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Chishū Ryū
Known for: ActingChishu 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 48
Red Beard
as Mr. Yasumoto 
Late Spring
as Shukichi Somiya 
Dreams
as Old Man 
Tokyo Story
as Shukichi Hirayama 
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no Chôrô 
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as Tashiro 
The End of Summer
as Farmer 
Until the End of the World
as Mr. Mori 
Twenty-Four Eyes
as Otoko Sensei 
The Castle of Sand
as Kojuro Kirihara 
The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka 
An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei Hirayama 
Good Morning
as Keitaro Hayashi 
Early Summer
as Koichi Mamiya 
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
as Sadao Hirayama 
Late Autumn
as Shukichi Miwa 
Floating Weeds
as Theatre Owner 
Equinox Flower
as Shukichi Mikami 
Early Spring
as Kiichi Onodera 
Tokyo Twilight
as Shukichi Sugiyama 
The Human Bullet
as Bookstore Owner 
A Hen in the Wind
as Kazuichiro Satake 
The Munekata Sisters
as Tadachika Munekata 
The Rickshaw Man
as Toyozo Yuki 
The Moon Has Risen
as Asai Mokichi 
There Was a Father
as Shuhei Horikawa 
Tokyo-Ga
as Self 
I Was Born, But...
as Home movie projectionist 
The Only Son
as Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher 
Carmen Comes Home
as Principal 
A Story of Floating Weeds
as Shouting Audience Member (uncredited) 
The Wandering Princess
as Kinoshita 
Army
as Tomosuke Takagi 
Passing Fancy
as Man on Boat 
Love Under the Crucifix
as Sokei Nambo 
Port of Flowers
as Nobadama 
I Flunked, But...
as Student 
Ornamental Hairpin
as Nanmura 
The Eternal Rainbow
as Naoji Kageyama 
That Night's Wife
as Policeman 
Dragnet Girl
as Policeman 
The Lady and the Beard
as (uncredited) 
Woman of Tokyo
as Reporter 
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
as Shojiro's Friend 
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Tarobei Kamiya 
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao - Age 73