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Chishû Ryû (1904–1993)

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What an amazing career! Few can boast a longer one (64 years of activity). Few have been able to have to relate to three generations. And it is pretty sure that no one can compare with him in terms of faithfulness to a director: Chishu Ryu indeed appeared in no fewer than fifty-two out of fifty-four of his master Yasujirô Ozu... See full bio »

Born:

in Kumamoto, Japan

Died:

(age 88) in Yokohama, Japan
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1992 Tora-San Makes Excuses
priest
 
1992 Shiny Moss
Judge
 
1991 Tora-san Confesses
priest
 
1991 Until the End of the World
Mr. Mori
 
1990 Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Priest
 
1990 Dreams
Old Man
 
1989 Otoko wa tsurai yo: Boku no ojisan
Priest
 
1989 Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kokoro no tabiji
Priest
 
1988 Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Priest
 
1988 Marusa no onna 2
Moto Sôryo
 
1987 Tora-san Plays Daddy
Priest
 
1987 Kesa no aki (TV movie)
Kozo
 
1987 Tora-san Goes North
Gozensama
 
1987 Carefree Goddesses
Kumejiro Kimura
 
1986 Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Priest
 
1986 Kokushi muso
Hermit
 
1986 Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Tomo-san
 
1985 Tora-san's Island Encounter
Priest
 
1985 And Then
Toku Nagai
 
1985 Tora-san, the Go-between
Gozensama
 
1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A monk (uncredited)
 
1985 Fuyugamae (TV movie)
Keisaku Okada
 
1984 Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Gozensama
 
1984 The Funeral
The priest
 
1984 Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Priest
 
1983 Tora-san Goes Religious?
Priest
 
1983 Tora-san's Song of Love
Gozensama
 
1983 Kita no kuni kara '83 fuyu (TV movie)
Matsukichi Sawada (Taeko's grandfather)
 
1982 Tora-san, the Expert
Gozensama
 
1982 Nagaraeba (TV movie)
Ryukichi
 
1982 Kaikyô
Saiji Akutsu
 
1982 Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Priest
 
1981 Tora-san's Promise
Priest
 
1981 Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Gozensama
 
1980 Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kamome uta
Temple priest
 
1980 Tora's Tropical Fever
Priest
 
1979 Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Gozensama
 
1979 Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Gozensama
 
1978 Talk of the Town Tora-san
Gozensama
 
1978 Seishoku no ishibumi
 
1978 Stage-struck Tora-san
Priest
 
1977 Tora-san Plays Cupid
Priest
 
1977 Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Gozensama
 
1976 Tora's Pure Love
Gozen-sama
 
1976 Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Priest
 
1975 Tora-san, the Intellectual
Priest
 
1975 Tooi sekkin (TV movie)
Yamao's father
 
1975 Tora-san's Rise and Fall
Priest
 
1974 Tora-san's Lullaby
Priest
 
1974 The Castle of Sand
Kirihara
 
1974 Tora-san's Lovesick
Priest
 
1974 Machi no hi
Takushoku
 
1973 Tora-san Loves an Artist
Priest
 
1973 Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Priest
 
1973 Dokkoi daisaku (TV series)
School master
 
1973 Hashire! K-100 (TV series)
 
1973 Miyamoto Musashi
Takuan
 
1972 Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Priest
 
1972 Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Priest
 
1972 Ore wa otokoda! (TV series)
 
1972 Furusato
 
1972 Home from the Sea
Ishizaki Senzo
 
1971 Tora-san's Love Call
priest
 
1971 Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
priest
 
1971 Sushiya no Ken chan (TV series)
Grandfather
– Episode #1.1 (1971) … Grandfather
 
1971 Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Priest
 
1970 Where Spring Comes Late
Genzo, So's father
 
1970 Tora-san's Runaway
priest
 
1970 Fight for the Glory
Yonoshin
 
1970 Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Priest
 
1970 Tora-san, His Tender Love
Priest
 
1969 Tora-San's Cherished Mother
Gozensama
 
1969 Am I Trying
Gozensama
 
1969 Nihonkai daikaisen
General Maresuke Nogi
 
1969 Hi mo tsuki mo
 
1968 Scrap Collectors
Yamada's Grandfather
 
1968 The Human Bullet
Old man of used-book store
 
1967 Oyome ni oide
 
1967 Japan's Longest Day
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
 
1966 Warm Current
Yasuhide Shima
 
1965 Yottsu no koi no monogatari
Heitarô Misawa
 
1965 Radishes and Carrots
Tokichi Yamaki
 
1965 Tamayura (TV series)
 
1965 Red Beard
Mr. Yasumoto
 
1964 The Crest of Man
 
1964 Yume no Hawaii de bon odori
Gôzô Tôyama
 
1964 Tensai sagishi monogatari: Tanuki no hanamichi
Komai
 
1964 Ore wa bodigado
 
1964 Monro no youna onna
 
1963 Tange Sazen: zankoku no kawa
 
1963 Futari dake no toride
Gihachi
 
1962 An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama
 
1962 Zoku aizen katsura
 
1962 Love Under the Crucifix
Sôkei Nambô
 
1962 A Woman's Place
Ishikawa Kinjiro
 
1962 Yopparai tengoku
 
1961 Yato kaze no naka o hashiru
Village Priest
 
1961 The End of Summer
Farmer
 
1961 The Last War
 
1961 Gen to fudômyô-ô
 
1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Hinanmin no Chôrô
 
1961 Kojin kojitsu
 
1960 Late Autumn
Shukichi Miwa
 
1960 Satan's Sword
Tsukue
 
1960 The Bad Sleep Well
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
 
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Old man in the park
 
1960 Ginrei no ôja
Monk
 
1960 The Wandering Princess
Kinoshita
 
1960 Spring Dreams
 
1959 Floating Weeds
Theatre Owner
 
1959 Good Morning
Keitarô Hayashi
 
1959 Farewell to Spring
 
1959 The Path Under the Plane Trees
Ichiro Ishimaru
 
1959 Snow Flurry
 
1959 I Want to Be a Shellfish
 
1958 The Eternal Rainbow
Naoji Kageyama
 
1958 Daigaku no ninkimono
 
1958 Equinox Flower
Shukichi Mikami
 
1958 The Rickshaw Man
Shigezo Yuki
 
1958 Kuroi kafun
Naoto Tomori
 
1957 Yoshida to Sanpei monogatari: Ohanake no sekai
Grandfather Ono Jinshichi
 
1957 Saigo no dasso
 
1957 Tokyo Twilight
Shukichi Sugiyama
 
1957 The Crowded Streetcar
Genroku, the father
 
1957 Kao
Det. Hasegawa
 
1957 Sora yukaba
Sachiuemon, Jiro's father
 
1956 Okashi-na yatsu
Imamura
 
1956 Arashi
Shinji Mizusawa
 
1956 Furyô shônen
Utarô Ishizaka
 
1956 Eyes of Children
Sachiko's father
 
1956 Early Spring
Kiichi Onodera
 
1955 She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao - Age 73
 
1955 Kuchizuke
Prof. Hasegawa (segment 1)
 
1955 Natsume Soseki no Sanshirô
 
1955 Gokumonchô
 
1955 Bomeiki
 
1955 Zoku tenka taihei
 
1955 Tenka taihei
 
1955 Tsuki wa noborinu
Asai Mokichi
 
1954 Twenty-Four Eyes
Otoko Sensei
 
1953 Tokyo Story
Shukishi Hirayama
 
1953 Foolish Younger Brother
 
1953 Mole Alley
 
1953 Jinanbo
 
1952 Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Sadao Hirayama
 
1952 Nami
 
1952 My Sons' Youth
 
1951 Inochi uruwashi
Sokichi Imura
 
1951 Fireworks Over the Sea
Tarobe Kamiya
 
1951 Early Summer
Koichi Mamiya
 
1951 Boyhood
Father
 
1951/I Jiyû gakkô
 
1951 The Good Fairy
 
1951 Waga ya wa tanoshi
Kosaku Uemura
 
1951 Karumen kokyo ni kaeru
The principal
 
1950 The Munekata Sisters
Tadachika Munekata
 
1949 Wasurerareta kora
Schoolmaster Sugita
 
1949 Late Spring
Shukichi Somiya
 
1949 Waltz at Noon
 
1948 Ikiteiru gazô
Mugita Tanishi
 
1948 A Hen in the Wind
Kazuichiro Satake
 
1948 Te o tsunagu kora
 
1948 Omokage
 
1947 Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Tashiro
 
1946 Iki na fûraibô
Chôgorô Yamamoto
 
1945 Izu no musumetachi
Oda
 
1945 Gekimetsu no uta
 
1945 Saigo no joito
Kosai Wataru
 
1944 The Army
Tomosuke Takagi
 
1944 Kaette kita otoko
Shôzô Nakaseko
 
1943 Kaigun
 
1943 Aiki minami e tobu
 
1943 Port of Flowers
 
1942 Chichi ariki
Shuhei Horikawa
 
1941 Ornamental Hairpin
Osamura
 
1941 Hana
 
1941 Genkide yukôyo
 
1941 Todake no kyodai
Friend
 
1941 Introspection Tower
Mr. Kusama
 
1940 Aizen tsubaki
 
1940 Nishizumi senshacho-den
Osumi, Lieutenant
 
1939 Haha wa Tsuyoshi
 
1939 Gonin no kyodai
Kenichiro
 
1939 Shin josei mondo
 
1939 Shunrai
 
1937 The Lights of Asakusa
Katori Shinichi
 
1937 Okusama ni shirasu bekarazu
George
 
1937 Kôjô no tsuki
 
1937 Hana-kago no uta
Nenkai Hotta
 
1937 Hanagata senshu
Tani
 
1937 Children in the Wind
Policeman
 
1936 Shindo: Zempen Akemi no maki
 
1936 Hitozuma tsubaki
Watanabe Toraichi
 
1936 The Only Son
Professor Ookubo
 
1936 Daigaku yoitoko
Amano
 
1935 An Inn in Tokyo
Police man
 
1934 A Story of Floating Weeds
Shouting audience member (uncredited)
 
1934 Haha wo kowazuya
Hattori
 
1933 Passing Fancy
Man on boat (uncredited)
 
1933 Hijôsen no onna
Policeman
 
1933 Woman of Tokyo
Reporter
 
1933 Caress
 
1932 Seishun no yume imaizuko
Shimazaki
 
1932 I Was Born, But... (uncredited)
 
1932/I Manchurian Marching Song
 
1930 I Flunked, But...
Class mate
 
1930 That Night's Wife
Policeman
 
1929 Days of Youth
Student
 
1928 Nikutaibi
 
1928 Hikkoshi fufu
 
1928 Pumpkin
 
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1988 Making of 'A Taxing Woman 2' (video documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Tokyo-Ga (documentary)
Himself
 
1983 The Life and Works of Yasujiro Ozu (documentary)
Himself (as Chishuu Ryuu)
 

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Alternate Names:

Chishuu Ryuu

Height:

5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Personal Quote:

[on Yasujiro Ozu] Mr. Ozu looked happiest when he was engaged in writing a scenario with Mr. Kogo Noda, at the latter's cottage on the tableland of Nagano Prefecture. By the time he finished writing a script, after about four months' effort, he had already made up every image in every shot, so that he never changed the scenario after we went on the set... See more »

Trivia:

Appeared in 52 of Yasujiro Ozu's 54 films. See more »

Star Sign:

Taurus