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 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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-09-17
Place of birth
Gunma, Japan
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Cast
Seven Samurai
1954
8.46
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967
3.50
Red Beard
1965
8.12
Early Spring
1956
7.50
Stray Dog
1949
7.54
I Live in Fear
1955
7.30
Pigs and Battleships
1961
7.10
Yojimbo
1961
8.10
The Lower Depths
1957
7.06
Death of a Tea Master
1989
5.40
High and Low
1963
8.35
Heat and Mud
1950
0.00
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
0.00
Good Morning
1959
7.70
Rinchi
1949
0.00
Untamed Woman
1957
7.40
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962
8.00
Pale Flower
1964
7.37
Yasubei Nakayama
1951
0.00
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
0.00
Beauty and the Thief
1952
0.00
Farewell to Spring
1952
0.00
Hunter in the Dark
1979
6.50
Musume to watashi
1962
0.00
Kill!
1968
7.00
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
0.00
Sword of the Beast
1965
7.50
Seinen no isu
1962
0.00
Tokyo Story
1953
8.17
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
6.80
Foundry Town
1962
7.60
A Man from Akagi
1950
0.00
The Great Wall
1962
6.00
Hiroba no kōdoku
1953
0.00
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951
0.00
Dynamite Doctor
1966
0.00
Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968
6.30
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967
7.33
The Estuary
1961
0.00
Sasaki Kojiro
1951
5.00
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963
6.10
The Naked Executive
1964
0.00
Children of Hiroshima
1952
7.25
Facing to the Clouds
1962
0.00
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
0.00
Ôban
1957
0.00
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957
0.00
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
1959
0.00
Samurai Assassin
1965
7.36
The Last War
1961
6.20
Black River
1957
6.90
Flame of My Love
1949
5.60
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
7.00
I Will Buy You
1956
7.00
Morning for the Osone Family
1946
6.90
Twilight Saloon
1955
8.00
The Wild Geese
1953
6.50
Farewell to Dream
1956
6.90
The King and His Vassal
1981
0.00
Blood and Sea
1965
0.00
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959
0.00
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
0.00
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968
0.00
The Great White Tower
1966
6.70
Days with Harasu
1989
0.00
The Masterless 47
1960
0.00
Navy
1943
0.00
The Crimson Plains
1961
0.00
Dash to the Sun
1966
0.00
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
0.00
The Forest Is Alive
1956
0.00
Kaze no uchi so to
1959
0.00
Port of Flowers
1943
7.20
Freedom School
1951
0.00
Journey to the North
1967
0.00
Mount Hakone
1962
0.00
Jūdai no seiten
1953
0.00
風雲児
1951
0.00
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
6.50
An Edo Magistrate
1961
5.80
Ore no furusato wa dai seibu
1960
0.00
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
7.50
Song of Vengeance
1968
5.00
Will to Conquer
1970
0.00
Four and A Half Mats
1966
0.00
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
6.09
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968
0.00
Buddha
1961
0.00
A Carpenter and Children
1962
0.00
Night River
1956
6.20
Here Is a Spring
1955
7.30
Policeman's Diary
1955
6.50
The Wolves
1955
6.80
A Grain of Wheat
1958
0.00
Run, Genta, Run!
1961
7.50
Illusion of Blood
1965
6.20
The Vampire Moth
1956
4.60
Apostasy
1948
5.80
How Sorrowful
1956
0.00
Firefly Light
1958
0.00
The War Without Weapons
1960
0.00
Night Drum
1958
6.10
The Spy
1965
0.00
The Man From the Sea
1962
0.00
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
5.60
Late Night Confession
1949
0.00
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
0.00
The Twilight Story
1960
8.00
The Gambling Samurai
1960
6.30
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963
6.50
The Sandal Keeper
1964
0.00
Immortal Love
1961
7.50
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963
7.00
An Innocent Witch
1965
7.10
The Human Wall
1959
5.00
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959
5.70
Marriage
1947
7.00
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
0.00
White Fan
1956
0.00
Jubilation Street
1944
6.30
The Man of Seven Faces
1960
6.00
A Story from Echigo
1964
7.20
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1957
7.50
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
0.00
Tange Sazen
1963
0.00
Rice
1957
6.40
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
5.00
So What
1988
0.00
The Black Current
1954
0.00
The Ballad of Narayama
1958
7.50
A House in the Quarter
1963
6.00
Our Marriage
1962
6.70
An Osaka Story
1957
5.40
Season of Farewell
1962
0.00
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968
5.00
Sword for Hire
1952
7.00
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965
7.00
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963
8.20
The Bandits
1962
0.00
I Lived, But...
1983
6.50
Fine Man
1961
0.00
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
0.00
Island of Hell
1977
5.00
The Sunshine Girl
1963
5.70
Our Happiness Alone
1964
0.00
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963
7.00
Three Faces of Love
1967
0.00
The Cock Crows Twice
1954
0.00
Choji Snack Bar
1983
7.00
Pressure of Guilt
1963
7.00
Born in Sin
1962
0.00
The Days of Evil Women
1958
0.00
Murder on The Last Train
1955
0.00
Eddy Currents of Life
1964
0.00
The Third Dead Angle
1959
0.00
The Naked Sun
1958
0.00
The Three Treasures
1959
5.40
The Beast Shall Die
1959
5.60
Lord Mito
1978
9.50
The Orphan Brother
1961
6.10
Flowery Brothers
1956
0.00
Challenge to Live
1961
0.00
Army
1944
6.86
The Master Spearman
1960
5.20
Lost Sex
1966
0.00
Silence Has No Wings
1966
7.00
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
0.00
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
6.80
The Naked General
1958
0.00
Girls Born in August
1963
0.00
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
7.80
The Red Shadow
1961
6.40
Fight of the Gamblers
1963
6.00
The Navy
1963
0.00
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
0.00
Tears
1956
0.00
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
0.00
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
0.00
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
7.14
Monsieur Zivaco
1967
0.00
The Story of Pure Love
1957
6.80
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
0.00
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990
6.40
Izu no musumetachi
1945
0.00
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
0.00
Burden of Love
1955
6.80
The Eleventh Hour
1957
7.20
Adrift at Sea
1983
0.00
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
9.00
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
0.00
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
1984
5.80
The Yamabiko School
1952
0.00
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
6.80
Actress
1956
0.00
Double Wedding
1963
0.00
Goyokin
1969
7.60
This Madding Crowd
1962
0.00
Devil's Gold
1950
0.00
Theater of Life
1958
0.00
Wind and waves of the South
1961
0.00
Shishun no izumi
1953
0.00
The Street Without Sun
1954
0.00
The Great Road
1960
0.00
The Pirates
1960
7.20
Otome no iru kichi
1945
0.00
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967
0.00
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965
0.00
The Stream of Youth
1959
0.00
Girls in the Orchard
1953
0.00
The Last Judgment
1965
0.00
The Surf
1954
0.00
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965
0.00
Floating Weeds Diary
1955
4.30
The Glorious Days
1954
0.00
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
0.00
The Last Game
1979
0.00
Women's House
1954
6.00
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
0.00
Salaryman's Medal
1965
0.00
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970
0.00
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
0.00
The Cards Will Tell
1960
0.00
Hanayome wa jū go-sai
1964
0.00
Rira no hana wasureji
1947
0.00
High Teen
1959
0.00
For This We Fight
1961
0.00
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959
0.00
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967
0.00
A Company President's Life Story
1966
0.00
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969
0.00
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969
0.00
あじさいの歌
1960
0.00
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970
0.00
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970
0.00
The Shadow Daughter
1957
0.00
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
0.00
Police Precinct Part 13
1960
0.00
