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).
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-05-13
Place of birth
Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Images
Cast
The Fourth Lady
1948
0.00
The Longest Tunnel
1982
0.00
Red Beard
1965
8.10
Tora-san Confesses
1991
8.00
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990
8.00
Crybaby Chacha
1987
0.00
Late Spring
1949
8.00
Early Spring
1956
7.50
Striving to Live
1955
0.00
Late Autumn
1960
7.80
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
7.69
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
7.80
Love in the Mountains
1959
0.00
There Was a Father
1942
6.97
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
0.00
Let's Go in Good Spirits
1941
0.00
Equinox Flower
1958
7.40
The End of Summer
1961
7.54
Good Morning
1959
7.72
Kaisen no Zenya
1943
0.00
Gekimetsu no uta
1945
0.00
Street Without End
1934
6.60
The Funeral
1984
7.20
Dolls floating down the river
1962
0.00
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954
7.70
The Rickshaw Man
1958
7.23
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
0.00
Futari dake no toride
1963
0.00
Flower in a Storm
1962
0.00
Mole Alley
1953
0.00
Otome no iru kichi
1945
0.00
Japan's Longest Day
1967
7.10
Floating Weeds
1959
7.50
The Soundless Cry
1965
8.00
Tokyo Story
1953
8.17
That Night's Wife
1930
6.50
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
7.90
Early Summer
1951
7.85
The Only Son
1936
7.41
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
7.25
Tokyo Twilight
1957
7.70
The Munekata Sisters
1950
6.98
Tokyo-Ga
1985
7.00
Iki na fûraibô
1946
0.00
Bridge
1959
0.00
The Last War
1961
6.20
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1971
0.00
The Human Bullet
1968
6.10
Carmen Comes Home
1951
6.20
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969
6.00
Woman of Tokyo
1933
6.80
Boyhood
1951
6.70
Ornamental Hairpin
1941
6.50
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960
0.00
Youth of the Son
1952
6.40
Passing Fancy
1933
6.60
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934
6.07
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940
0.00
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976
9.00
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970
7.40
The Snow Flurry
1959
6.60
Army
1944
6.86
Home from the Sea
1972
7.25
Luminous Moss
1992
5.50
White Blaze
1958
0.00
Sailor
1944
0.00
Children in the Wind
1937
7.60
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983
8.00
The Eternal Rainbow
1958
6.30
A Star Athlete
1937
6.00
Housewife Camellia
1936
0.00
Boy Aviation Pilots
1936
0.00
Spring Dreams
1960
5.80
Queen of the Wind
1938
0.00
Mother is Strong
1939
0.00
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972
7.50
Southern Wind
1939
0.00
Flower
1941
0.00
South Wind
1942
0.00
Tora-san's Love Call
1971
8.00
Yoru no keisha
1962
0.00
Love Under the Crucifix
1962
6.89
Where Spring Comes Late
1970
7.60
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974
7.30
The Moon Has Risen
1955
6.80
The Wandering Princess
1960
6.70
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974
7.50
慶安水滸傳
1954
0.00
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975
7.70
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1947
7.00
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976
8.50
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
8.50
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937
6.00
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
10.00
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
0.00
Navy
1943
0.00
All is Well
1955
0.00
All is Well 2
1955
0.00
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977
7.70
The Lights of Asakusa
1937
5.60
Satan's Sword
1960
6.63
Kare o korosu na
1952
0.00
Kyōshū
1952
0.00
Home Sweet Home
1951
6.80
Sisters
1953
0.00
Scrap Collectors
1968
0.00
Door of Flowers
1961
0.00
The Storm
1956
9.00
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989
8.70
Port of Flowers
1943
7.20
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992
8.00
Freedom School
1951
0.00
The Man Who Has Returned
1944
0.00
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978
8.00
I Flunked, But...
1930
6.10
Flying in the Air
1957
0.00
Dragnet Girl
1933
6.81
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978
9.00
Dreams
1990
7.70
Our Planes Fly South
1943
0.00
It's Tough Being a Man
1969
8.10
Monument to Holy Service
1978
0.00
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979
8.50
The Lady and the Beard
1931
5.90
Dislikes
1964
0.00
The Crowded Train
1957
6.75
Life's Simple Pleasures
1955
0.00
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
1960
0.00
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
7.10
When We are Old
1982
0.00
Sennichimae fukin
1945
0.00
Until Spring Comes
1989
0.00
When Winter Comes
1985
0.00
South Wind 2
1942
0.00
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946
0.00
The Castle of Sand
1974
7.40
Until the End of the World
1991
6.79
Always in My Heart
1953
6.80
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
6.50
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
7.00
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951
5.00
The Last Kamikaze
1970
6.00
Traveling in Party
1967
6.00
The Good Fairy
1951
5.50
Farewell to Spring
1959
6.20
Love Letter
1953
6.80
The First Kiss
1955
6.30
The Wiser Age
1962
7.30
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934
7.10
An Inn in Tokyo
1935
6.90
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973
8.00
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988
8.50
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987
9.00
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986
7.50
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
8.00
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
6.50
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
8.00
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
8.50
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982
8.00
Tora-san's Promise
1981
8.00
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980
7.50
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981
8.50
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
1964
5.30
Stray Sheep
1955
0.00
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963
0.00
Tange Sazen
1963
0.00
A Visage to Remember
1948
6.30
Internees of Kampili
1960
0.00
The Golden Demon
1937
6.00
Days of Youth
1929
5.70
Song of the Flower Basket
1937
0.00
The Black Sheep
1967
0.00
Four Sisters
1962
6.00
Oretachi no toki
1976
0.00
High-School Outcasts
1970
0.00
I Lived, But...
1983
6.50
The Refugee
1955
0.00
Miyamoto Musashi
1973
7.10
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
5.20
Flower and Dragon
1973
10.00
The Waves
1952
5.00
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984
8.00
Great X
1948
0.00
Moon Over the Ruins
1937
5.00
Children Hand in Hand
1948
0.00
Eyes of Children
1956
7.00
The Face
1957
0.00
Fight for the Glory
1969
0.00
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980
8.00
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959
10.00
College Is a Nice Place
1936
0.00
Physical Beauty
1928
0.00
Couple on the Move
1928
0.00
Pumpkin
1928
0.00
Wife Lost
1928
0.00
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
6.80
Only She Knows
1960
0.00
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970
7.00
The Youth and His Amulet
1961
0.00
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984
8.00
And Then
1985
7.00
Introspection Tower
1941
6.70
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1963
0.00
Dôkoku
1952
0.00
The New Road: Akemi
1936
7.00
Tora-san's Runaway
1970
7.80
Come Marry Me
1966
6.00
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
7.00
The Greatest Man in the World
1986
0.00
A Hen in the Wind
1948
7.10
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988
6.38
Hearts A-Flutter
1957
0.00
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
0.00
Izu no musumetachi
1945
0.00
The Four Loves
1965
0.00
Dreams of Youth
1928
0.00
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973
8.00
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
8.00
Double Wedding
1963
0.00
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
0.00
Talking with Ozu
1993
6.50
A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939
5.60
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1983
0.00
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960
0.00
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972
7.60
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971
7.80
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971
7.20
Tora-san Goes North
1987
8.70
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
8.00
Goodbye to the Front
1937
0.00
Spring Thunder
1939
0.00
Machi no Hi
1974
0.00
Aoimoku no yome-han
1964
0.00
Warm Current
1966
0.00
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
0.00
Haru no Wakakusa
1954
0.00
Beauty of Life
1951
0.00
Forgotten Children
1949
0.00
New Woman Question and Answer
1939
6.00
Living Image
1948
0.00
Love
1933
0.00
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949
0.00
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
0.00
Kyukei no Koya
1975
0.00
The White Road Across the River
1959
0.00
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
0.00
最後の攘夷党
1945
0.00
Oyuki
1966
0.00
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1961
0.00
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
0.00
Subarashiki shōtai
1955
0.00
Monrō no yōna onna
1964
0.00
Bandits on the Wind
1961
0.00
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966
0.00
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943
0.00