Eijirō Tōno
September 17, 1907 (117 years old) in Gunma, Japan
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
Credits
- 1990 · Tales of a Golden Geisha as Prime Minister
- 1989 · Days with Harasu as
- 1989 · Death of a Tea Master as Kokei
- 1988 · So What as
- 1984 · Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo- as Narration (voice)
- 1983 · Adrift at Sea as
- 1983 · Choji Snack Bar as
- 1983 · I Lived, But... as Self
- 1982 · The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo as
- 1981 · The King and His Vassal as
- 1979 · The Last Game as
- 1979 · Hunter in the Dark as Shogen
- 1978 · Lord Mito as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
- 1977 · Island of Hell as Kaemon Kito
- 1971 · 水戸黄門 第3部 as
- 1971 · The Battle of Okinawa as
- 1970 · Will to Conquer as
- 1970 · 水戸黄門 第2部 as
- 1970 · The Summit of Mt. Fuji as
- 1970 · Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
- 1969 · Tora-san's Cherished Mother as Sanpo Sensei
- 1969 · 水戸黄門 第１部 as
- 1969 · Goyokin as
- 1968 · Monument to the Girl's Corps as Nakaji, Principal
- 1968 · Song of Vengeance as 看守Ａ
- 1968 · Horus: Prince of the Sun as Ganko (voice)
- 1968 · Kill! as Hyogo Moriuchi
- 1968 · The Saga of Tanegashima as Kinbei Yaita
- 1968 · Wild Ducks and Green Onions as
- 1967 · Young Boss: Leader's Flesh as
- 1967 · Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Narrator
- 1967 · Monsieur Zivaco as
- 1967 · Three Faces of Love as Soga
- 1967 · Zatoichi's Cane Sword as Senzo
- 1967 · Journey to the North as Kichinosuke Kawara
- 1966 · The Great White Tower as
- 1966 · Dash to the Sun as
- 1966 · Lost Sex as Neighbor / Writer
- 1966 · Dynamite Doctor as Marshal
- 1966 · Four and A Half Mats as Uyu
- 1966 · Silence Has No Wings as
- 1965 · Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 as Seizo
- 1965 · An Innocent Witch as
- 1965 · Blood and Sea as
- 1965 · Sword of the Beast as Minister
- 1965 · The Spy as
- 1965 · Illusion of Blood as
- 1965 · Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko as
- 1965 · The Last Judgment as
- 1965 · Red Beard as Goheiji
- 1965 · Salaryman's Medal as
- 1965 · Samurai Assassin as Masagorō Kisoya
- 1965 · Five Gents' Trick Book as
- 1964 · The Donkey Comes on a Tank as
- 1964 · Eddy Currents of Life as Shigesuke Hayashi
- 1964 · ホラ吹き太閤記 as
- 1964 · Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa as
- 1964 · The Naked Executive as Kosugi, president
- 1964 · A Story from Echigo as
- 1964 · Our Happiness Alone as
- 1964 · Pale Flower as Yasuoka
- 1964 · Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple as Haiya
- 1963 · Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection as
- 1963 · Fight of the Gamblers as
- 1963 · Ukyunosuke on Patrol as
- 1963 · Tange Sazen as
- 1963 · The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman as Akiharu
- 1963 · A House in the Quarter as
- 1963 · The Navy as
- 1963 · Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1963 · Double Wedding as Goro
- 1963 · Life of Hishakaku 2 as
- 1963 · Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
- 1963 · Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai as
- 1963 · The Sunshine Girl as
- 1963 · High and Low as Factory Worker
- 1963 · Girls Born in August as
- 1963 · Pressure of Guilt as
- 1963 · Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Sosuke Otomo
- 1962 · Born in Sin as
- 1962 · An Autumn Afternoon as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- 1962 · The Great Wall as Li Tang
- 1962 · Mount Hakone as
- 1962 · The Man From the Sea as
- 1962 · This Madding Crowd as Grandpa Yoshi
- 1962 · Akitsu Hot Springs as
- 1962 · A Carpenter and Children as
- 1962 · The Bandits as
- 1962 · Facing to the Clouds as
- 1962 · Three Gentlemen from Tokyo as
- 1962 · Foundry Town as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
- 1962 · Seinen no isu as
- 1962 · Musume to watashi as
- 1962 · Lady Sen and Hideyori as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1962 · Our Marriage as Father
- 1962 · 続サラリーマン清水港 as
- 1962 · Season of Farewell as
- 1962 · Salaryman Shimizu Minato as
- 1961 · The Red Shadow as Jinzaburô Kamo
- 1961 · 早射ち無頼 大平原の男 as
- 1961 · The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy as
- 1961 · Run, Genta, Run! as
- 1961 · Wind and waves of the South as Genji
- 1961 · Buddha as Suratha
- 1961 · The Last War as Captain Umehara
- 1961 · Boss Takes to the Road as
- 1961 · Immortal Love as Policeman
- 1961 · The Crimson Plains as Shinzô Okui
- 1961 · The Estuary as
- 1961 · The Orphan Brother as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
- 1961 · Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region as
- 1961 · Challenge to Live as
- 1961 · Fine Man as
- 1961 · Yojimbo as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
- 1961 · An Edo Magistrate as
- 1961 · The Masterless 47 – Part II as
- 1961 · Pigs and Battleships as Kan'ichi
- 1961 · Botchan yarō seizoroi as
- 1960 · 俺の故郷は大西部 as
- 1960 · The Masterless 47 as Gonosuke Kira
- 1960 · The War Without Weapons as
- 1960 · Wait for Tomorrow as Seisaku Kajiwara
- 1960 · The Pirates as
- 1960 · The Twilight Story as
- 1960 · Police Precinct Part 13 as
- 1960 · The Master Spearman as
- 1960 · The Man of Seven Faces as Genkichi Miyashita
- 1960 · The Gambling Samurai as Kansuke
- 1960 · The Great Road as
- 1959 · Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi as Mieko's father
- 1959 · The Three Treasures as Ootomo
- 1959 · The Human Wall as
- 1959 · Ripe and Marriageable as Saemon, Hikari's father
- 1959 · Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka as
- 1959 · The Beast Shall Die as Detective Kuwashima
- 1959 · Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha as
- 1959 · Good Morning as Hiroshi Tomizawa
- 1959 · Diary of Forsaken Love as
- 1959 · Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Policeman
- 1959 · Kaze no uchi so to as
- 1959 · The Third Dead Angle as
- 1959 · The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as
- 1959 · The Stream of Youth as
- 1958 · Yajikita dōchū sugoroku as
- 1958 · The Days of Evil Women as
- 1958 · Theater of Life as
- 1958 · The Naked General as
- 1958 · The Naked Sun as
- 1958 · A Grain of Wheat as Aisawa
- 1958 · Oban kanketsu hen as
- 1958 · Beyond the Seasonal Wind as
- 1958 · The Ballad of Narayama as Messenger
- 1958 · Night Drum as
- 1958 · Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness as Chamberlain
- 1958 · Firefly Light as
- 1958 · Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Fugetsusai
- 1957 · Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer as
- 1957 · The Eleventh Hour as
- 1957 · Black River as Kurihara
- 1957 · The Story of Pure Love as
- 1957 · The Lower Depths as Tomekichi the Tinker
- 1957 · Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Chaplin san
- 1957 · Untamed Woman as Oshima's father
- 1957 · Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Fugetsusai
- 1957 · An Osaka Story as Gonzaemon Hoshino
- 1957 · Ôban as Chaplin-San
- 1957 · Rice as
- 1957 · Shimizu Port of Chivalry as Kansuke
- 1956 · Actress as
- 1956 · I Will Buy You as Ogushi
- 1956 · 裸足の青春 as Shiimbei Hayashi
- 1956 · The Forest Is Alive as
- 1956 · Tears as
- 1956 · Night River as Yujiro Funaki
- 1956 · How Sorrowful as
- 1956 · Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin as
- 1956 · The Legend of the White Serpent as
- 1956 · Flowery Brothers as
- 1956 · Farewell to Dream as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
- 1956 · The Vampire Moth as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
- 1956 · White Fan as Takuetsu
- 1956 · Early Spring as Tokichi Hattori
- 1956 · Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
- 1955 · I Live in Fear as Old man from Brazil
- 1955 · Floating Weeds Diary as Magoro Ichikawa
- 1955 · Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Baiken Shishido
- 1955 · The Wolves as
- 1955 · Murder on The Last Train as
- 1955 · Twilight Saloon as Onizuka
- 1955 · Burden of Love as Jozo Araki
- 1955 · Here Is a Spring as
- 1955 · Policeman's Diary as Old man Murata
- 1954 · The Cock Crows Twice as
- 1954 · Women's House as
- 1954 · The Surf as Schoolmaster
- 1954 · The Black Current as
- 1954 · The Street Without Sun as President Kunio
- 1954 · Seven Samurai as Kidnapper
- 1954 · The Glorious Days as
- 1954 · 旗本退屈男 どくろ屋敷 as
- 1953 · Tokyo Story as Numata
- 1953 · Hiroba no kōdoku as
- 1953 · The Wild Geese as Suezo
- 1953 · Girls in the Orchard as
- 1953 · Shishun no izumi as Nakamura, a policeman
- 1953 · Wife as
- 1953 · Jûdai no seiten as
- 1952 · Fuun Senryobune as
- 1952 · Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu as
- 1952 · Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Kozo Kawai
- 1952 · Beauty and the Thief as Jurota
- 1952 · Children of Hiroshima as
- 1952 · Sword for Hire as
- 1952 · The Yamabiko School as
- 1952 · Farewell to Spring as Sakichi Arakawa
- 1951 · Sasaki Kojiro as
- 1951 · 風雲児 as
- 1951 · Freedom School as
- 1951 · Ginza Cosmetics as Hyôbei Sugano
- 1951 · Yasubei Nakayama as
- 1951 · Zoku Sasaki Kojiro as
- 1950 · Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom as
- 1950 · Les Miserables I: God and the Devil as
- 1950 · A Man from Akagi as
- 1950 · Heat and Mud as
- 1950 · Devil's Gold as
- 1949 · Rinchi as
- 1949 · Stray Dog as
- 1949 · Late Night Confession as
- 1949 · Flame of My Love as State Councillor Itô
- 1948 · Apostasy as
- 1948 · A Woman in the Typhoon Area as Yoshii
- 1947 · The Love of the Actress Sumako as
- 1947 · Marriage as Fumie's father
- 1946 · Morning for the Osone Family as Ippei Yamaka
- 1945 · Izu no musumetachi as
- 1945 · Otome no iru kichi as
- 1944 · Army as Sakuragi
- 1944 · Jubilation Street as Shingo’s father
- 1944 · Sinking the Unsinkable as
- 1943 · Navy as Teacher Ogata
- 1943 · Port of Flowers as Hayashida