Chishū Ryū

Acting • Born 1904-05-13 – Died 1993-03-16

Acting2Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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.

Filmography

286 credits

The Fourth Lady

Movie • 1948

The Longest Tunnel

Movie • 1982

Saiji Akutsu

Red Beard

Movie • 1965

Mr. Yasumoto

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Movie • 1990

High Priest

Tora-san Confesses

Movie • 1991

High Priest

Crybaby Chacha

Movie • 1987

Late Spring

Movie • 1949

Shukichi Somiya

Early Spring

Movie • 1956

Kiichi Onodera

Striving to Live

Movie • 1955

Late Autumn

Movie • 1960

Shukichi Miwa

The Bad Sleep Well

Movie • 1960

Public Prosecutor Nonaka

Love in the Mountains

Movie • 1959

There Was a Father

Movie • 1942

Shuhei Horikawa

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Movie • 1961

Hinanmin no Chôrô

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Movie • 1952

Let's Go in Good Spirits

Movie • 1941

The Boss

Equinox Flower

Movie • 1958

Shukichi Mikami

Good Morning

Movie • 1959

Keitaro Hayashi

The End of Summer

Movie • 1961

Farmer

Kaisen no Zenya

Movie • 1943

Gekimetsu no uta

Movie • 1945

河上耕造

Street Without End

Movie • 1934

Yukihiko Chiba

The Funeral

Movie • 1984

The Priest

Dolls floating down the river

Movie • 1962

Neighbor

Twenty-Four Eyes

Movie • 1954

Otoko Sensei

The Rickshaw Man

Movie • 1958

Toyozo Yuki

Zoku aizen katsura

Movie • 1962

Futari dake no toride

Movie • 1963

Flower in a Storm

Movie • 1962

Mole Alley

Movie • 1953

Otome no iru kichi

Movie • 1945

Japan's Longest Day

Movie • 1967

Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Floating Weeds

Movie • 1959

Theatre Owner

The Soundless Cry

Movie • 1965

Tateno

Tokyo Story

Movie • 1953

Shukichi Hirayama

That Night's Wife

Movie • 1930

Policeman

An Autumn Afternoon

Movie • 1962

Shuhei Hirayama

Early Summer

Movie • 1951

Koichi Mamiya

The Only Son

Movie • 1936

Teacher Okubo

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Movie • 1947

Tashiro

Tokyo Twilight

Movie • 1957

Shukichi Sugiyama

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

Movie • 1952

Sadao Hirayama

The Munekata Sisters

Movie • 1950

Tadachika Munekata

Tokyo-Ga

Movie • 1985

Self

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

Movie • 1941

Shojiro's Friend

Iki na fûraibô

Movie • 1946

Chôgorô Yamamoto

Bridge

Movie • 1959

The Last War

Movie • 1961

Ebara

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho

Movie • 1971

The Human Bullet

Movie • 1968

Bookstore Man

Carmen Comes Home

Movie • 1951

Principal

Battle of the Japan Sea

Movie • 1969

General Maresuke Nogi

Woman of Tokyo

Movie • 1933

Reporter

Boyhood

Movie • 1951

Father

Ornamental Hairpin

Movie • 1941

Nanmura

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

Movie • 1955

Masao - Age 73

Master Fencer Sees the World

Movie • 1960

Youth of the Son

Movie • 1952

Mr. Uemura

Passing Fancy

Movie • 1933

Man on Boat

A Mother Should Be Loved

Movie • 1934

Hattori

Utsukushiki Rinjin

Movie • 1940

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Movie • 1976

Priest

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

Movie • 1970

Priest

The Snow Flurry

Movie • 1959

Army

Movie • 1944

Tomosuke Takagi

Home from the Sea

Movie • 1972

Ishizaki Senzo

Luminous Moss

Movie • 1992

Judge

White Blaze

Movie • 1958

Sailor

Movie • 1944

Teacher (uncredited)

Children in the Wind

Movie • 1937

Policeman

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Movie • 1983

the High Priest

The Eternal Rainbow

Movie • 1958

Naoji Kageyama

A Star Athlete

Movie • 1937

Tani

Boy Aviation Pilots

Movie • 1936

Housewife Camellia

Movie • 1936

Spring Dreams

Movie • 1960

Shinichirô Atsumi

Queen of the Wind

Movie • 1938

Mother is Strong

Movie • 1939

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

Movie • 1972

the High Priest

Southern Wind

Movie • 1939

Flower

Movie • 1941

South Wind

Movie • 1942

Tora-san's Love Call

Movie • 1971

the High Priest

Movie • 1947

Tora-san's Pure Love

Movie • 1976

Gozen-sama

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Movie • 1977

Gozensama

The Radish and the Carrot

Movie • 1965

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

Movie • 1937

George

Drunkard's Paradise

Movie • 1962

Navy

Movie • 1943

Major Kikuchi

All is Well

Movie • 1955

Shingo Mori

All is Well 2

Movie • 1955

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Movie • 1977

Priest

The Lights of Asakusa

Movie • 1937

Shin'ichi Katori

Satan's Sword

Movie • 1960

Tsukue

Kare o korosu na

Movie • 1952

Kyōshū

Movie • 1952

Home Sweet Home

Movie • 1951

Kosaku Uemura

Sisters

Movie • 1953

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

Movie • 1954

Scrap Collectors

Movie • 1968

Door of Flowers

Movie • 1961

The Storm

Movie • 1956

Tora-san, My Uncle

Movie • 1989

Gozen-sama

Port of Flowers

Movie • 1943

Nobadama

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Movie • 1992

High Priest

Freedom School

Movie • 1951

The Man Who Has Returned

Movie • 1944

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Movie • 1978

Gozen-sama

I Flunked, But...

Movie • 1930

Student

Flying in the Air

Movie • 1957

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

Movie • 1932

Shimazaki

Dragnet Girl

Movie • 1933

Policeman

Talk of the Town Tora-san

Movie • 1978

Gozen-sama

Dreams

Movie • 1990

Old Man

Our Planes Fly South

Movie • 1943

Teacher Matsuki

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Movie • 1969

Gozen-sama

Monument to Holy Service

Movie • 1978

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Movie • 1979

Gozen-sama

The Lady and the Beard

Movie • 1931

(uncredited)

Dislikes

Movie • 1964

The Crowded Train

Movie • 1957

Genroku, the father

Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4

Movie • 1960

Life's Simple Pleasures

Movie • 1955

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Movie • 1960

Old man in the park

When We are Old

Movie • 1982

Sennichimae fukin

Movie • 1945

Until Spring Comes

Movie • 1989

When Winter Comes

Movie • 1985

South Wind 2

Movie • 1942

The Woman Who Holds the Key

Movie • 1946

The Castle of Sand

Movie • 1974

Kojuro Kirihara

Until the End of the World

Movie • 1991

Mr. Mori

Always in My Heart Part 2

Movie • 1953

Always in My Heart

Movie • 1953

Always in My Heart Part 3

Movie • 1954

Fireworks Over the Sea

Movie • 1951

Tarobei Kamiya

The Last Kamikaze

Movie • 1970

Traveling in Party

Movie • 1967

The Good Fairy

Movie • 1951

Ryôen Toba

Farewell to Spring

Movie • 1959

Kôzô's father

Movie • 1980

Gozen-sama

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii

Movie • 1964

Gôzô Tôyama

Stray Sheep

Movie • 1955

Professor Hirota

Rush to Our Sweetheart

Movie • 1963

Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio

Movie • 1988

Self

Tange Sazen

Movie • 1963

A Visage to Remember

Movie • 1948

Internees of Kampili

Movie • 1960

Vice-Admiral Shibata

The Golden Demon

Movie • 1937

Kuranosuke Kazahaya

Days of Youth

Movie • 1929

Student

Song of the Flower Basket

Movie • 1937

Nenkai Hotta

The Black Sheep

Movie • 1967

Four Sisters

Movie • 1962

Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

Movie • 1940

Oretachi no toki

Movie • 1976

High-School Outcasts

Movie • 1970

Instructor Takeyama

I Lived, But...

Movie • 1983

Self

The Refugee

Movie • 1955

Miyamoto Musashi

Movie • 1973

Takuan

Lanterns on Blue Waters

Movie • 1983

Flower and Dragon

Movie • 1973

The Waves

Movie • 1952

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Movie • 1984

the High Priest

Great X

Movie • 1948

Chief of police

Moon Over the Ruins

Movie • 1937

Conductor

Children Hand in Hand

Movie • 1948

Mr. Matsumura

Eyes of Children

Movie • 1956

The Face

Movie • 1957

Det. Hasegawa

Fight for the Glory

Movie • 1969

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Movie • 1980

Priest

I Want to Be a Shellfish

Movie • 1959

Komiya

College Is a Nice Place

Movie • 1936

Amano

Physical Beauty

Movie • 1928

Couple on the Move

Movie • 1928

Pumpkin

Movie • 1928

Wife Lost

Movie • 1928

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Movie • 1969

Gozensama

Only She Knows

Movie • 1960

Tora-san, His Tender Love

Movie • 1970

High Priest

The Youth and His Amulet

Movie • 1961

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Movie • 1984

the High Priest

And Then

Movie • 1985

Toku Nagai

Introspection Tower

Movie • 1941

Mr. Kusama

A Prisoner in Search of Daughter

Movie • 1963

Dôkoku

Movie • 1952

The New Road: Akemi

Movie • 1936

Tora-san's Runaway

Movie • 1970

High Priest

Come Marry Me

Movie • 1966

Tamotsu's Grandfather

Gazing at Love and Death

Movie • 1964

The Greatest Man in the World

Movie • 1986

Hermit

A Hen in the Wind

Movie • 1948

Kazuichiro Satake

A Taxing Woman's Return

Movie • 1988

Former Priest

Hearts A-Flutter

Movie • 1957

Shingo Wakasugi

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

Movie • 1990

Self

Izu no musumetachi

Movie • 1945

The Four Loves

Movie • 1965

Heitarô Misawa

Dreams of Youth

Movie • 1928

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Movie • 1973

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Movie • 1975

the High Priest

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Movie • 1979

Double Wedding

Movie • 1963

Noriko's Father

Ishimatsu of the Forest

Movie • 1949

A Brother and His Younger Sister

Movie • 1939

Seizaburō Utsumi

Movie • 1989

the High Priest

Goodbye to the Front

Movie • 1937

Spring Thunder

Movie • 1939

Machi no Hi

Movie • 1974

Takushoku

Blue Eyed Bride

Movie • 1964

Maruhashi Gotaro

Warm Current

Movie • 1966

Yasuhide Shima

Aiyoku no sabaki

Movie • 1953

Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home

Movie • 1943

Haru no Wakakusa

Movie • 1954

Beauty of Life

Movie • 1951

Forgotten Children

Movie • 1949

New Woman Question and Answer

Movie • 1939

Living Image

Movie • 1948

Love

Movie • 1933

Kekkon Sanjûshi

Movie • 1949

A Good Man, A Good Day

Movie • 1961

Ozeki Hitoshi

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Movie • 1959

Detective Shiozaki

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn

Movie • 1974

Kyukei no Koya

Movie • 1975

The White Road Across the River

Movie • 1959

I'm a Bodyguard

Movie • 1964

最後の攘夷党

Movie • 1945

Oyuki

Movie • 1966

Shin Jinsei Gekijo

Movie • 1961

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

Movie • 1953

Subarashiki shōtai

Movie • 1955

Monrō no yōna onna

Movie • 1964

Bandits on the Wind

Movie • 1961

Ohana han: Dai ni bu

Movie • 1966

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Movie • 1943

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

Movie • 1984

The Path Under the Platanes

Movie • 1959

Ichiro Ishimaru

Carefree Goddesses

Movie • 1987

The College Hero

Movie • 1958

Professor Fujii

Sakiko-san chotto

Movie • 1963

中川正一

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

Movie • 1997

High Priest

And Then

Movie • 1985

I Was Born, But...

Movie • 1932

Home movie projectionist

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Movie • 1986

A Story of Floating Weeds

Movie • 1934

Shouting Audience Member (uncredited)

Making of 'Dreams'

Movie • 1990

Self

The Wicked Boy

Movie • 1956

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Movie • 1985

Tayama Dosen

The Roads Men Travel

TV • 1976

Kadomae

A-Un

TV • 1980

An Early Autumn

TV • 1987

Haguregumo

TV • 1978

Hi no kuni ni

TV • 1976

造園主・吉野公平

Tamayura

TV • 1965

直木良彦

Zoku zoku jiken

TV • 1980

Tokyo Suburbia

TV • 1979

The Lonely Scalpel

TV • 1969