Eijirō Tōno
Acting • Born 1907-09-17 – Died 1994-09-08
Biography
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).
Filmography
278 credits
Seven Samurai
Movie • 1954
Kidnapper
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Movie • 1967
Narrator
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Goheiji
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Tokichi Hattori
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Old man from Brazil
Pigs and Battleships
Movie • 1961
Kan'ichi
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Yojimbo
Movie • 1961
Gonji, Tavern Keeper
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Tomekichi the Tinker
Death of a Tea Master
Movie • 1989
Kokei
High and Low
Movie • 1963
Factory Worker
Heat and Mud
Movie • 1950
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Movie • 1952
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Hiroshi Tomizawa
Rinchi
Movie • 1949
Untamed Woman
Movie • 1957
Oshima's father
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Movie • 1962
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Pale Flower
Movie • 1964
Yasuoka
Yasubei Nakayama
Movie • 1951
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
Movie • 1962
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
Jurota
Farewell to Spring
Movie • 1952
Sakichi Arakawa
Hunter in the Dark
Movie • 1979
Shogen
Musume to watashi
Movie • 1962
Kill!
Movie • 1968
Hyogo Moriuchi
Shimizu Port Salaryman
Movie • 1962
Sword of the Beast
Movie • 1965
Minister
Seinen no isu
Movie • 1962
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Numata
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Foundry Town
Movie • 1962
Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
A Man from Akagi
Movie • 1950
The Great Wall
Movie • 1962
Li Tang
Hiroba no kōdoku
Movie • 1953
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
Movie • 1951
Dynamite Doctor
Movie • 1966
Marshal
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Movie • 1968
Ganko (voice)
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Movie • 1967
Senzo
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Movie • 1963
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
The Estuary
Movie • 1961
Sasaki Kojiro
Movie • 1951
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Movie • 1963
Akiharu
The Naked Executive
Movie • 1964
Kosugi, president
Children of Hiroshima
Movie • 1952
Facing to the Clouds
Movie • 1962
Oban kanketsu hen
Movie • 1958
Ôban
Movie • 1957
Chaplin-San
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Movie • 1957
Chaplin san
The Bride from Japan
Movie • 1959
Mieko's father
Samurai Assassin
Movie • 1965
Masagorō Kisoya
The Last War
Movie • 1961
Captain Umehara
Black River
Movie • 1957
Kurihara
Flame of My Love
Movie • 1949
State Councillor Itô
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie • 1957
Fugetsusai
I Will Buy You
Movie • 1956
Ogushi
Morning for the Osone Family
Movie • 1946
Ippei Yamaka
Twilight Saloon
Movie • 1955
Onizuka
The Wild Geese
Movie • 1953
Suezo
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Movie • 1958
Fugetsusai
Farewell to Dream
Movie • 1956
Yôichi's father, Genkichi
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
Movie • 1982
The King and His Vassal
Movie • 1981
Blood and Sea
Movie • 1965
Police Precinct: Car 108
Movie • 1959
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
Movie • 1968
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
Movie • 1961
The Great White Tower
Movie • 1966
Days with Harasu
Movie • 1989
The Masterless 47
Movie • 1960
Gonosuke Kira
Navy
Movie • 1943
Teacher Ogata
The Crimson Plains
Movie • 1961
Shinzô Okui
Dash to the Sun
Movie • 1966
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Movie • 1961
The Forest Is Alive
Movie • 1956
Kaze no uchi so to
Movie • 1959
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Movie • 1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Movie • 1950
Port of Flowers
Movie • 1943
Hayashida
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
Journey to the North
Movie • 1967
Kichinosuke Kawara
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Movie • 1961
Mount Hakone
Movie • 1962
Jūdai no seiten
Movie • 1953
風雲児
Movie • 1951
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Movie • 1958
Chamberlain
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie • 1962
Priest
An Edo Magistrate
Movie • 1961
My Hometown is the Wild West
Movie • 1960
The Battle of Okinawa
Movie • 1971
Song of Vengeance
Movie • 1968
看守Ａ
Will to Conquer
Movie • 1970
Four and A Half Mats
Movie • 1966
Uyu
Ginza Cosmetics
Movie • 1951
Hyôbei Sugano
Monument to the Girl's Corps
Movie • 1968
Nakaji, Principal
Buddha
Movie • 1961
Suratha
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
Movie • 1952
A Carpenter and Children
Movie • 1962
Undercurrent
Movie • 1956
Yujiro Funaki
Here Is a Spring
Movie • 1955
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Old man Murata
The Wolves
Movie • 1955
A Grain of Wheat
Movie • 1958
Aisawa
Run, Genta, Run!
Movie • 1961
Illusion of Blood
Movie • 1965
The Vampire Moth
Movie • 1956
Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
Apostasy
Movie • 1948
How Sorrowful
Movie • 1956
Firefly Light
Movie • 1958
The War Without Weapons
Movie • 1960
Night Drum
Movie • 1958
The Spy
Movie • 1965
The Man From the Sea
Movie • 1962
The Legend of the White Serpent
Movie • 1956
Late Night Confession
Movie • 1949
Boss Takes to the Road
Movie • 1961
The Twilight Story
Movie • 1960
The Gambling Samurai
Movie • 1960
Kansuke
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Movie • 1963
Sosuke Otomo
The Sandal Keeper
Movie • 1964
Immortal Love
Movie • 1961
Policeman
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Movie • 1963
An Innocent Witch
Movie • 1965
The Human Wall
Movie • 1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Movie • 1959
Marriage
Movie • 1947
Fumie's father
Love on Rainbow Island
Movie • 1956
Shiimbei Hayashi
White Fan
Movie • 1956
Takuetsu
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959
Policeman
Jubilation Street
Movie • 1944
Shingo’s father
The Man of Seven Faces
Movie • 1960
Genkichi Miyashita
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Movie • 1957
Kansuke
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
Movie • 1954
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1963
Rice
Movie • 1957
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Movie • 1948
Yoshii
So What
Movie • 1988
The Black Current
Movie • 1954
The Ballad of Narayama
Movie • 1958
Messenger
A House in the Quarter
Movie • 1963
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Haiya
Our Marriage
Movie • 1962
Father
An Osaka Story
Movie • 1957
Gonzaemon Hoshino
Season of Farewell
Movie • 1962
The Saga of Tanegashima
Movie • 1968
Kinbei Yaita
Sword for Hire
Movie • 1952
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Movie • 1965
Seizo
Life of Hishakaku 2
Movie • 1963
The Bandits
Movie • 1962
I Lived, But...
Movie • 1983
Self
Fine Man
Movie • 1961
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Baiken Shishido
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie • 1958
Island of Hell
Movie • 1977
Kaemon Kito
The Sunshine Girl
Movie • 1963
Our Happiness Alone
Movie • 1964
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
Movie • 1963
Three Faces of Love
Movie • 1967
Soga
The Cock Crows Twice
Movie • 1954
Choji Snack Bar
Movie • 1983
Pressure of Guilt
Movie • 1963
Born in Sin
Movie • 1962
The Days of Evil Women
Movie • 1958
Murder on the Last Train
Movie • 1955
Eddy Currents of Life
Movie • 1964
Shigesuke Hayashi
The Third Dead Angle
Movie • 1959
The Naked Sun
Movie • 1958
The Three Treasures
Movie • 1959
Ootomo
The Beast Shall Die
Movie • 1959
Detective Kuwashima
Lord Mito
Movie • 1978
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
The Orphan Brother
Movie • 1961
Sanshô Dayû (voice)
Flowery Brothers
Movie • 1956
Challenge to Live
Movie • 1961
Army
Movie • 1944
Sakuragi
The Master Spearman
Movie • 1960
Lost Sex
Movie • 1966
Neighbor / Writer
Silence Has No Wings
Movie • 1966
Wait for Tomorrow
Movie • 1960
Seisaku Kajiwara
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Movie • 1969
Sanpo Sensei
The Naked General
Movie • 1958
Girls Born in August
Movie • 1963
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 1962
Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
The Red Shadow
Movie • 1961
Jinzaburô Kamo
Fight of the Gamblers
Movie • 1963
The Navy
Movie • 1963
Sinking the Unsinkable
Movie • 1944
Tears
Movie • 1956
The Masterless 47 – Part II
Movie • 1961
Diary of Forsaken Love
Movie • 1959
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Admiral Chuici Nagumo
Monsieur Zivaco
Movie • 1967
The Story of Pure Love
Movie • 1957
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Movie • 1964
Tales of a Golden Geisha
Movie • 1990
Prime Minister
Izu no musumetachi
Movie • 1945
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Movie • 1952
Kozo Kawai
Burden of Love
Movie • 1955
Jozo Araki
The Eleventh Hour
Movie • 1957
Adrift at Sea
Movie • 1983
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Movie • 1963
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Movie • 1962
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
Movie • 1984
Narration (voice)
The Yamabiko School
Movie • 1952
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Movie • 1947
Actress
Movie • 1956
Double Wedding
Movie • 1963
Goro
Goyokin
Movie • 1969
This Madding Crowd
Movie • 1962
Grandpa Yoshi
Devil's Gold
Movie • 1950
Theater of Life
Movie • 1958
Wind and waves of the South
Movie • 1961
Genji
Shishun no izumi
Movie • 1953
Nakamura, a policeman
The Street Without Sun
Movie • 1954
President Kunio
The Great Road
Movie • 1960
The Pirates
Movie • 1960
Otome no iru kichi
Movie • 1945
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
Movie • 1967
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
Movie • 1965
The Stream of Youth
Movie • 1959
Girls in the Orchard
Movie • 1953
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1965
The Surf
Movie • 1954
Schoolmaster
Five Gents' Trick Book
Movie • 1965
Floating Weeds Diary
Movie • 1955
Magoro Ichikawa
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
Movie • 1957
The Glorious Days
Movie • 1954
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Movie • 1964
The Last Game
Movie • 1979
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Movie • 1956
Women's House
Movie • 1954
Ripe and Marriageable
Movie • 1959
Saemon, Hikari's father
Salaryman's Medal
Movie • 1965
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Movie • 1970
Botchan yarō seizoroi
Movie • 1961
The Cards Will Tell
Movie • 1960
The Bride is Fifteen
Movie • 1964
Rira no hana wasureji
Movie • 1947
High Teen
Movie • 1959
For This We Fight
Movie • 1961
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
Movie • 1967
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Movie • 1959
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
Movie • 1967
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Movie • 1960
Isuke Tsujikura (President)
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
Movie • 1967
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Movie • 1960
Isuke Tsujikura
A Company President's Life Story
Movie • 1966
Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Movie • 1969
Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Movie • 1969
Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
Ajisai no uta
Movie • 1960
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Movie • 1970
Takeyunosuke Gōji
Five Gents and a Kuniang
Movie • 1970
Gōji Keinosuke
The Shadow Daughter
Movie • 1957
Life of Matsu the Untamed
Movie • 1965
Police Precinct Part 13
Movie • 1960
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
Movie • 1971
Keinosuke Takamatsu
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
Movie • 1971
Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
The Sea of Eden
Movie • 1963
Hateful Things
Movie • 1957
Keisuke kiyama
The Man from the Moon
Movie • 1951
Start Here
Movie • 1965
President Sagara
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
Movie • 1958
Mouri
A Public Benefactor
Movie • 1964
Crazy Big Discovery
Movie • 1969
Industrial Spy Free-for-All
Movie • 1967
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
Movie • 1959
Kill the Night Rose
Movie • 1966
Himitsu
Movie • 1952
The Forbidden Scoop
Movie • 1960
The Young Beast
Movie • 1958
Kigeki wa owarinu
Movie • 1946
白さぎと少年
Movie • 1964
Narrator (voice)
Goal for the Young
Movie • 1967
水戸黄門 第１部
TV • 1969
水戸黄門 第2部
TV • 1970
水戸黄門 第3部
TV • 1971