Eijirō Tōno
Acting
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).
Born: September 17, 1907
Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan
Known For
水戸黄門 第１部
水戸黄門 第2部
Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying man and young woman who had been brutally attacked, they set out for Kaga Province to wreak vengeance on the responsible parties. Don’t miss this exciting journey into Japanese history!
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Life of Hishakaku 2
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Filmography
as Prime Minister
as Kokei
as Self
as Shogen
as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
as Kaemon Kito
as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
as Keinosuke Takamatsu
as Gōji Keinosuke
as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
as Takeyunosuke Gōji
as Sanpo Sensei
as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
as Nakaji, Principal
as 看守Ａ
as Ganko (voice)
as Hyogo Moriuchi
as Kinbei Yaita
as Narrator
as Soga
as Senzo
as Kichinosuke Kawara
as Neighbor / Writer
as Marshal
as Uyu
as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
as Seizo
as Minister
as President Sagara
as Goheiji
as Masagorō Kisoya
as Shigesuke Hayashi
as Kosugi, president
as Yasuoka
as Akiharu
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
as Goro
as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
as Factory Worker
as Sosuke Otomo
as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
as Li Tang
as Grandpa Yoshi
as Priest
as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Father
as Jinzaburô Kamo
as Genji
as Suratha
as Captain Umehara
as Policeman
as Shinzô Okui
as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
as Kan'ichi
as Gonosuke Kira
as Seisaku Kajiwara
as Isuke Tsujikura
as Genkichi Miyashita
as Kansuke
as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
as Mieko's father
as Ootomo
as Saemon, Hikari's father
as Detective Kuwashima
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
as Policeman
as Aisawa
as Messenger
as Chamberlain
as Fugetsusai
as Kurihara
as Tomekichi the Tinker
as Chaplin san
as Oshima's father
as Keisuke kiyama
as Fugetsusai
as Gonzaemon Hoshino
as Chaplin-San
as Kansuke
as Ogushi
as Shiimbei Hayashi
as Yujiro Funaki
as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
as Tokichi Hattori
as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
as Old man from Brazil
as Magoro Ichikawa
as Baiken Shishido
as Onizuka
as Jozo Araki
as Old man Murata
as Schoolmaster
as President Kunio
as Kidnapper
as Numata
as Suezo
as Nakamura, a policeman
as Kozo Kawai
as Jurota
as Sakichi Arakawa
as Hyôbei Sugano
as State Councillor Itô
as Yoshii
as Fumie's father
as Ippei Yamaka
as Sakuragi
as Shingo’s father
as Teacher Ogata
as Hayashida