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Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Acting • 1904-05-13 • Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Tokyo Story8.2

Tokyo Story

1953

Late Spring8.0

Late Spring

1949

An Autumn Afternoon7.9

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Good Morning7.7

Good Morning

1959

Early Summer7.9

Early Summer

1951

Tokyo Twilight7.7

Tokyo Twilight

1957

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