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Eijirō Tōno

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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Gunma, Japan, 1907-09-17

Died: 1994-09-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1943	Port of Flowers	Hayashida	72
2	1943	Navy	Teacher Ogata	0
3	1944	Sinking the Unsinkable		0
4	1944	Jubilation Street	Shingo’s father	63
5	1944	Army	Sakuragi	69
6	1945	Otome no iru kichi		0
7	1945	Izu no musumetachi		0
8	1946	Morning for the Osone Family	Ippei Yamaka	69
9	1947	Marriage	Fumie's father	70
10	1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako		68
11	1947	Rira no hana wasureji		0
12	1948	A Woman in the Typhoon Area	Yoshii	50
13	1948	Apostasy		58
14	1949	Flame of My Love	State Councillor Itô	56
15	1949	Late Night Confession		0
16	1949	Stray Dog		75
17	1949	Rinchi		0
18	1950	Devil's Gold		0
19	1950	Heat and Mud		0
20	1950	A Man from Akagi		0
21	1950	Les Miserables I: God and the Devil		0
22	1950	Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom		0
23	1951	Yasubei Nakayama		0
24	1951	Zoku Sasaki Kojiro		0
25	1951	Ginza Cosmetics	Hyôbei Sugano	62
26	1951	Freedom School		0
27	1951	風雲児		0
28	1951	Sasaki Kojiro		50
29	1952	Farewell to Spring	Sakichi Arakawa	0
30	1952	The Yamabiko School		0
31	1952	Sword for Hire		70
32	1952	Children of Hiroshima		73
33	1952	Beauty and the Thief	Jurota	0
34	1952	Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete	Kozo Kawai	0
35	1952	Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu		0
36	1952	One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds		0
37	1953	Jūdai no seiten		0
38	1953	Shishun no izumi	Nakamura, a policeman	0
39	1953	Hiroba no kōdoku		0
40	1953	The Wild Geese	Suezo	65
41	1953	Girls in the Orchard		0
42	1953	Tokyo Story	Numata	82
43	1954	Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls		0
44	1954	The Glorious Days		0
45	1954	Seven Samurai	Kidnapper	85
46	1954	The Street Without Sun	President Kunio	0
47	1954	The Black Current		0
48	1954	The Surf	Schoolmaster	0
49	1954	Women's House		60
50	1954	The Cock Crows Twice		0
51	1955	Policeman's Diary	Old man Murata	65
52	1955	Here Is a Spring		73
53	1955	Burden of Love	Jozo Araki	68
54	1955	Twilight Saloon	Onizuka	80
55	1955	Murder on The Last Train		0
56	1955	The Wolves		68
57	1955	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Baiken Shishido	72
58	1955	Floating Weeds Diary	Magoro Ichikawa	43
59	1955	I Live in Fear	Old man from Brazil	73
60	1956	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Baiken Shishido (uncredited)	72
61	1956	Early Spring	Tokichi Hattori	75
62	1956	White Fan	Takuetsu	0
63	1956	The Vampire Moth	Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô	46
64	1956	Farewell to Dream	Yôichi's father, Genkichi	69
65	1956	Flowery Brothers		0
66	1956	The Legend of the White Serpent		56
67	1956	Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin		0
68	1956	How Sorrowful		0
69	1956	Night River	Yujiro Funaki	62
70	1956	Tears		0
71	1956	The Forest Is Alive		0
72	1956	Love on Rainbow Island	Shiimbei Hayashi	0
73	1956	I Will Buy You	Ogushi	70
74	1956	Actress		0
75	1957	Shimizu Port of Chivalry	Kansuke	75
76	1957	Rice		64
77	1957	Ôban	Chaplin-San	0
78	1957	An Osaka Story	Gonzaemon Hoshino	54
79	1957	Yagyu Secret Scrolls	Fugetsusai	70
80	1957	Untamed Woman	Oshima's father	73
81	1957	The Shadow Daughter		0
82	1957	Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen	Chaplin san	0
83	1957	The Lower Depths	Tomekichi the Tinker	71
84	1957	The Story of Pure Love		68
85	1957	Black River	Kurihara	69
86	1957	The Eleventh Hour		72
87	1957	Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer		0
88	1958	Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II	Fugetsusai	53
89	1958	Firefly Light		0
90	1958	Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness	Chamberlain	0
91	1958	Night Drum		61
92	1958	The Ballad of Narayama	Messenger	75
93	1958	Beyond the Seasonal Wind		0
94	1958	Oban kanketsu hen		0
95	1958	A Grain of Wheat	Aisawa	0
96	1958	The Naked Sun		0
97	1958	The Naked General		0
98	1958	Theater of Life		0
99	1958	The Days of Evil Women		0
100	1958	Yajikita dōchū sugoroku		0
101	1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love		81
102	1959	The Stream of Youth		0
103	1959	The Third Dead Angle		0
104	1959	Kaze no uchi so to		0
105	1959	Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan	Policeman	57
106	1959	Diary of Forsaken Love		0
107	1959	Good Morning	Hiroshi Tomizawa	77
108	1959	High Teen		0
109	1959	Police Precinct: Car 108		0
110	1959	The Beast Shall Die	Detective Kuwashima	56
111	1959	Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka		57
112	1959	Ripe and Marriageable	Saemon, Hikari's father	0
113	1959	Akatsuki no chiheisen		0
114	1959	The Human Wall		50
115	1959	The Three Treasures	Ootomo	54
116	1959	Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi	Mieko's father	0
117	1960	New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking	Isuke Tsujikura (President)	0
118	1960	The Cards Will Tell		0
119	1960	The Great Road		0
120	1960	The Gambling Samurai	Kansuke	63
121	1960	あじさいの歌		0
122	1960	The Man of Seven Faces	Genkichi Miyashita	60
123	1960	The Master Spearman		52
124	1960	Police Precinct Part 13		0
125	1960	New Third Class Executive: Husband Education	Isuke Tsujikura	0
126	1960	The Twilight Story		80
127	1960	The Pirates		72
128	1960	Wait for Tomorrow	Seisaku Kajiwara	0
129	1960	The War Without Weapons		0
130	1960	The Masterless 47	Gonosuke Kira	0
131	1960	Ore no furusato wa dai seibu		0
132	1961	Botchan yarō seizoroi		0
133	1961	For This We Fight		0
134	1961	Pigs and Battleships	Kan'ichi	71
135	1961	The Masterless 47 – Part II		0
136	1961	An Edo Magistrate		58
137	1961	Yojimbo	Gonji, Tavern Keeper	81
138	1961	Fine Man		0
139	1961	Challenge to Live		0
140	1961	Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region		0
141	1961	The Orphan Brother	Sanshô Dayû (voice)	61
142	1961	The Estuary		0
143	1961	The Crimson Plains	Shinzô Okui	0
144	1961	Immortal Love	Policeman	75
145	1961	Boss Takes to the Road		0
146	1961	The Last War	Captain Umehara	62
147	1961	Buddha	Suratha	0
148	1961	Wind and waves of the South	Genji	0
149	1961	Run, Genta, Run!		75
150	1961	Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko		0
151	1961	The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy		0
152	1961	The Red Shadow	Jinzaburô Kamo	64
153	1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman		0
154	1962	Season of Farewell		0
155	1962	Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II		0
156	1962	Our Marriage	Father	67
157	1962	Lady Sen and Hideyori	Tokugawa Ieyasu	80
158	1962	Musume to watashi		0
159	1962	Seinen no isu		0
160	1962	Foundry Town	Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)	76
161	1962	Three Gentlemen from Tokyo		0
162	1962	Facing to the Clouds		0
163	1962	The Bandits		0
164	1962	A Carpenter and Children		0
165	1962	Akitsu Hot Springs		65
166	1962	This Madding Crowd	Grandpa Yoshi	0
167	1962	The Man From the Sea		0
168	1962	Mount Hakone		0
169	1962	The Great Wall	Li Tang	60
170	1962	An Autumn Afternoon	Sakuma, The 'Gourd'	79
171	1962	Born in Sin		0
172	1963	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Sosuke Otomo	65
173	1963	Pressure of Guilt		70
174	1963	Girls Born in August		0
175	1963	High and Low	Factory Worker	83
176	1963	The Sunshine Girl		57
177	1963	Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai		90
178	1963	Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai	Shibiku-Shosuke Hori	70
179	1963	Life of Hishakaku 2		82
180	1963	Double Wedding	Goro	0
181	1963	Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	68
182	1963	The Navy		0
183	1963	A House in the Quarter		60
184	1963	The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman	Akiharu	61
185	1963	Tange Sazen		0
186	1963	Ukyunosuke on Patrol		70
187	1963	Fight of the Gamblers		60
188	1963	Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection		70
189	1964	Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple	Haiya	70
190	1964	Pale Flower	Yasuoka	74
191	1964	Hanayome wa jū go-sai		0
192	1964	Our Happiness Alone		0
193	1964	A Story from Echigo		72
194	1964	The Naked Executive	Kosugi, president	0
195	1964	Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa		0
196	1964	The Sandal Keeper		0
197	1964	Eddy Currents of Life	Shigesuke Hayashi	0
198	1964	The Donkey Comes on a Tank		0
199	1965	Samurai Assassin	Masagorō Kisoya	74
200	1965	Five Gents' Trick Book		0
201	1965	Salaryman's Medal		0
202	1965	Red Beard	Goheiji	81
203	1965	The Last Judgment		0
204	1965	Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man		0
205	1965	Life of Matsu the Untamed		0
206	1965	Illusion of Blood		62
207	1965	The Spy		0
208	1965	Sword of the Beast	Minister	75
209	1965	Blood and Sea		0
210	1965	An Innocent Witch		71
211	1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri 3	Seizo	70
212	1966	A Company President's Life Story	Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)	0
213	1966	Silence Has No Wings		70
214	1966	Four and A Half Mats	Uyu	0
215	1966	Dynamite Doctor	Marshal	0
216	1966	Lost Sex	Neighbor / Writer	0
217	1966	Dash to the Sun		0
218	1966	The Great White Tower		67
219	1967	Zatoichi's Cane Sword	Senzo	73
220	1967	Journey to the North	Kichinosuke Kawara	0
221	1967	Three Faces of Love	Soga	0
222	1967	Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!		0
223	1967	Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!		0
224	1967	Monsieur Zivaco		0
225	1967	Shogun and His Mistress 2	Narrator	35
226	1967	Young Boss: Leader's Flesh		0
227	1967	Japan's No. 1 Best Man		0
228	1968	Wild Ducks and Green Onions		0
229	1968	The Saga of Tanegashima	Kinbei Yaita	50
230	1968	Kill!	Hyogo Moriuchi	70
231	1968	Horus: Prince of the Sun	Ganko (voice)	63
232	1968	Song of Vengeance	看守Ａ	50
233	1968	Monument to the Girl's Corps	Nakaji, Principal	0
234	1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu	Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)	0
235	1969	Goyokin		76
236	1969	5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II	Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)	0
237	1969	Tora-san's Cherished Mother	Sanpo Sensei	68
238	1970	Five Gents Fly to Taiwan	Takeyunosuke Gōji	0
239	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Admiral Chuici Nagumo	71
240	1970	The Summit of Mt. Fuji		0
241	1970	Five Gents and a Kuniang	Gōji Keinosuke	0
242	1970	Will to Conquer		0
243	1971	The Battle of Okinawa		75
244	1977	Island of Hell	Kaemon Kito	50
245	1978	Lord Mito	Tokugawa Mitsukuni	95
246	1979	Hunter in the Dark	Shogen	65
247	1979	The Last Game		0
248	1981	The King and His Vassal		0
249	1982	The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo		0
250	1983	I Lived, But...	Self	65
251	1983	Choji Snack Bar		70
252	1983	Adrift at Sea		0
253	1984	Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-	Narration (voice)	58
254	1988	So What		0
255	1989	Death of a Tea Master	Kokei	54
256	1989	Days with Harasu		0
257	1990	Tales of a Golden Geisha	Prime Minister	63

Television

No.	Year	Title	Vote Average
1	1969	水戸黄門　第１部	100
2	1970	水戸黄門　第2部	100
3	1971	水戸黄門第3部	0