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