952)
Mr. Uemura
The Waves
(1952)
Dôkoku
(1952)
彼を殺すな
(1952)
Kyōshū
(1952)
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
(1952)
Tokyo Story
(1953)
Shukichi Hirayama
Always in My Heart
(1953)
Always in My Heart Part 2
(1953)
Love Letter
(1953)
Aiyoku no sabaki
(1953)
Mole Alley
(1953)
Sisters
(1953)
Twenty-Four Eyes
(1954)
Otoko Sensei
Always in My Heart Part 3
(1954)
Haru no Wakakusa
(1954)
慶安水滸傳
(1954)
神尾備前守
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
(1954)
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
(1955)
Masao - Age 73
The Moon Has Risen
(1955)
Asai Mokichi
The First Kiss
(1955)
Hasegawa
Stray Sheep
(1955)
Professor Hirota
The Refugee
(1955)
Striving to Live
(1955)
All is Well
(1955)
All is Well 2
(1955)
Life's Simple Pleasures
(1955)
Early Spring
(1956)
Kiichi Onodera
The Storm
(1956)
Eyes of Children
(1956)
Tokyo Twilight
(1957)
Shukichi Sugiyama
The Crowded Train
(1957)
Genroku, the father
The Face
(1957)
Det. Hasegawa
Hearts A-Flutter
(1957)
Shingo Wakasugi
Flying in the Air
(1957)
Equinox Flower
(1958)
Shukichi Mikami
The Rickshaw Man
(1958)
Shigezo Yuki
The Eternal Rainbow
(1958)
Naoji Kageyama
White Blaze
(1958)
Good Morning
(1959)
Keitaro Hayashi
Floating Weeds
(1959)
Theatre Owner
The Snow Flurry
(1959)
Farewell to Spring
(1959)
Kôzô's father
I Want to Be a Shellfish
(1959)
Komiya
Love in the Mountains
(1959)
Bridge
(1959)
Late Autumn
(1960)
Shukichi Miwa
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
The Wandering Princess
(1960)
Kinoshita
Satan's Sword
(1960)
Tsukue
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
(1960)
Old man in the park
Spring Dreams
(1960)
Shinichirô Atsumi
Internees of Kampili
(1960)
Vice-Admiral Shibata
Only She Knows
(1960)
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
(1960)
Monk
Master Fencer Sees the World
(1960)
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
(1960)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
(1961)
Hinanmin no Chôrô
The End of Summer
(1961)
Farmer
The Last War
(1961)
Ebara
The Youth and His Amulet
(1961)
A Good Man, A Good Day
(1961)
Door of Flowers
(1961)
An Autumn Afternoon
(1962)
Shuhei Hirayama
Love Under the Crucifix
(1962)
Sokei Nambo
Drunkard's Paradise
(1962)
The Wiser Age
(1962)
Kinjiro Ishikawa
Four Sisters
(1962)
Dolls floating down the river
(1962)
Neighbor
Flower in a Storm
(1962)
Zoku aizen katsura
(1962)
Yoru no keisha
(1962)
Rush to Our Sweetheart
(1963)
Tange Sazen
(1963)
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
(1963)
Double Wedding
(1963)
Noriko's Father
Futari dake no toride
(1963)
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
(1964)
Gôzô Tôyama
Gazing at Love and Death
(1964)
Aoimoku no yome-han
(1964)
Maruhashi Gotaro
Dislikes
(1964)
Red Beard
(1965)
Mr. Yasumoto
The Radish and the Carrot
(1965)
The Four Loves
(1965)
Heitarô Misawa
The Soundless Cry
(1965)
Tateno
Come Marry Me
(1966)
Tamotsu's Grandfather
Warm Current
(1966)
Yasuhide Shima
Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Traveling in Party
(1967)
The Black Sheep
(1967)
The Human Bullet
(1968)
Bookstore Man
Scrap Collectors
(1968)
Battle of the Japan Sea
(1969)
General Maresuke Nogi
It's Tough Being a Man
(1969)
Gozen-sama
Fight for the Glory
(1969)
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
(1969)
Gozensama
The Last Kamikaze
(1970)
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
(1970)
Priest
Where Spring Comes Late
(1970)
Genzo, So's father
High-School Outcasts
(1970)
Instructor Takeyama
Tora-san, His Tender Love
(1970)
High Priest
Tora-san's Runaway
(1970)
High Priest
Tora-san's Love Call
(1971)
the High Priest
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
(1971)
the High Priest
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
(1971)
the High Priest
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
(1971)
Home from the Sea
(1972)
Ishizaki Senzo
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
(1972)
the High Priest
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
(1972)
the High Priest
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
(1973)
the High Priest
Flower and Dragon
(1973)
Miyamoto Musashi
(1973)
Takuan
Tora-san Loves an Artist
(1973)
Tora-san's Lovesick
(1974)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san's Lullaby
(1974)
Gozen-sama
The Castle of Sand
(1974)
Kojuro Kirihara
Machi no Hi
(1974)
Takushoku
Tora-san, the Intellectual
(1975)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
(1975)
the High Priest
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
(1976)
Priest
Tora-san's Pure Love
(1976)
Gozen-sama
Oretachi no toki
(1976)
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
(1977)
Gozensama
Tora-san Plays Cupid
(1977)
Priest
Stage-Struck Tora-san
(1978)
Gozen-sama
Talk of the Town Tora-san
(1978)
Gozen-sama
Monument to Holy Service
(1978)
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
(1979)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
(1979)
Foster Daddy, Tora!
(1980)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
(1980)
Priest
Tora-san's Promise
(1981)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
(1981)
Gozen-sama
The Longest Tunnel
(1982)
Saiji Akutsu
Tora-san, the Expert
(1982)
Gozen-sama
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
(1982)
the High Priest
When We are Old
(1982)
Tora-san Goes Religious?
(1983)
the High Priest
Tora-san's Song of Love
(1983)
the High Priest
I Lived, But...
(1983)
Self
Lanterns on Blue Waters
(1983)
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
(1983)
The Funeral
(1984)
The priest
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
(1984)
the High Priest
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
(1984)
the High Priest
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
(1985)
A monk
Tokyo-Ga
(1985)
Self
Tora-san's Island Encounter
(1985)
the High Priest
Tora-san, the Go-Between
(1985)
the High Priest
And Then
(1985)
When Winter Comes
(1985)
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
(1986)
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
(1986)
the High Priest
The Greatest Man in the World
(1986)
Hermit
Tora-san Plays Daddy
(1987)
the High Priest
Tora-san Goes North
(1987)
the High Priest
Crybaby Chacha
(1987)
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
(1988)
Gozen-sama
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio
(1988)
Self
A Taxing Woman's Return
(1988)
Former Priest
Tora-san, My Uncle
(1989)
Gozen-sama
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
(1989)
the High Priest
Until Spring Comes
(1989)
Dreams
(1990)
Old Man
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
(1990)
Self
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
(1990)
Until the End of the World
(1991)
Mr. Mori
Tora-san Confesses
(1991)
Luminous Moss
(1992)
Judge
Tora-san Makes Excuses
(1992)
Talking with Ozu
(1993)
Self (archival footage)