Chishū Ryū
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).…
Filmography
The Longest Tunnel
1982 · 10.0
Flower and Dragon
1973 · 10.0
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959 · 10.0
The Man Who Has Returned
1944 · 10.0
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959 · 10.0
All is Well
1955 · 10.0
The Greatest Man in the World
1986 · 10.0
All is Well 2
1955 · 10.0
Dreams of Youth
1928 · 10.0
Wife Lost
1928 · 10.0
Physical Beauty
1928 · 10.0
Beauty of Life
1951 · 10.0
Flying in the Air
1957 · 10.0
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976 · 9.2
Tamayura
1965 · 9.0
Tora-san Goes North
1987 · 9.0
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981 · 9.0
Bandits on the Wind
1961 · 9.0
The Youth and His Amulet
1961 · 9.0
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1963 · 9.0
The Radish and the Carrot
1965 · 9.0
The Soundless Cry
1965 · 9.0
College Is a Nice Place
1936 · 9.0
Futari dake no toride
1963 · 9.0
Tange Sazen
1963 · 9.0
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960 · 9.0
Couple on the Move
1928 · 9.0
Fight for the Glory
1969 · 9.0
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976 · 8.8
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977 · 8.8
Tora-san, the Expert
1982 · 8.7
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979 · 8.7
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989 · 8.7
Tora-san's Promise
1981 · 8.7
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997 · 8.5
The New Road: Akemi
1936 · 8.5
The Storm
1956 · 8.5
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · 8.4
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973 · 8.4
Tora-san's Love Call
1971 · 8.4
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973 · 8.4
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987 · 8.3
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985 · 8.3
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972 · 8.3
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980 · 8.3
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · 8.3
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988 · 8.3
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972 · 8.3
Red Beard
1965 · 8.2
The Roads Men Travel
1976 · 8.2
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989 · 8.2
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979 · 8.2
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975 · 8.2
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975 · 8.2
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978 · 8.2
Tokyo Story
1953 · 8.1
Late Spring
1949 · 8.0
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984 · 8.0
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992 · 8.0
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978 · 8.0
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971 · 8.0
Scrap Collectors
1968 · 8.0
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980 · 8.0
Tora-san's Runaway
1970 · 8.0
Song of the Flower Basket
1937 · 8.0
Monument to Holy Service
1978 · 8.0
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 · 8.0
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977 · 8.0
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974 · 8.0
Mole Alley
1953 · 8.0
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984 · 8.0
Navy
1943 · 8.0
Machi no Hi
1974 · 8.0
Pumpkin
1928 · 8.0
I'm a Bodyguard
1964 · 8.0
Gekimetsu no uta
1945 · 8.0
Through Days and Months
1969 · 8.0
Love
1933 · 8.0
The Young Women of Izu
1945 · 8.0
The College Hero
1958 · 8.0
Forgotten Children
1949 · 8.0
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · 7.9
Early Summer
1951 · 7.9
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 · 7.8
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969 · 7.8
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974 · 7.8
Tora-san Confesses
1991 · 7.8
Dreams
1990 · 7.7
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954 · 7.7
Good Morning
1959 · 7.7
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · 7.7
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · 7.7
Late Autumn
1960 · 7.7
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983 · 7.7
Where Spring Comes Late
1970 · 7.7
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971 · 7.7
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990 · 7.7
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952 · 7.6
The End of Summer
1961 · 7.5
Floating Weeds
1959 · 7.5
Early Spring
1956 · 7.5
I Was Born, But...
1932 · 7.5
Love Under the Crucifix
1962 · 7.5
A Star Athlete
1937 · 7.5
Equinox Flower
1958 · 7.4
The Moon Has Risen
1955 · 7.4
The Only Son
1936 · 7.4
Children in the Wind
1937 · 7.4
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970 · 7.4
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970 · 7.4
The Castle of Sand
1974 · 7.3
Japan's Longest Day
1967 · 7.3
Miyamoto Musashi
1973 · 7.3
The Wandering Princess
1960 · 7.3
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986 · 7.3
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 · 7.3
Love Letter
1953 · 7.2
The Funeral
1984 · 7.2
The Rickshaw Man
1958 · 7.2
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934 · 7.2
And Then
1985 · 7.2
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947 · 7.2
Home from the Sea
1972 · 7.2
The Wiser Age
1962 · 7.2
The Eternal Rainbow
1958 · 7.2
The Munekata Sisters
1950 · 7.1
A Hen in the Wind
1948 · 7.1
There Was a Father
1942 · 7.0
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955 · 7.0
Carefree Goddesses
1987 · 7.0
An Inn in Tokyo
1935 · 7.0
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 · 7.0
Gazing at Love and Death
1964 · 7.0
The Last Kamikaze
1970 · 7.0
Come Marry Me
1966 · 7.0
Children Hand in Hand
1948 · 7.0
Housewife Camellia
1936 · 7.0
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1983 · 7.0
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954 · 7.0
Stray Sheep
1955 · 7.0
Port of Flowers
1943 · 7.0
Freedom School
1951 · 7.0
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1947 · 7.0
Saigo no joito
1945 · 7.0
The Path Under the Platanes
1959 · 7.0
High-School Outcasts
1970 · 7.0
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985 · 6.9
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941 · 6.9
The Snow Flurry
1959 · 6.9
Boyhood
1951 · 6.9
The Last War
1961 · 6.8
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · 6.8
Army
1944 · 6.8
Always in My Heart
1953 · 6.8
The Crowded Train
1957 · 6.8
Youth of the Son
1952 · 6.8
Home Sweet Home
1951 · 6.8
Woman of Tokyo
1933 · 6.8
Moon Over the Ruins
1937 · 6.7
Until the End of the World
1991 · 6.7
Eyes of Children
1956 · 6.7
Introspection Tower
1941 · 6.7
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986 · 6.6
Dragnet Girl
1933 · 6.6
Street Without End
1934 · 6.6
Passing Fancy
1933 · 6.6
Satan's Sword
1960 · 6.6
Ornamental Hairpin
1941 · 6.6
Haguregumo
1978 · 6.5
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932 · 6.5
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953 · 6.5
A Visage to Remember
1948 · 6.5
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988 · 6.4
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969 · 6.4
The First Kiss
1955 · 6.4
Carmen Comes Home
1951 · 6.3
That Night's Wife
1930 · 6.3
Farewell to Spring
1959 · 6.3
Luminous Moss
1992 · 6.2
The Human Bullet
1968 · 6.0
The Lady and the Beard
1931 · 6.0
Four Sisters
1962 · 6.0
Spring Dreams
1960 · 6.0
Traveling in Party
1967 · 6.0
The Golden Demon
1937 · 6.0
A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939 · 6.0
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937 · 6.0
The Lights of Asakusa
1937 · 6.0
New Woman Question and Answer
1939 · 6.0
I Flunked, But...
1930 · 5.9
The Good Fairy
1951 · 5.8
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983 · 5.8
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934 · 5.8
Days of Youth
1929 · 5.6
The Waves
1952 · 5.5
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951 · 5.4
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
1964 · 5.3
A Million Girls
1963 · 5.0
Hi no kuni ni
1976 · 0.0
Tokyo Suburbia
1979 · 0.0
Zoku zoku jiken
1980 · 0.0
A-Un
1980 · 0.0
An Early Autumn
1987 · 0.0
The Lonely Scalpel
1969 · 0.0
おれは男だ！
1971 · 0.0
Funny Fellows
1956 · 0.0
The Immortal Pitcher
1955 · 0.0
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950 · 0.0
Kazanmyaku
1950 · 0.0
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960 · 0.0
花嫁人形は眠らない
1986 · 0.0
The Face
1957 · 0.0
新婚たくあん夫婦
1954 · 0.0
Kuchibue o fuku wataridori
1958 · 0.0
Pure Love
1956 · 0.0
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
1973 · 0.0
The Man of Rumor
1948 · 0.0
Mother is Strong
1939 · 0.0
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956 · 0.0
The White Road Across the River
1959 · 0.0
The Invisible 108th Unit
1956 · 0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952 · 0.0
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974 · 0.0
Let's Go in Good Spirits
1941 · 0.0
Kyōshū
1952 · 0.0
The Actress and the Detective
1950 · 0.0
Goodbye to the Front
1937 · 0.0
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943 · 0.0
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953 · 0.0
Autumn Interlude
1954 · 0.0
Door of Flowers
1961 · 0.0
Yoru no keisha
1962 · 0.0
Drunkard's Paradise
1962 · 0.0
The Last Escape
1957 · 0.0
Sakiko-san chotto
1963 · 0.0
The Story of Zenta and Sanpei in the Ghost World
1957 · 0.0
The Wicked Boy
1956 · 0.0
Zoku aizen katsura
1962 · 0.0
Love in the Mountains
1959 · 0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953 · 0.0
The Story of Zenta and Sanpei: Kids in the Wind
1957 · 0.0
Until Spring Comes
1989 · 0.0
Only She Knows
1960 · 0.0
The Four Loves
1965 · 0.0
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958 · 0.0
Oretachi no toki
1976 · 0.0
White Blaze
1958 · 0.0
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961 · 0.0
Warm Current
1966 · 0.0
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
1960 · 0.0
Striving to Live
1955 · 0.0
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963 · 0.0
Dôkoku
1952 · 0.0
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1961 · 0.0
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963 · 0.0
Great X
1948 · 0.0
Spring Thunder
1939 · 0.0
South Wind
1942 · 0.0
Subarashiki shōtai
1955 · 0.0
Haru no Wakakusa
1954 · 0.0
A Woman Who Convicts Men
1948 · 0.0
Otome no iru kichi
1945 · 0.0
Living Image
1948 · 0.0
Kyukei no Koya
1975 · 0.0
慶安水滸傳
1954 · 0.0
When Winter Comes
1985 · 0.0
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966 · 0.0
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984 · 0.0
The Black Sheep
1967 · 0.0
Internees of Kampili
1960 · 0.0
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949 · 0.0
The Refugee
1955 · 0.0
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1940 · 0.0
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960 · 0.0
Student Executive
1961 · 0.0
Flower in a Storm
1962 · 0.0
Boy Aviation Pilots
1936 · 0.0
Iki na fûraibô
1946 · 0.0
The Fourth Lady
1948 · 0.0
Dislikes
1964 · 0.0
Monrō no yōna onna
1964 · 0.0
Double Wedding
1963 · 0.0
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1971 · 0.0
Kare o korosu na
1952 · 0.0
Sailor
1944 · 0.0
Flower
1941 · 0.0
Dolls floating down the river
1962 · 0.0
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946 · 0.0
Bridge
1959 · 0.0
Crybaby Chacha
1987 · 0.0
When We are Old
1982 · 0.0
Kaisen no Zenya
1943 · 0.0
Hearts A-Flutter
1957 · 0.0
Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
1955 · 0.0
Sisters
1953 · 0.0
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940 · 0.0
Oyuki
1966 · 0.0
Blue Eyed Bride
1964 · 0.0
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the Green Grass
1954 · 0.0
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1943 · 0.0
Southern Wind
1939 · 0.0
Sennichimae fukin
1945 · 0.0
South Wind 2
1942 · 0.0
Queen of the Wind
1938 · 0.0
Our Planes Fly South
1943 · 0.0