Name
Eijirō Tōno
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-09-17
Deathday
1994-09-08 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Tomioka, Japon
Biography
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) 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 (Tales of a Golden Geisha) 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).
Known For
Seven Samurai
(4,436 Votes)
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A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The tow...
Relase Date : 26 Apr, 1954
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(306 Votes)
8.2
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the ...
Relase Date : 15 Jan, 1959
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Tokyo Story
(1,280 Votes)
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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside vi...
Relase Date : 3 Nov, 1953
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
(639 Votes)
7.2
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
Relase Date : 26 Jan, 1970
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Good Morning
(334 Votes)
7.7
Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. ...
Relase Date : 12 May, 1959
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An Autumn Afternoon
(341 Votes)
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Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he co...
Relase Date : 18 Nov, 1962
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1954 Seven Samurai as Kidnapper
- 1967 Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Narrator
- 1965 Red Beard as Goheiji
- 1956 Early Spring as Tokichi Hattori
- 1949 Stray Dog
- 1955 I Live in Fear as Old man from Brazil
- 1961 Pigs and Battleships as Kan'ichi
- 1959 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- 1961 Yojimbo as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
- 1957 The Lower Depths as Tomekichi the Tinker
- 1989 Death of a Tea Master as Kokei
- 1963 High and Low as Factory Worker
- 1950 Heat and Mud
- 1952 Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- 1959 Good Morning as Hiroshi Tomizawa
- 1949 Rinchi
- 1957 Untamed Woman as Oshima's father
- 1962 Lady Sen and Hideyori as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1964 Pale Flower as Yasuoka
- 1951 Yasubei Nakayama
- 1962 Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- 1952 Beauty and the Thief as Jurota
- 1952 Farewell to Spring as Sakichi Arakawa
- 1979 Hunter in the Dark as Shogen
- 1962 Musume to watashi
- 1968 Kill! as Hyogo Moriuchi
- 1962 Shimizu Port Salaryman
- 1965 Sword of the Beast as Minister
- 1962 Seinen no isu
- 1953 Tokyo Story as Numata
- 1963 Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1962 Foundry Town as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
- 1950 A Man from Akagi
- 1962 The Great Wall as Li Tang
- 1953 Hiroba no kōdoku
- 1951 Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
- 1966 Dynamite Doctor as Marshal
- 1968 Horus: Prince of the Sun as Ganko (voice)
- 1967 Zatoichi's Cane Sword as Senzo
- 1963 Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
- 1961 The Estuary
- 1951 Sasaki Kojiro
- 1963 The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman as Akiharu
- 1964 The Naked Executive as Kosugi, president
- 1952 Children of Hiroshima
- 1962 Facing to the Clouds
- 1958 Oban kanketsu hen
- 1957 Ôban as Chaplin-San
- 1957 Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Chaplin san
- 1959 The Bride from Japan as Mieko's father
- 1965 Samurai Assassin as Masagorō Kisoya
- 1961 The Last War as Captain Umehara
- 1957 Black River as Kurihara
- 1949 Flame of My Love as State Councillor Itô
- 1957 Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Fugetsusai
- 1956 I Will Buy You as Ogushi
- 1946 Morning for the Osone Family as Ippei Yamaka
- 1955 Twilight Saloon as Onizuka
- 1953 The Wild Geese as Suezo
- 1958 Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Fugetsusai
- 1956 Farewell to Dream as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
- 1982 The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
- 1981 The King and His Vassal
- 1965 Blood and Sea
- 1959 Police Precinct: Car 108
- 1958 Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1968 Wild Ducks and Green Onions
- 1961 Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- 1966 The Great White Tower as Professor Teizō Azuma
- 1989 Days with Harasu
- 1960 The Masterless 47 as Gonosuke Kira
- 1943 Navy as Teacher Ogata
- 1961 The Crimson Plains as Shinzô Okui
- 1966 Dash to the Sun
- 1961 The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- 1956 The Forest Is Alive
- 1959 Kaze no uchi so to
- 1968 It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
- 1950 Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
- 1950 Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
- 1943 Port of Flowers as Hayashida
- 1951 Freedom School
- 1967 Journey to the North as Kichinosuke Kawara
- 1961 Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
- 1962 Mount Hakone
- 1953 Jūdai no seiten
- 1951 風雲児
- 1958 Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness as Chamberlain
- 1962 Akitsu Hot Springs as Priest
- 1961 An Edo Magistrate
- 1960 My Hometown is the Wild West
- 1971 The Battle of Okinawa as Yoshijirō Umezu
- 1968 Song of Vengeance as 看守Ａ
- 1970 Will to Conquer as Sezaemon
- 1966 Four and A Half Mats as Uyu
- 1951 Ginza Cosmetics as Hyôbei Sugano
- 1968 Monument to the Girl's Corps as Nakaji, Principal
- 1961 Buddha as Suratha
- 1952 One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- 1962 A Carpenter and Children
- 1956 Undercurrent as Yujiro Funaki
- 1955 Here Is a Spring
- 1955 Policeman's Diary as Old man Murata
- 1955 The Wolves
- 1958 A Grain of Wheat as Aisawa
- 1961 Run, Genta, Run!
- 1965 Illusion of Blood
- 1956 Vampire Moth as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
- 1948 Apostasy
- 1956 How Sorrowful
- 1958 Firefly Light
- 1960 The War Without Weapons as Kamematsu Yamamoto, Senji's father
- 1958 Night Drum
- 1965 The Spy
- 1962 The Man From the Sea
- 1956 The Legend of the White Serpent
- 1949 Late Night Confession
- 1961 Boss Takes to the Road
- 1960 The Twilight Story
- 1960 The Gambling Samurai as Kansuke
- 1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Sosuke Otomo
- 1964 The Sandal Keeper
- 1961 Immortal Love as Policeman
- 1963 Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
- 1965 An Innocent Witch
- 1959 The Human Wall
- 1959 Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
- 1947 Marriage as Fumie's father
- 1956 Love on Rainbow Island as Shiimbei Hayashi
- 1956 White Fan as Takuetsu
- 1959 Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Policeman
- 1944 Jubilation Street as Shingo’s father
- 1960 The Man of Seven Faces as Genkichi Miyashita
- 1964 A Story from Echigo
- 1957 Shimizu Port of Chivalry as Kansuke
- 1954 Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
- 1963 Tange Sazen
- 1957 Rice
- 1948 A Woman in the Typhoon Area as Yoshii
- 1988 So What
- 1954 The Black Current
- 1958 The Ballad of Narayama as Messenger
- 1963 A House in the Quarter
- 1964 Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Haiya
- 1962 Our Marriage as Father
- 1957 An Osaka Story as Gonzaemon Hoshino
- 1962 Season of Farewell
- 1968 The Saga of Tanegashima as Kinbei Yaita
- 1952 Sword for Hire
- 1965 Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 as Seizo
- 1963 Life of Hishakaku 2
- 1962 The Bandits
- 1983 I Lived, But... as Self
- 1961 Fine Man
- 1955 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Baiken Shishido
- 1956 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
- 1958 Beyond the Seasonal Wind as Principal Saiki
- 1977 Island of Hell as Kaemon Kito
- 1963 The Sunshine Girl
- 1964 Our Happiness Alone
- 1963 Ukyunosuke on Patrol
- 1967 Three Faces of Love as Soga
- 1954 The Cock Crows Twice
- 1983 Choji Snack Bar
- 1963 Pressure of Guilt
- 1962 Born in Sin
- 1958 The Days of Evil Women
- 1955 Murder on the Last Train
- 1964 Eddy Currents of Life as Shigesuke Hayashi
- 1959 The Third Dead Angle
- 1958 The Naked Sun as Yoshida
- 1959 The Three Treasures as Ootomo
- 1959 The Beast Shall Die as Detective Kuwashima
- 1978 Lord Mito as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
- 1961 The Orphan Brother as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
- 1956 Flowery Brothers
- 1961 Challenge to Live
- 1944 Army as Sakuragi
- 1960 The Master Spearman
- 1966 Lost Sex as Neighbor / Writer
- 1966 Silence Has No Wings
- 1960 Wait for Tomorrow as Seisaku Kajiwara
- 1969 Tora-san's Cherished Mother as Sanpo Sensei
- 1958 The Naked General
- 1963 Girls Born in August
- 1962 An Autumn Afternoon as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- 1961 The Red Shadow as Jinzaburô Kamo
- 1963 Fight of the Gamblers
- 1963 The Navy
- 1944 Sinking the Unsinkable
- 1956 Tears
- 1961 The Masterless 47 – Part II
- 1959 Diary of Forsaken Love
- 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
- 1967 Monsieur Zivaco
- 1957 The Story of Pure Love
- 1964 The Donkey Comes on a Tank
- 1990 Tales of a Golden Geisha as Prime Minister
- 1945 The Young Women of Izu
- 1952 Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Kozo Kawai
- 1955 Burden of Love as Jozo Araki
- 1957 The Eleventh Hour
- 1983 Adrift at Sea
- 1963 Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
- 1962 Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- 1984 Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo- as Narration (voice)
- 1952 The Yamabiko School
- 1947 The Love of the Actress Sumako
- 1956 Actress
- 1963 Double Wedding as Goro
- 1969 Goyokin
- 1962 This Madding Crowd as Grandpa Yoshi
- 1950 Devil's Gold
- 1958 Theater of Life
- 1961 Wind and waves of the South as Genji
- 1953 Shishun no izumi as Nakamura, a policeman
- 1954 The Street Without Sun as President Kunio
- 1960 The Great Road
- 1960 The Pirates
- 1945 Otome no iru kichi
- 1967 Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
- 1965 Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
- 1959 The Stream of Youth
- 1953 Girls in the Orchard
- 1965 The Last Judgment
- 1954 The Surf as Schoolmaster
- 1965 Five Gents' Trick Book
- 1955 Floating Weeds Diary as Magoro Ichikawa
- 1957 Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
- 1954 The Glorious Days
- 1964 Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
- 1979 The Last Game
- 1956 Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
- 1954 Women's House
- 1959 Ripe and Marriageable as Saemon, Hikari's father
- 1965 Salaryman's Medal
- 1970 The Summit of Mt. Fuji
- 1961 Botchan yarō seizoroi
- 1960 The Cards Will Tell
- 1964 The Bride is Fifteen
- 1947 Rira no hana wasureji
- 1959 High Teen
- 1961 For This We Fight
- 1967 Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
- 1959 Akatsuki no chiheisen
- 1967 Japan's No. 1 Best Man
- 1960 New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
- 1967 Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
- 1960 New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Isuke Tsujikura
- 1966 A Company President's Life Story as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
- 1969 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
- 1969 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
- 1960 Ajisai no uta
- 1970 Five Gents Fly to Taiwan as Takeyunosuke Gōji
- 1970 Five Gents and a Kuniang as Gōji Keinosuke
- 1957 The Shadow Daughter as Shigeo
- 1965 Life of Matsu the Untamed
- 1960 Police Precinct Part 13
- 1971 First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff as Keinosuke Takamatsu
- 1971 First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
- 1963 The Sea of Eden
- 1957 Hateful Things as Keisuke Kiyama
- 1951 The Man from the Moon
- 1965 Start Here as President Sagara
- 1958 Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 as Mouri
- 1964 A Public Benefactor
- 1969 Crazy Big Discovery
- 1967 Industrial Spy Free-for-All
- 1959 The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
- 1966 Kill the Night Rose
- 1952 Her Secret
- 1960 The Forbidden Scoop
- 1958 The Young Beast
- 1946 Kigeki wa owarinu
- 1964 白さぎと少年 as Narrator (voice)
- 1967 Goal for the Young
- 1955 Beautiful Days as Imanishi's Father
- 1958 Princess of Revenge
- 1967 The Burning Sun
- 1968 The Flame of Youth
- 1961 Sanctuary
- 1960 The Brawler as Section Chief Kitaura
- 1953 Waseda University as Guest Nomura
- 1984 The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1957 Turtledove
- 1960 Just Barely
- 1947 Duel at Moonrise
- 1953 The Tattoo Murder Case
- 1948 As If To Kill
- 1956 Asashio yushio
- 1949 Chobei the Rogue
- 1950 Kazanmyaku
- 1960 The Brass General
- 1960 The Curio Master
- 1955 Love at Forty
- 1953 Asama no karasu
- 1957 Love of the Princess
- 1956 Easy-Going Married Couple
- 1964 Modern Gentleman
- 1954 Midori no nakama
- 1954 Woman of Fire
- 1954 The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
- 1956 Hanayome no tameiki
- 1958 Handcuffs
- 1961 Tōshi reijō
- 1969 水戸黄門 第１部 ( 1 episode )
- 1970 水戸黄門 第2部 ( 1 episode )
- 1971 水戸黄門 第3部 ( 1 episode )
- 1968 It's Tough Being a Man ( 26 episodes )
