Eijirō Tōno
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
286 acting credits
Acting · 286
Seven Samurai
1954
High and Low
1963
Tokyo Story
1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Yojimbo
1961
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Red Beard
1965
Good Morning
1959
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Stray Dog
1949
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
The Lower Depths
1957
The Ballad of Narayama
1958
Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
The Three Treasures
1959
Island of Hell
1977
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
The Wolves
1955
Pigs and Battleships
1961
Untamed Woman
1957
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963
Early Spring
1956
Pale Flower
1964
An Innocent Witch
1965
Samurai Assassin
1965
The Orphan Brother
1961
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Death of a Tea Master
1989
A House in the Quarter
1963
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Buddha
1961
Goyokin
1969
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1957
The Great White Tower
1966
I Live in Fear
1955
Foundry Town
1962
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990
Apostasy
1948
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
Immortal Love
1961
Choji Snack Bar
1983
Kill!
1968
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Here Is a Spring
1955
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967
Black River
1957
The Last Game
1979
Undercurrent
1956
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
The Twilight Story
1960
How Sorrowful
1956
Sword for Hire
1952
The Naked Executive
1964
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
The Great Wall
1962
Silence Has No Wings
1966
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957
The Bride from Japan
1959
The Masterless 47
1960
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
The Eleventh Hour
1957
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968
I Lived, But...
1983
Ôban
1957
Fight of the Gamblers
1963
The Last War
1961
Lord Mito
1978
The Great Road
1960
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1982
Army
1944
A Carpenter and Children
1962
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
Fine Man
1961
Twilight Saloon
1955
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Wind and waves of the South
1961
Sword of the Beast
1965
Facing to the Clouds
1962
Farewell to Dream
1956
The Surf
1954
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
Actress
1956
Late Night Confession
1949
The Bride is Fifteen
1964
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
Theater of Life
1958
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
Born in Sin
1962
Lost Sex
1966
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
1967
Heat and Mud
1950
The Human Wall
1959
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
The Man of Seven Faces
1960
The Navy
1963
The Beast Shall Die
1959
A Company President's Life Story
1966
Firefly Light
1958
The Spy
1965
Night Drum
1958
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
A Public Benefactor
1964
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963
Double Wedding
1963
Rice
1957
For This We Fight
1961
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
The Vampire Moth
1956
Police Precinct Part 13
1960
Beautiful Days
1955
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959
Rira no hana wasureji
1947
Girls Born in August
1963
Girls in the Orchard
1953
Hiroba no kōdoku
1953
The Naked Sun
1958
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
The Pirates
1960
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
This Madding Crowd
1962
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
Otome no iru kichi
1945
Season of Farewell
1962
Run, Genta, Run!
1961
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Policeman's Diary
1955
Navy
1943
The Street Without Sun
1954
Flame of My Love
1949
Dash to the Sun
1966
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968
Freedom School
1951
The Wild Geese
1953
Three Faces of Love
1967
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969
The Sunshine Girl
1963
Tange Sazen
1963
Port of Flowers
1943
I Will Buy You
1956
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
The King and His Vassal
1981
Pressure of Guilt
1963
Four and A Half Mats
1966
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
Devil's Gold
1950
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967
The Estuary
1961
Eddy Currents of Life
1964
Illusion of Blood
1965
The Bandits
1962
Floating Weeds Diary
1955
Our Happiness Alone
1964
So What
1988
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
Challenge to Live
1961
The Man From the Sea
1962
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967
The Shadow Daughter
1957
水戸黄門 第１部
1969
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
1967
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959
Jūdai no seiten
1953
Farewell to Spring
1952
A Grain of Wheat
1958
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
High Teen
1959
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
1971
The Glorious Days
1954
The War Without Weapons
1960
Yasubei Nakayama
1951
Adrift at Sea
1983
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
1971
Our Marriage
1962
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Salaryman's Medal
1965
Journey to the North
1967
The Gambling Samurai
1960
The Black Current
1954
Monsieur Zivaco
1967
Women's House
1954
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
Seinen no isu
1962
An Edo Magistrate
1961
水戸黄門 第2部
1970
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
Kill the Night Rose
1966
The Crimson Plains
1961
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
The Forest Is Alive
1956
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
風雲児
1951
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965
The Sandal Keeper
1964
Dynamite Doctor
1966
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
Marriage
1947
水戸黄門 第3部
1971
Days with Harasu
1989
White Fan
1956
Blood and Sea
1965
The Cock Crows Twice
1954
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Shishun no izumi
1953
The Days of Evil Women
1958
The Third Dead Angle
1959
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963
Song of Vengeance
1968
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970
Beauty and the Thief
1952
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967
A Story from Echigo
1964
An Osaka Story
1957
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969
Jubilation Street
1944
Musume to watashi
1962
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Murder on the Last Train
1955
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965
Mount Hakone
1962
Kaze no uchi so to
1959
Burden of Love
1955
The Young Women of Izu
1945
Sasaki Kojiro
1951
The Last Judgment
1965
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
Hateful Things
1957
The Naked General
1958
Industrial Spy Free-for-All
1967
The Yamabiko School
1952
Will to Conquer
1970
The Red Shadow
1961
The Master Spearman
1960
Rinchi
1949
Flowery Brothers
1956
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
The Stream of Youth
1959
A Man from Akagi
1950
The Forbidden Scoop
1960
Tears
1956
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
1984
Waseda University
1953
The Man from the Moon
1951
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958
The Young Beast
1958
Start Here
1965
The Burning Sun
1968
Himitsu
1952
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
The Sea of Eden
1963
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
The Brawler
1960
Ajisai no uta
1960
The Flame of Youth
1968
Goal for the Young
1967
Princess of Revenge
1958
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959
Crazy Big Discovery
1969
Sanctuary
1961
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946
白さぎと少年
1964