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).
Movies
Tales of a Golden Geisha
Prime Minister
Days with Harasu
Death of a Tea Master
Kokei
So What
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
Narration (voice)
Adrift at Sea
Choji Snack Bar
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
The King and His Vassal
The Last Game
Hunter in the Dark
Shogen
Lord Mito
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Island of Hell
Kaemon Kito
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
The Battle of Okinawa
First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President
Keinosuke Takamatsu
Will to Conquer
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Five Gents and a Kuniang
Gōji Keinosuke
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Chuici Nagumo
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Takeyunosuke Gōji
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Sanpo Sensei
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
Goyokin
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
Crazy Big Discovery
Monument to the Girl's Corps
Nakaji, Principal
Song of Vengeance
看守Ａ
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Ganko (voice)
Kill!
Hyogo Moriuchi
The Saga of Tanegashima
Kinbei Yaita
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Narrator
Monsieur Zivaco
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
Three Faces of Love
Soga
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Senzo
Journey to the North
Kichinosuke Kawara
The Great White Tower
Dash to the Sun
Lost Sex
Neighbor / Writer
Dynamite Doctor
Marshal
Four and A Half Mats
Uyu
Silence Has No Wings
A Company President's Life Story
Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Seizo
An Innocent Witch
Blood and Sea
Sword of the Beast
Minister
The Spy
Illusion of Blood
Life of Matsu the Untamed
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
The Last Judgment
Start Here
President Sagara
Red Beard
Goheiji
Salaryman's Medal
Samurai Assassin
Masagorō Kisoya
Five Gents' Trick Book
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Eddy Currents of Life
Shigesuke Hayashi
The Sandal Keeper
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
The Naked Executive
Kosugi, president
A Story from Echigo
A Public Benefactor
Our Happiness Alone
The Bride is Fifteen
Pale Flower
Yasuoka
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Haiya
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Fight of the Gamblers
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
Tange Sazen
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Akiharu
A House in the Quarter
The Sea of Eden
The Navy
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Double Wedding
Goro
Life of Hishakaku 2
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
The Sunshine Girl
High and Low
Factory Worker
Girls Born in August
Pressure of Guilt
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Sosuke Otomo
Born in Sin
An Autumn Afternoon
Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
The Great Wall
Li Tang
Mount Hakone
The Man From the Sea
This Madding Crowd
Grandpa Yoshi
Akitsu Hot Springs
Priest
A Carpenter and Children
The Bandits
Facing to the Clouds
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Seinen no isu
Foundry Town
Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
Musume to watashi
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Our Marriage
Father
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
Season of Farewell
Shimizu Port Salaryman
The Red Shadow
Jinzaburô Kamo
Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Run, Genta, Run!
Wind and waves of the South
Genji
Buddha
Suratha
The Last War
Captain Umehara
Boss Takes to the Road
Immortal Love
Policeman
The Crimson Plains
Shinzô Okui
The Estuary
The Orphan Brother
Sanshô Dayû (voice)
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Challenge to Live
Fine Man
Yojimbo
Gonji, Tavern Keeper
An Edo Magistrate
The Masterless 47 – Part II
Pigs and Battleships
Kan'ichi
For This We Fight
Botchan yarō seizoroi
My Hometown is the Wild West
The Masterless 47
Gonosuke Kira
The War Without Weapons
Wait for Tomorrow
Seisaku Kajiwara
The Pirates
The Twilight Story
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Isuke Tsujikura
Police Precinct Part 13
The Master Spearman
The Man of Seven Faces
Genkichi Miyashita
Ajisai no uta
The Gambling Samurai
Kansuke
The Great Road
The Cards Will Tell
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Isuke Tsujikura (President)
The Bride from Japan
Mieko's father
The Three Treasures
Ootomo
The Human Wall
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Ripe and Marriageable
Saemon, Hikari's father
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Police Precinct: Car 108
The Beast Shall Die
Detective Kuwashima
High Teen
Good Morning
Hiroshi Tomizawa
Diary of Forsaken Love
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Policeman
Kaze no uchi so to
The Third Dead Angle
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Stream of Youth
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
The Days of Evil Women
Theater of Life
The Naked General
The Naked Sun
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
Mouri
A Grain of Wheat
Aisawa
Oban kanketsu hen
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
The Ballad of Narayama
Messenger
Night Drum
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Chamberlain
Firefly Light
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Fugetsusai
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
The Eleventh Hour
Black River
Kurihara
The Story of Pure Love
The Lower Depths
Tomekichi the Tinker
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Chaplin san
The Shadow Daughter
Untamed Woman
Oshima's father
Hateful Things
Keisuke kiyama
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Fugetsusai
An Osaka Story
Gonzaemon Hoshino
Ôban
Chaplin-San
Rice
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Kansuke
Actress
I Will Buy You
Ogushi
Love on Rainbow Island
Shiimbei Hayashi
The Forest Is Alive
Tears
Undercurrent
Yujiro Funaki
How Sorrowful
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
The Legend of the White Serpent
Flowery Brothers
Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's father, Genkichi
The Vampire Moth
Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
White Fan
Takuetsu
Early Spring
Tokichi Hattori
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
I Live in Fear
Old man from Brazil
Floating Weeds Diary
Magoro Ichikawa
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Baiken Shishido
The Wolves
Murder on The Last Train
Twilight Saloon
Onizuka
Burden of Love
Jozo Araki
Here Is a Spring
Policeman's Diary
Old man Murata
The Cock Crows Twice
Women's House
The Surf
Schoolmaster
The Black Current
The Street Without Sun
President Kunio
Seven Samurai
Kidnapper
The Glorious Days
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
Tokyo Story
Numata
Hiroba no kōdoku
The Wild Geese
Suezo
Girls in the Orchard
Shishun no izumi
Nakamura, a policeman
Jūdai no seiten
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Kozo Kawai
Beauty and the Thief
Jurota
Children of Hiroshima
Sword for Hire
The Yamabiko School
Farewell to Spring
Sakichi Arakawa
The Man from the Moon
Sasaki Kojiro
風雲児
Freedom School
Ginza Cosmetics
Hyôbei Sugano
Yasubei Nakayama
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
A Man from Akagi
Heat and Mud
Devil's Gold
Rinchi
Stray Dog
Late Night Confession
Flame of My Love
State Councillor Itô
Apostasy
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Yoshii
Rira no hana wasureji
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Marriage
Fumie's father
Morning for the Osone Family
Ippei Yamaka
Izu no musumetachi
Otome no iru kichi
Army
Sakuragi
Jubilation Street
Shingo’s father
Sinking the Unsinkable
Navy
Teacher Ogata
Port of Flowers
Hayashida
