Chishū Ryū
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version | High Priest | HIT | |
| 1992 | Tora-san Makes Excuses | High Priest | HIT | |
| 1991 | Tora-san Confesses | High Priest | HIT | |
| 1990 | Tora-san Takes a Vacation | High Priest | HIT | |
| 1989 | Tora-san, My Uncle | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1989 | Tora-san Goes to Vienna | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1988 | Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1987 | Tora-san Plays Daddy | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1987 | Tora-san Goes North | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1985 | Tora-san's Island Encounter | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1984 | Tora-san's Forbidden Love | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1984 | Marriage Counselor Tora-san | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1983 | Tora-san Goes Religious? | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1983 | Tora-san's Song of Love | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1982 | Tora-san, the Expert | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1982 | Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1981 | Tora-san's Promise | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1981 | Tora-san's Love in Osaka | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1980 | Tora-san's Tropical Fever | Priest | HIT | |
| 1979 | Tora-san's Dream of Spring | - | HIT | |
| 1979 | Tora-san, the Matchmaker | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1978 | Talk of the Town Tora-san | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1978 | Stage-Struck Tora-san | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1977 | Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Gozensama | HIT | |
| 1976 | Tora-san's Pure Love | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1976 | Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset | Priest | HIT | |
| 1975 | Tora-san, the Intellectual | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1975 | Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1973 | Tora-san Loves an Artist | - | HIT | |
| 1973 | Flower and Dragon | - | HIT | |
| 1973 | Tora-san's Forget Me Not | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1971 | Tora-san's Love Call | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1971 | Tora-san, the Good Samaritan | the High Priest | HIT | |
| 1970 | Tora-san's Runaway | High Priest | HIT | |
| 1969 | Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp | Gozen-sama | HIT | |
| 1965 | Red Beard | Mr. Yasumoto | HIT | |
| 1965 | The Soundless Cry | Tateno | HIT | |
| 1965 | The Radish and the Carrot | - | HIT | |
| 1962 | An Autumn Afternoon | Shuhei Hirayama | HIT | |
| 1961 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | Hinanmin no Chôrô | HIT | |
| 1960 | Late Autumn | Shukichi Miwa | HIT | |
| 1960 | The Bad Sleep Well | Public Prosecutor Nonaka | HIT | |
| 1959 | Good Morning | Keitaro Hayashi | HIT | |
| 1959 | I Want to Be a Shellfish | Komiya | HIT | |
| 1957 | Tokyo Twilight | Shukichi Sugiyama | HIT | |
| 1956 | The Storm | - | HIT | |
| 1954 | Twenty-Four Eyes | Otoko Sensei | HIT | |
| 1953 | Tokyo Story | Shukichi Hirayama | HIT | |
| 1951 | Early Summer | Koichi Mamiya | HIT | |
| 1949 | Late Spring | Shukichi Somiya | HIT |