Eijirō Tōno
Japanese actor (1907-1994) · Japan · On the map · Actors · Died at 86
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.
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Death of a Tea MasterFilm, Kokei1975Medal with Purple RibbonAward1971
水戸黄門 第3部Series
The Battle of OkinawaFilm, 1971Yoshijirō Umezu1970
水戸黄門 第2部Series
Tora! Tora! Tora!Film, 1970Admiral Chuici Nagumo1969
水戸黄門 第１部Series1968
It's Tough Being a ManSeries
Horus: Prince of the SunFilm, 1968Ganko (voice)1966
Silence Has No WingsFilm1965
Red BeardFilm, Goheiji1963
A House in the QuarterFilm1961
Immortal LoveFilm, Policeman1958
Night DrumFilm1957
Black RiverFilm, Kurihara1955Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting ActorAward
I Live in FearFilm, 1955Old man from Brazil1953
Tokyo StoryFilm, Numata1952
Children of HiroshimaFilm1949
Stray DogFilm1907Born17 September 1907People around Eijirō
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Akira Kurosawa Directed Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Stray Dog
Toshiro Mifune Also in Stray Dog and Red Beard
Tatsuya Nakadai Also in Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and High and Low
Kaneto Shindō Directed Children of Hiroshima and Wolf
Tadashi Imai Directed Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Haruko Sugimura Also in Red Beard and Life of a Woman
Isao Kimura Also in Seven Samurai and Stray Dog
Sō Yamamura Also in Tokyo Story and The Last War
Tomoyuki Tanaka Produced Yojimbo, Red Beard and The Last War
Nobuko Otowa Also in Children of Hiroshima and The Last War
Seiji Miyaguchi Also in Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Untamed
Eitarō Ozawa Also in The Love of the Actress Sumako and Wolf
Taiji Tonoyama Also in Children of Hiroshima and Wolf
Kin Sugai Also in High and Low and Red Beard
Kō Nishimura Also in Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Jūkichi Uno Also in Children of Hiroshima and Wolf
Takashi Shimura Also in Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Stray Dog
Ryūzō Kikushima Produced High and Low and Red Beard
Takeshi Katō Also in High and Low and Pigs and Battleships
Kyōko Kagawa Also in Red Beard and The Lower Depths
Kōzaburō Yoshimura Produced Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Masaru Sato Wrote Yojimbo, High and Low and Red Beard
Bokuzen Hidari Also in Red Beard and The Lower Depths
Daisuke Katō Also in Seven Samurai and Untamed
Known for
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Seven Samurai 1954
High and Low 1963
Red Beard 1965
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959
Yojimbo 1961
Also in Français
Filmography 40
308 credits on file
Television 4
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
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).
