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Eijirō Tōno

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

17/09/1907

Day of Death

08/09/1994
(87) years old

Place of Birth

Gunma, Japan

Eijirō Tōno

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 ... Read More

Known For

Tales of a Golden Geisha

Days with Harasu

Death of a Tea Master

So What

Adrift at Sea

Choji Snack Bar

I Lived, But...

The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo

The King and His Vassal

Filmography

Cast

1990

Tales of a Golden Geisha

as Prime Minister

1989

Days with Harasu

1989

Death of a Tea Master

as Kokei

1988

So What

1984

Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-

as Narration (voice)

1983

Adrift at Sea

1983

Choji Snack Bar

1983

I Lived, But...

as Self

1982

The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Ri...

1981

The King and His Vassal

1979

The Last Game

1979

Hunter in the Dark

as Shogen

1978

Lord Mito

as Tokugawa Mitsukuni

1977

Island of Hell

as Kaemon Kito

1971

The Battle of Okinawa

1970

Will to Conquer

1970

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

1970

Five Gents and a Kuniang

as Gōji Keinosuke

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Chuici Nagumo

1970

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

as Takeyunosuke Gōji

1969

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

as Sanpo Sensei

1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)

1969

Goyokin

1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Tex...

1968

Monument to the Girl's Corps

as Nakaji, Principal

1968

Song of Vengeance

as 看守Ａ

1968

Horus: Prince of the Sun

as Ganko (voice)

1968

Kill!

as Hyogo Moriuchi

1968

The Saga of Tanegashima

as Kinbei Yaita

1968

Wild Ducks and Green Onions

1967

Japan's No. 1 Best Man

1967

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh

1967

Shogun and His Mistress 2

as Narrator

1967

Monsieur Zivaco

1967

Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!

1967

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!

1967

Three Faces of Love

as Soga

1967

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

as Senzo

1967

Journey to the North

as Kichinosuke Kawara

1966

The Great White Tower

1966

Dash to the Sun

1966

Lost Sex

as Neighbor / Writer

1966

Dynamite Doctor

as Marshal

1966

Four and A Half Mats

as Uyu

1966

Silence Has No Wings

1966

A Company President's Life Story

as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)

1965

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

as Seizo

1965

An Innocent Witch

1965

Blood and Sea

1965

Sword of the Beast

as Minister

1965

The Spy

1965

Illusion of Blood

1965

Life of Matsu the Untamed

1965

Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man

1965

The Last Judgment

1965

Red Beard

as Goheiji

1965

Salaryman's Medal

1965

Samurai Assassin

as Masagorō Kisoya

1965

Five Gents' Trick Book

1964

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

1964

Eddy Currents of Life

as Shigesuke Hayashi

1964

The Sandal Keeper

1964

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

1964

The Naked Executive

as Kosugi, president

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

Our Happiness Alone

1964

Hanayome wa jū go-sai

1964

Pale Flower

as Yasuoka

1964

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Tem...

as Haiya

1963

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

1963

Fight of the Gamblers

1963

Ukyunosuke on Patrol

1963

Tange Sazen

1963

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

as Akiharu

1963

A House in the Quarter

1963

The Navy

1963

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1963

Double Wedding

as Goro

1963

Life of Hishakaku 2

1963

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori

1963

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

1963

The Sunshine Girl

1963

High and Low

as Factory Worker

1963

Girls Born in August

1963

Pressure of Guilt

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Sosuke Otomo

1962

Born in Sin

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'

1962

The Great Wall

as Li Tang

1962

Mount Hakone

1962

The Man From the Sea

1962

This Madding Crowd

as Grandpa Yoshi

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

A Carpenter and Children

1962

The Bandits

1962

Facing to the Clouds

1962

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

1962

Seinen no isu

1962

Foundry Town

as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)

1962

Musume to watashi

1962

Lady Sen and Hideyori

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

1962

Our Marriage

as Father

1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

1962

Season of Farewell

1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman

1961

The Red Shadow

as Jinzaburô Kamo

1961

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko

1961

The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy

1961

Run, Genta, Run!

1961

Wind and waves of the South

as Genji

1961

Buddha

as Suratha

1961

The Last War

as Captain Umehara

1961

Boss Takes to the Road

1961

Immortal Love

as Policeman

1961

The Crimson Plains

as Shinzô Okui

1961

The Estuary

1961

The Orphan Brother

as Sanshô Dayû (voice)

1961

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Bo...

1961

Challenge to Live

1961

Fine Man

1961

Yojimbo

as Gonji, Tavern Keeper

1961

An Edo Magistrate

1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II

1961

Pigs and Battleships

as Kan'ichi

1961

For This We Fight

1961

Botchan yarō seizoroi

1960

Ore no furusato wa dai seibu

1960

The Masterless 47

as Gonosuke Kira

1960

The War Without Weapons

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

as Seisaku Kajiwara

1960

The Pirates

1960

The Twilight Story

1960

New Third Class Executive: Husband Educa...

as Isuke Tsujikura

1960

Police Precinct Part 13

1960

The Master Spearman

1960

The Man of Seven Faces

as Genkichi Miyashita

1960

あじさいの歌

1960

The Gambling Samurai

as Kansuke

1960

The Great Road

1960

The Cards Will Tell

1960

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women...

as Isuke Tsujikura (President)

1959

Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi

as Mieko's father

1959

The Three Treasures

as Ootomo

1959

The Human Wall

1959

Akatsuki no chiheisen

1959

Ripe and Marriageable

as Saemon, Hikari's father

1959

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

1959

Police Precinct: Car 108

1959

The Beast Shall Die

as Detective Kuwashima

1959

High Teen

1959

Good Morning

as Hiroshi Tomizawa

1959

Diary of Forsaken Love

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Jap...

as Policeman

1959

Kaze no uchi so to

1959

The Third Dead Angle

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

The Stream of Youth

1958

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958

The Days of Evil Women

1958

Theater of Life

1958

The Naked General

1958

The Naked Sun

1958

A Grain of Wheat

as Aisawa

1958

Oban kanketsu hen

1958

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

1958

The Ballad of Narayama

as Messenger

1958

Night Drum

1958

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

as Chamberlain

1958

Firefly Light

1958

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

as Fugetsusai

1957

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

1957

The Eleventh Hour

1957

Black River

as Kurihara

1957

The Story of Pure Love

1957

The Lower Depths

as Tomekichi the Tinker

1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Chaplin san

1957

The Shadow Daughter

1957

Untamed Woman

as Oshima's father

1957

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

as Fugetsusai

1957

An Osaka Story

as Gonzaemon Hoshino

1957

Ôban

as Chaplin-San

1957

Rice

1957

Shimizu Port of Chivalry

as Kansuke

1956

Actress

1956

I Will Buy You

as Ogushi

1956

Love on Rainbow Island

as Shiimbei Hayashi

1956

The Forest Is Alive

1956

Tears

1956

Night River

as Yujiro Funaki

1956

How Sorrowful

1956

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on t...

1956

The Legend of the White Serpent

1956

Flowery Brothers

1956

Farewell to Dream

as Yôichi's father, Genkichi

1956

The Vampire Moth

as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô

1956

White Fan

as Takuetsu

1956

Early Spring

as Tokichi Hattori

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)

1955

I Live in Fear

as Old man from Brazil

1955

Floating Weeds Diary

as Magoro Ichikawa

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

as Baiken Shishido

1955

The Wolves

1955

Murder on The Last Train

1955

Twilight Saloon

as Onizuka

1955

Burden of Love

as Jozo Araki

1955

Here Is a Spring

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Old man Murata

1954

The Cock Crows Twice

1954

Women's House

1954

The Surf

as Schoolmaster

1954

The Black Current

1954

The Street Without Sun

as President Kunio

1954

Seven Samurai

as Kidnapper

1954

The Glorious Days

1954

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls

1953

Tokyo Story

as Numata

1953

Hiroba no kōdoku

1953

The Wild Geese

as Suezo

1953

Girls in the Orchard

1953

Shishun no izumi

as Nakamura, a policeman

1953

Jūdai no seiten

1952

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and C...

1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1952

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

as Kozo Kawai

1952

Beauty and the Thief

as Jurota

1952

Children of Hiroshima

1952

Sword for Hire

1952

The Yamabiko School

1952

Farewell to Spring

as Sakichi Arakawa

1951

Sasaki Kojiro

1951

風雲児

1951

Freedom School

1951

Ginza Cosmetics

as Hyôbei Sugano

1951

Yasubei Nakayama

1951

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

1950

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Fr...

1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

A Man from Akagi

1950

Heat and Mud

1950

Devil's Gold

1949

Rinchi

1949

Stray Dog

1949

Late Night Confession

1949

Flame of My Love

as State Councillor Itô

1948

Apostasy

1948

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

as Yoshii

1947

Rira no hana wasureji

1947

The Love of the Actress Sumako

1947

Marriage

as Fumie's father

1946

Morning for the Osone Family

as Ippei Yamaka

1945

Izu no musumetachi

1945

Otome no iru kichi

1944

Army

as Sakuragi

1944

Jubilation Street

as Shingo’s father

1944

Sinking the Unsinkable

1943

Navy

as Teacher Ogata

1943

Port of Flowers

as Hayashida