Chishū Ryū
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.
298 acting credits
Acting · 298
The Roads Men Travel
1976
Tokyo Story
1953
Zoku zoku jiken
1980
Tamayura
1965
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
Hi no kuni ni
1976
Red Beard
1965
A-Un
1980
Good Morning
1959
Dreams
1990
Haguregumo
1978
Late Spring
1949
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
An Early Autumn
1987
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Tokyo Suburbia
1979
Until the End of the World
1991
Late Autumn
1960
The Funeral
1984
Equinox Flower
1958
The End of Summer
1961
Early Summer
1951
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952
Floating Weeds
1959
Japan's Longest Day
1967
Satan's Sword
1960
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
The Lonely Scalpel
1969
Early Spring
1956
Spring Dreams
1960
There Was a Father
1942
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954
The Castle of Sand
1974
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Miyamoto Musashi
1973
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969
I Was Born, But...
1932
Tora-san's Love Call
1971
A Hen in the Wind
1948
The Crowded Train
1957
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934
Street Without End
1934
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984
Farewell to Spring
1959
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
The Munekata Sisters
1950
The Rickshaw Man
1958
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
The Wiser Age
1962
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981
The Only Son
1936
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976
The Wandering Princess
1960
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
The Human Bullet
1968
All is Well
1955
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976
Tora-san's Runaway
1970
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
Mole Alley
1953
Always in My Heart
1953
The Last Kamikaze
1970
And Then
1985
Carmen Comes Home
1951
I Lived, But...
1983
Four Sisters
1962
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988
The Last War
1961
College Is a Nice Place
1936
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984
The Longest Tunnel
1982
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Kyukei no Koya
1975
Army
1944
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983
Yoru no keisha
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
1962
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1983
Tokyo-Ga
1985
The Moon Has Risen
1955
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941
Flower and Dragon
1973
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986
Making of 'Dreams'
1990
Where Spring Comes Late
1970
Striving to Live
1955
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Luminous Moss
1992
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966
The Four Loves
1965
Dragnet Girl
1933
An Inn in Tokyo
1935
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949
All is Well 2
1955
Until Spring Comes
1989
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
慶安水滸傳
1954
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
The First Kiss
1955
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974
Tora-san Goes North
1987
Monument to Holy Service
1978
The Refugee
1955
Love Letter
1953
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988
Double Wedding
1963
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
Stray Sheep
1955
Bandits on the Wind
1961
The Youth and His Amulet
1961
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992
Ornamental Hairpin
1941
The Storm
1956
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971
The Waves
1952
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
1988
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
The Eternal Rainbow
1958
Otome no iru kichi
1945
The Soundless Cry
1965
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959
Iki na fûraibô
1946
Spring Thunder
1939
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
Navy
1943
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990
When Winter Comes
1985
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971
Machi no Hi
1974
Freedom School
1951
Fight for the Glory
1969
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997
That Night's Wife
1930
Days of Youth
1929
Tange Sazen
1963
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975
Great X
1948
Port of Flowers
1943
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
Hearts A-Flutter
1957
Beauty of Life
1951
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Crybaby Chacha
1987
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
High-School Outcasts
1970
Living Image
1948
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977
Tora-san's Promise
1981
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
Boyhood
1951
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934
The Greatest Man in the World
1986
The Good Fairy
1951
Futari dake no toride
1963
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939
Tora-san Confesses
1991
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1961
I Flunked, But...
1930
Children in the Wind
1937
Subarashiki shōtai
1955
Youth of the Son
1952
Woman of Tokyo
1933
Love
1933
Love in the Mountains
1959
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972
Kare o korosu na
1952
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954
Oretachi no toki
1976
Haru no Wakakusa
1954
The Lady and the Beard
1931
A Star Athlete
1937
The New Road: Akemi
1936
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
Moon Over the Ruins
1937
Eyes of Children
1956
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
1964
The Black Sheep
1967
Home from the Sea
1972
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959
South Wind 2
1942
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1940
最後の攘夷党
1945
South Wind
1942
The White Road Across the River
1959
Our Planes Fly South
1943
The Snow Flurry
1959
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973
Dolls floating down the river
1962
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979
White Blaze
1958
Passing Fancy
1933
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974
Oyuki
1966
Southern Wind
1939
Traveling in Party
1967
Queen of the Wind
1938
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
Dislikes
1964
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973
Introspection Tower
1941
Bridge
1959
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
When We are Old
1982
Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
1955
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
The Fourth Lady
1948
Sisters
1953
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1971
Flying in the Air
1957
Kyōshū
1952
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960
Gekimetsu no uta
1945
Dôkoku
1952
Sailor
1944
Sennichimae fukin
1945
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1963
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963
The Face
1957
Kaisen no Zenya
1943
Housewife Camellia
1936
Flower in a Storm
1962
Only She Knows
1960
Let's Go in Good Spirits
1941
The Young Women of Izu
1945
Blue Eyed Bride
1964
Dreams of Youth
1928
Door of Flowers
1961
Boy Aviation Pilots
1936
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1947
Mother is Strong
1939
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1943
Warm Current
1966
Forgotten Children
1949
Flower
1941
Home Sweet Home
1951
The Golden Demon
1937
Wife Lost
1928
A Million Girls
1963
The Man Who Has Returned
1944
New Woman Question and Answer
1939
Carefree Goddesses
1987
A Visage to Remember
1948
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984
Physical Beauty
1928
Goodbye to the Front
1937
Children Hand in Hand
1948
Internees of Kampili
1960
The College Hero
1958
Come Marry Me
1966
Couple on the Move
1928
Song of the Flower Basket
1937
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958
Scrap Collectors
1968
The Path Under the Platanes
1959
Pumpkin
1928
The Immortal Pitcher
1955
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
1960
Sakiko-san chotto
1963
Through Days and Months
1969
Autumn Interlude
1954
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
The Wicked Boy
1956
The Last Escape
1957
Student Executive
1961
Pure Love
1956
新婚たくあん夫婦
1954
The Man of Rumor
1948
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
1973