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.
Awards & recognition
- Kikuchi Kan Prize · 1987
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · 1967
- Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Supporting Actor · 1952
- Golden Arrow Award
- Mainichi Film Award — Best Actor
Filmography50+ titles
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Tokyo Story
Red Beard
Late Spring
An Autumn Afternoon
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Early Summer
Dreams
Late Autumn
The Bad Sleep Well
Good Morning
Tokyo Twilight
Twenty-Four Eyes
I Was Born, But...
The End of Summer
Floating Weeds
Early Spring
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The Castle of Sand
Equinox Flower
The Only Son
The Eternal Rainbow
The Rickshaw Man
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
A Story of Floating Weeds
Tokyo-Ga
The Funeral
Love Under the Crucifix
The Munekata Sisters
A Hen in the Wind
An Inn in Tokyo
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
There Was a Father
The Snow Flurry
The Moon Has Risen
Love Letter
Boyhood
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
The Wandering Princess
Army
Woman of Tokyo
Until the End of the World
Ornamental Hairpin
Dragnet Girl
Street Without End
Passing Fancy
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
A Taxing Woman's Return
That Night's Wife
Farewell to Spring