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).

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Filmography (288 Appearances)

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

1997

Tora-san Makes Excuses

1992

Luminous Moss

1992

Tora-san Confesses

1991

Until the End of the World

1991

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

1990

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

1990

Making of 'Dreams'

1990

Dreams

1990

Tora-san, My Uncle

1989

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

1989

Until Spring Comes

1989

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

1988

A Taxing Woman's Return

1988

Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio

1988

Tora-san Plays Daddy

1987

An Early Autumn

1987

Tora-san Goes North

1987

Crybaby Chacha

1987

Carefree Goddesses

1987

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

1986

The Greatest Man in the World

1986

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

1986

Tora-san's Island Encounter

1985

And Then

1985

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

Tora-san, the Go-Between

1985

Tokyo-Ga

1985

When Winter Comes

1985

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

1984

The Funeral

1984

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

1984

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

1984

Tora-san Goes Religious?

1983

Lanterns on Blue Waters

1983

I Lived, But...

1983

Tora-san's Song of Love

1983

Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu

1983

Tora-san, the Expert

1982

When We are Old

1982

The Longest Tunnel

1982

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

1982

Tora-san's Promise

1981

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

1981

Foster Daddy, Tora!

1980

Zoku zoku jiken

1980

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

1980

A-Un

1980

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

1979

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

1979

Tokyo Suburbia

1979

Talk of the Town Tora-san

1978

Monument to Holy Service

1978

Stage-Struck Tora-san

1978

Haguregumo

1978

Tora-san Plays Cupid

1977

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

1977

Tora-san's Pure Love

1976

Oretachi no toki

1976

Hi no kuni ni

1976

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

1976

The Roads Men Travel

1976

Tora-san, the Intellectual

1975

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

1975

Kyukei no Koya

1975

Tora-san's Lullaby

1974

The Castle of Sand

1974

Tora-san's Lovesick

1974

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

1974

Machi no Hi

1974

Tora-san Loves an Artist

1973

Miyamoto Musashi

1973

Flower and Dragon

1973

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

1973

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

1972

Home from the Sea

1972

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

1972

Tora-san's Love Call

1971

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

1971

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho

1971

Tora-san's Shattered Romance

1971

High-School Outcasts

1970

The Last Kamikaze

1970

Where Spring Comes Late

1970

Tora-san's Runaway

1970

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

1970

Tora-san, His Tender Love

1970

Fight for the Glory

1969

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

1969

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

1969

Battle of the Japan Sea

1969

The Lonely Scalpel

1969

Through Days and Months

1969

Scrap Collectors

1968

The Human Bullet

1968

Traveling in Party

1967

Japan's Longest Day

1967

The Black Sheep

1967

Oyuki

1966

Come Marry Me

1966

Ohana han: Dai ni bu

1966

Warm Current

1966

The Four Loves

1965

Tamayura

1965

Red Beard

1965

The Soundless Cry

1965

The Radish and the Carrot

1965

Gazing at Love and Death

1964

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii

1964

I'm a Bodyguard

1964

Blue Eyed Bride

1964

Dislikes

1964

Monrō no yōna onna

1964

Tange Sazen

1963

A Prisoner in Search of Daughter

1963

Double Wedding

1963

Futari dake no toride

1963

Rush to Our Sweetheart

1963

Sakiko-san chotto

1963

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Zoku aizen katsura

1962

Four Sisters

1962

Yoru no keisha

1962

Love Under the Crucifix

1962

Flower in a Storm

1962

Dolls floating down the river

1962

Drunkard's Paradise

1962

The Wiser Age

1962

Bandits on the Wind

1961

The End of Summer

1961

The Last War

1961

The Youth and His Amulet

1961

A Good Man, A Good Day

1961

Shin Jinsei Gekijo

1961

Door of Flowers

1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

Late Autumn

1960

Satan's Sword

1960

Master Fencer Sees the World

1960

Internees of Kampili

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband

1960

Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960

Storm on the Silvery Peaks

1960

Only She Knows

1960

The Wandering Princess

1960

Spring Dreams

1960

Floating Weeds

1959

Love in the Mountains

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

1959

The White Road Across the River

1959

Good Morning

1959

Farewell to Spring

1959

I Want to Be a Shellfish

1959

Bridge

1959

The Path Under the Platanes

1959

The Snow Flurry

1959

The Eternal Rainbow

1958

The College Hero

1958

Equinox Flower

1958

The Rickshaw Man

1958

White Blaze

1958

Hearts A-Flutter

1957

Tokyo Twilight

1957

The Crowded Train

1957

The Face

1957

Flying in the Air

1957

The Storm

1956

The Wicked Boy

1956

Early Spring

1956

Eyes of Children

1956

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1955

Subarashiki shōtai

1955

The First Kiss

1955

Stray Sheep

1955

Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei

1955

The Refugee

1955

Striving to Live

1955

All is Well 2

1955

All is Well

1955

The Moon Has Risen

1955

Twenty-Four Eyes

1954

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

1954

Always in My Heart Part 3

1954

Haru no Wakakusa

1954

慶安水滸傳

1954

Love Letter

1953

Always in My Heart Part 2

1953

Tokyo Story

1953

Always in My Heart

1953

Mole Alley

1953

Aiyoku no sabaki

1953

Sisters

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1952

Dôkoku

1952

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952

Kare o korosu na

1952

Kyōshū

1952

Youth of the Son

1952

The Waves

1952

Beauty of Life

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

1951

Early Summer

1951

Boyhood

1951

Freedom School

1951

Carmen Comes Home

1951

Home Sweet Home

1951

The Good Fairy

1951

The Munekata Sisters

1950

Forgotten Children

1949

Late Spring

1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest

1949

Kekkon Sanjûshi

1949

The Fourth Lady

1948

Living Image

1948

A Hen in the Wind

1948

Great X

1948

A Visage to Remember

1948

Children Hand in Hand

1948

噂の男

1948

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947

The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant

1947

The Woman Who Holds the Key

1946

Iki na fûraibô

1946

最後の攘夷党

1945

Sennichimae fukin

1945

Izu no musumetachi

1945

Otome no iru kichi

1945

Gekimetsu no uta

1945

Army

1944

The Man Who Has Returned

1944

Sailor

1944

Navy

1943

Our Planes Fly South

1943

Port of Flowers

1943

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

1943

Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home

1943

Kaisen no Zenya

1943

South Wind 2

1942

South Wind

1942

There Was a Father

1942

Ornamental Hairpin

1941

Flower

1941

Let's Go in Good Spirits

1941

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1941

Introspection Tower

1941

Utsukushiki Rinjin

1940

Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

1940

Mother is Strong

1939

New Woman Question and Answer

1939

Spring Thunder

1939

A Brother and His Younger Sister

1939

Southern Wind

1939

Queen of the Wind

1938

The Lights of Asakusa

1937

Children in the Wind

1937

Goodbye to the Front

1937

The Golden Demon

1937

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

1937

A Star Athlete

1937

Song of the Flower Basket

1937

Moon Over the Ruins

1937

The New Road: Akemi

1936

Housewife Camellia

1936

The Only Son

1936

Boy Aviation Pilots

1936

College Is a Nice Place

1936

An Inn in Tokyo

1935

A Story of Floating Weeds

1934

A Mother Should Be Loved

1934

Street Without End

1934

Love

1933

Passing Fancy

1933

Dragnet Girl

1933

Woman of Tokyo

1933

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

1932

I Was Born, But...

1932

The Lady and the Beard

1931

That Night's Wife

1930

I Flunked, But...

1930

Days of Youth

1929

Physical Beauty

1928

Couple on the Move

1928

Pumpkin

1928

Wife Lost

1928

Dreams of Youth

1928 Debut
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