Eijirō Tōno
Cast

Eijirō Tōno

1907 – 1994
Active years (films on this site)
1949–1964
Genres
DramaCrimeActionFilm-NoirComedy
Schools and movements
Japanese Golden AgeJapanese New WaveContemporary Asian Cinema

Directors worked with

Akira Kurosawa3 filmsYasujiro Ozu2 filmsMasaki Kobayashi1 filmKeisuke Kinoshita1 filmShohei Imamura1 filmTadashi Imai1 filmMasahiro Shinoda1 film

Biography

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).

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Awards and honours

National / local

10 films on this site

  1. Stray Dog 1949 · Akira Kurosawa · IMDb 7.8 · Cast
  2. Tokyo Story 1953 · Yasujiro Ozu · IMDb 8.1 · Cast
  3. Black River 1957 · Masaki Kobayashi · IMDb 7.2 · Cast
  4. The Lower Depths (1957) 1957 · Akira Kurosawa · IMDb 7.2 · Cast
  5. The Ballad of Narayama (1958) 1958 · Keisuke Kinoshita · IMDb 7.8 · Cast
  6. Pigs and Battleships 1961 · Shohei Imamura · IMDb 7.4 · Cast
  7. Yojimbo 1961 · Akira Kurosawa · IMDb 8.2 · Cast
  8. An Autumn Afternoon 1962 · Yasujiro Ozu · IMDb 8.0 · Cast
  9. Bushido, Samurai Saga 1963 · Tadashi Imai · IMDb 7.4 · Cast
  10. Pale Flower 1964 · Masahiro Shinoda · IMDb 7.7 · Cast