# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eijiro-tono
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:57.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eijiro-tono"
name: "Eijirō Tōno"
slug: "eijiro-tono"
description: "Eijirō Tōno  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 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)."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1907–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eijiro_Tono_1954_Scan10052-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-09-17"
deathDate: "1994-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.74
  momentum:             8.597938144329898
  historical:           9.238521333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867391/"
    handle:    "nm0867391"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Тоно, Эйдзиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايچيرو تونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "ایجیرو تونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E9%87%8E%E8%8B%B1%E6%B2%BB%E9%83%8E"
    title: "東野英治郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dno"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3049379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106165"
    title: "Eijirō Tōno"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump