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
was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema ...
, such as ''
Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a villag ...
'' (1954) and ''
Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamat ...
'' (1961), and films by
Yasujirō Ozu
was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.
The most pr ...
, such as ''
Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Upon release, it did not immediately gain international reco ...
'' (1953) and ''
An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962). He also appeared in ''
Kill!'' by
Kihachi Okamoto
was a Cinema of Japan, Japanese film director who worked in several different film genre, genres.
Career
Born in Yonago, Tottori, Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted into the Air Force 1943 and entered World War II, an exp ...
and ''
Tora! Tora! Tora!'', a depiction of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reci ...
. His final film was
Juzo Itami
, born , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself.
He is the namesake of the Juzo Itami Award, founded in 2009 to honor his legacy.
Early life
...
's ''
A-ge-man'' (''Tales of a Golden Geisha'') in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television ''
jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "historical drama, period dramas", it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
''Jidaigeki'' show the lives of the samurai, farmers, crafts ...
'' 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).
Early life
Eijirō Tōno was born on 17 September 1907 in
Tomioka City,
Gunma Prefecture
is a landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of . Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fuk ...
, Japan.
Born to a
sake
Sake, , or saki, also referred to as Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Despite the name ''Japanese rice wine'', sake, and indeed any East Asi ...
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...
, his father was a Hino
merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated i ...
(Ōmi merchant), who had moved to
Kantō alone from a mountain village in
Ōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō Circuit (subnational entity), circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, ...
and worked his way to become a sake brewer from the ground up.
Tōno attended Tomioka Middle School. After enrolling as a student in the Commerce Department of
Meiji University
is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920.
As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...
[ he joined the left-wing Society for the Study of Social Science (社会科学研究会 : ''Shakai-kagaku kenkyukai''). This was politically dangerous, as the ]Peace Preservation Law
The was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists. In addition to criminalizing forming an association with the aim of altering the ...
of 1925 made members of any association whose object was the alteration of the kokutai (National Polity), or of the system of private property, liable to imprisonment for up to ten years. In 1931 he became a student on the proletarian drama course run by the Tsukiji Little Theatre (築地小劇場: ''Tsukiji shogekijo''). He made his stage debut in the Tokyo Left-wing Theatre (東京左翼劇場: ''Tokyo sayoku gekijo'') production of ''The Mount Osore Tunnel'' (恐山トンネル: ''Osoreyama tonneru'') by Jūrō Miyoshi. Having completed the proletarian drama course, he joined the New Tsukiji Theatre Group and took the stage name Katsuji Honjō (本庄克二).
Career
Through the 1930s, Tōno appeared in almost all of the New Tsukiji Theatre Group's productions, receiving favourable reviews. In particular, his performances as Heizō in ''Earth'' (土: ''Tsuchi''), Yugorō in ''The Composition-writing Classroom'' (綴方教室: ''Tsuzurikata kyōshitsu'') and the Gravedigger in ''Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...
'' established his reputation as an actor. He also came to play an important part in the management of the troupe. In 1936, he made his film debut in ''Older Brother, Younger Sister'' (兄いもうと: ''Ani imōto''). In 1938 he appeared in Teinosuke Kinugasa
was a Japanese filmmaker and actor. His best-known films include the Silent film, silent Experimental film, avant-garde films ''A Page of Madness'' and ''Crossroads (1928 film), Crossroads'' and the Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning historic ...
's ''Kuroda seichū roku'' (黒田誠忠録)and subsequently had roles in pictures for the Shōchiku, Nikkatsu
is a Japanese film studio located in Bunkyō. The name ''Nikkatsu'' amalgamates the words Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Motion Pictures".
Shareholders are Nippon Television Holdings (35%) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (28.4%). ...
and Tōhō studios. Up to this point, he was credited under his stage name, 'Katsuji Honjō'.
In August 1940 the New Tsukiji Theatre Group was forcibly disbanded.[ From this time on, he was credited as 'Tōno Eijirō'. In 1943 he appeared in ]Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and ...
's debut film ''Port of Flowers'' (花咲く港: ''Hana saku minato''). In 1944 Tōno, Eitarō Ozawa, Koreya Senda, Sugisaku Aoyama, Chieko Higashiyama and others formed the Actors' Theatre ''Haiyuza''.[ During the last year of the ]Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theatre, was the Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies of World War II, Allies in East Asia, East and Southeast As ...
, he toured Japan under the auspices of the Japan Peripatetic Drama League (日本移動演劇連盟), an officially sponsored body whose remit was to raise morale, and therefore productivity, by bringing drama to factories, mines, farming communities and fishing villages.
After the war ended in August 1945, Tōno returned to the Actors' Theatre as one of its central figures, both actor and administrator. Between the end of the war and 1990 he also played supporting roles in well over 200 films. Notable among them were seven films for Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema ...
, including ''Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a villag ...
'' and ''Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamat ...
'', four for Yasujirō Ozu
was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.
The most pr ...
, including ''Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Upon release, it did not immediately gain international reco ...
'' and '' An Autumn Afternoon'', and nine for Keisuke Kinoshita, including ''Marriage'' (結婚: ''Kekkon'') and '' The Ballad of Narayama''.
He also voiced Doc in the 1958 Japanese dub of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually Magic (paranormal), magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklor ...
''.
The role for which he is perhaps best remembered in Japan, however, is that of the title character in the hugely popular TV jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "historical drama, period dramas", it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
''Jidaigeki'' show the lives of the samurai, farmers, crafts ...
'' Mito Kōmon'',[ in which the historical Tokugawa Mitsukuni, retired ]daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...
of the Mito Domain, roams the country in the guise of a retired merchant, Mitsuemon, righting wrongs and correcting injustice with the aid of two samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...
retainers. Tōno played the role in 381 episodes between 1969 and 1983. (The series continued through 2011, with four further actors playing Mitsuemon.)
Tōno died of heart failure on 8 September 1994, nine days before his 87th birthday.
Selected filmography
* ''Older Brother, Younger Sister'' (1936) as A laborer (uncredited)
* '' Port of Flowers'' (1943) as Hayashida
* ''Kaigun'' (1943)
* ''Kanko no machi'' (1944)
* ''Army
An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...
'' (1944) as Sakuragi
* ''Izu no musumetachi'' (1945) as Murakami
* ''Morning for the Osone Family'' (1946) as Ippei Yamaki
* ''Kekkon'' (1947) as Kōhei, Fumie's father
* ''Tsukinode no ketto'' (1947)
* '' Joyū Sumako no koi'' (1947) as Shoyo Tsubouchi
* ''Natsukashi no buruusu'' (1948)
* ''Jutai'' (1948)
* ''Taifuken no onna'' (1948) as Yoshii
* '' The Broken Commandment'' (1948)
* '' Waga Koi wa Moenu'' (1949) as State Councillor Ito
* ''Shin'ya no kokuhaku'' (1949)
* ''Mahiru no embukyoku'' (1949) as Sampei Kuribayashi
* '' Stray Dog'' (1949) as Old man of wooden tub shop
* ''Rinchi'' (1949)
* ''Ma no ogon'' (1950)
* ''Akagi Kara kita otoko'' (1950)
* '' Les Miserables'' (1950)
* ''Sasaki Kojiro'' (1950)
* ''Zoku Sasaki Kojiro'' (1951)
* '' Ginza Cosmetics'' (1951) as Hyôbei Sugano
* ''Jiyû gakkô'' (1951)
* ''Hopu-san: sararîman no maki'' (1951)
* ''Kanketsu Sasaki Kojirô: Ganryû-jima kettô'' (1951) as Jinnai Ôba
* ''Sekishun'' (1952) as Sakichi Arakawa
* ''Yamabiko gakkô'' (1952)
* ''Sengoku burai'' (1952)
* '' Children of Hiroshima'' (1952)
* ''Bijo to touzoku'' (1952) as Jurota
* ''Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete'' (1952)
* ''Himitsu'' (1952) as Jonosuke Tajima
* ''Fuun senryobune'' (1952)
* ''Jûdai no seiten'' (1953) as Tomekichi, Fusae's father
* ''Asama no karasu'' (1953) as Hyakusuke no Onoji
* ''Hiroba no kodoku'' (1953) as Soneda
* ''Hana no naka no musumetachi'' (1953) as Shôroku Ishii
* '' The Wild Geese'' (1953) as Suezô, the moneylender
* ''Waseda daigaku'' (1953) as Nomura
* ''Shishun no izumi'' (1953) as Nakamura, a policeman
* ''Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Upon release, it did not immediately gain international reco ...
'' (1953) as Sanpei Numata
* '' Life of a Woman'' (1953) as Kyuzaemon
* ''Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a villag ...
'' (1954) as Thief
* '' The Sound of Waves'' (1954) as Schoolmaster, a peddler
* ''Taiyo no nai machi'' (1954)
* ''Midori no nakama'' (1954) as Tamon Tsuburagi
* ''Nyonin no yakata'' (1954) as Inokawa
* ''Horafuki tanji'' (1954) as Policeman Iketani
* ''Kuroi ushio'' (1954)
* ''Kunsho'' (1954)
* ''Keisatsu nikki'' (1955)
* ''Koko ni izumi ari'' (1955)
* ''Ai no onimotsu'' (1955)
* ''Uruwashiki saigetsu'' (1955) as Imanishi's father
* ''Tasogare sakaba'' (1955) as Onizuka
* ''Wolf
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a Canis, canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus, subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, includin ...
'' (1955)
* '' Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple'' (1955) as Baiken Shishido
* ''Ukikusa nikki'' (1955)
* '' Record of a Living Being'' (1955) as Old man from Brazil
* ''Shuzenji Monagatari'' (1955) as Hōjō Tokimasa
was a Japanese samurai lord who was the first ''shikken'' (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. He was ''shikken'' from 1203 until his abdication in 1205, and Protector of Kyoto from 1185 to 1186.
Background
The Hō ...
* '' Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island'' (1956) as Baiken Shishido
* ''Hanayome no tameiki'' (1956) as Tahei Kawamura
* '' Early Spring'' (1956) as Tokichi Hattori
* ''Hakusen midare kurokami'' (1956)
* ''Kyûketsu-ga'' (1956) as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
* '' Farewell to Dream'' (1956) as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
* ''Hana no kyodai'' (1956)
* ''Byaku fujin no yoren'' (1956)
* ''Zenigata Heiji Torimono no Hikae: Hitohada Gumo'' (1956)
* ''Nonki fufu'' (1956)
* ''Mori wa ikiteiru'' (1956) as A waiting man
* ''Hadashi no seishun'' (1956) as Shiimbei Hayashi
* ''Anata kaimasu'' (1956) as Ogushi
* '' An Actress'' (1956) as Tadao Inoue
* ''Tsuyu no atosaki'' (1956)
* '' Night River'' (1956)
* ''Namida'' (1956)
* ''Kome'' (1957) as Sakuzo
* ''Ôban'' (1957) as Chaplin-San
* '' An Osaka Story'' (1957) as Ninpei Omiya
* ''Suzakumon'' (1957) as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
* ''Ninjitsu'' (1957) as Fugetsusai
* '' Untamed'' (1957)
* '' Snow Country'' (1957) as Keisuke Kiyama
* ''Hikage no musume'' (1957)
* ''Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen'' (1957) as Chaplin san
* ''The Lower Depths
''The Lower Depths'' (, literally: ''At the bottom'') is a play by Russian dramatist Maxim Gorky written in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It became his first ma ...
'' (1957) as Tomekichi the Tinker
* ''Jun'ai monogatari'' (1957) as Garbage man
* ''Kuroi kawa'' (1957) as Kurihara
* ''Dotanba'' (1957)
* ''Ninkyo shimisu-minato'' (1957) as Kansuke
* ''Boryoku no hatoba'' (1957)
* ''Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken'' (1958) as Fugetsusai
* ''Hotarubi'' (1958)
* ''Ankoru watto monogatari utsukushiki aishu'' (1958) as Chamberlain
* ''Yoru no tsuzumi'' (1958) as Mataemon Kurokawa
* '' The Ballad of Narayama'' (1958) as Messenger
* ''Kisetsufu no kanatani'' (1958)
* ''Oban kanketsu hen'' (1958)
* ''Wakai kemono'' (1958)
* ''Hitotsubu no mugi'' (1958)
* ''Zokuzoku sarariman shussetai kôki'' (1958)
* ''Kami no taisho'' (1958)
* ''Hadaka no taishô'' (1958) as Commander
* ''Jinsei gekijô - Seishun hen'' (1958)
* ''Shirasagi'' (1958)
* ''Akujo no kisetsu'' (1958) as Taisuke Yashiro
* ''Wakai kawa no nagare'' (1959) as Shôkichi Sone
* '' The Human Condition'' (1959)
* ''Dai san no shikaku'' (1959) as Kazuta Kubo
* '' Kiku to Isamu'' (1959) as Policeman
* ''Karatachi nikki'' (1959)
* '' Ohayo'' (aka ''Good Morning'') (1959) as Tomizawa
* ''High Teen'' (1959) as Tateishi, principal
* ''Yajû shisubeshi'' (1959) as Detective Kawashima
* ''Naniwa no koi no monogatari'' (1959)
* ''Mi wa jukushitari'' (1959) as Saemon, Hikari's father
* ''Ningen no kabe'' (1959)
* ''The Three Treasures
is a 1959 Japanese epic film, epic List of religious films, religious fantasy film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Toho as their celebratory thousandth film, it was the most expensive Japanese fil ...
'' (1959) as Ootomo
* ''Futô no nâwabarî'' (1959)
* ''Shin santô jûyaku: Tabi to onna to sake no maki'' (1960)
* ''Ôinaru tabiji'' (1960)
* ''Chinpindô shujin'' (1960)
* ''Kunisada Chûji'' (1960) as Kansuke
* ''Ajisai no uta'' (1960) as Genjûrô Kurata
* ''Sake to onna to yari'' (1960) as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
* ''Shin santo juyaku: teishu kyo iku no maki'' (1960)
* ''Kenka Tarô'' (1960) as Kitaura
* '' The Twilight Story'' (1960) as Teacher Yamai
* ''Ashita hareru ka'' (1960) as Seisaku Kajiwara
* ''Sararîman Chûshingura'' (1960) as Gonosuke Kira
* ''Ore no kokyô wa western'' (1960) as Ôkawa
* ''Tekkaba no kazê'' (1960)
* ''Botchan yaro seizoroi'' (1961)
* '' Pigs and Battleships'' (1961) as Kan'ichi
* ''Zoku sararîman Chûshingura'' (1961) as Gonosuke Kira
* ''Eddoko bugyo tenka o kiru otoko'' (1961)
* ''Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamat ...
'' (1961) as Gonji - Tavern Keeper
* ''Tôshi reijô'' (1961) as Ginroku
* ''Ai to honoho to'' (1961) as Kudo
* ''The Littlest Warrior'' (1961) as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
* ''Kako'' (1961)
* ''Akai kôya'' (1961) as Shinzô Okui
* '' Immortal Love'' (1961) as Policeman
* ''Sekai daisensô'' (1961)
* ''Dôdôtaru jinsei'' (1961) as Daisaku Hara
* ''Buda'' (1961) as Suratha
* ''Hadakakko'' (1961) as Shohei, Akiko's father
* ''Kanpai! Gokigen yarou'' (1961)
* ''Taiheî hara no otoko'' (1961)
* ''Salary man Shimizu minato'' (1962) as Komazô Kuroda
* ''Zoku sararîman shimizu minato'' (1962)
* ''Watakushi-tachi no kekkon'' (1962)
* ''Musume to watashi'' (1962) as Grandfather
* ''Seinen no isu'' (1962) as Genjûrô Hatada
* ''Kyûpora no aru machi'' (1962) as Tatsugorô Ishiguro (Jun's father)
* ''Shachô yôkôki'' (1962)
* ''Nakayama shichiri'' (1962)
* ''Chiisakobe'' (1962) as Ikichi
* '' Akitsu Springs'' (1962) as Priest
* ''Ao beka monogatari'' (1962) as Grandpa Yoshi
* ''Shin no shikôtei'' (1962) as Li Tang
* '' An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962) as Seitarō Sakuma, "The Gourd"
* ''Kawa no hotori de'' (1962) as Tôgo Sawada
* ''Akai kage-bôshi'' (1962) as Jinzaburô Kamo
* ''Sen-hime to Hideyori'' (1962) as Tokugawa Ieyasu
* ''Hakone-yama'' (1962)
* '' Twin Sisters of Kyoto'' (1963) as Sosuke Otomo
* '' High and Low'' (1963) as factory worker
* ''Shiro to kuro'' (1963)
* ''Shitamachi no taiyô'' (1963) as Gensuke
* ''Kono kubi ichimangoku'' (1963) as Tenzen Ôshikôchi
* '' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963) as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
* ''Jinsei gekijo: zoku hisha kaku'' (1963)
* ''Kekkonshiki Kekkonshiki'' (1963) as Gorô
* ''Otoko no monshô'' (1963)
* ''Zoku shinobi no mono'' (1963) as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
* ''Kaigun'' (1963)
* ''Eden no umi'' (1963)
* ''Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin'' (1963)
* ''Gobanchô yûgirirô'' (1963) as Kunigi
* '' The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman'' (1963) as Meiji, his father
* ''Tange Sazen: zankoku no kawa'' (1963)
* ''Shin shinobi no mono'' (1963)
* ''Ukyonosuke Junsatsu-ki'' (1963)
* ''Hachigatsu umare no Onna'' (1963)
* ''Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô'' (1964) as Haiya
* '' Pale Flower'' (1964) as Gang Leader
* ''Hanayome wa jûgo sai'' (1964)
* ''Kizudarake no sanga'' (1964) as Shinzo Kozuki
* ''Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu'' (1964) as Endô
* ''Hadaka no jûyaku'' (1964) as Kosugi, president
* ''Horafuki taikôki'' (1964) as Koroku Hachisuka
* ''Otoko no monshô - fuun futatsu ryu'' (1964)
* ''Kûroi daîsu ga ore o yobû'' (1964)
* ''Dokonjô monogatari: Zuputo iyatsu'' (1964)
* ''Baka ga tanku de yatte kuru'' (1964)
* ''Aa, seishun no mune no chi wa'' (1964) as Sôtarô Shimizu
* ''Shachô ninpôchô'' (1965)
* '' Samurai Assassin'' (1965) as Masagorô Kisoya
* '' Red Beard'' (1965) as Goheiji
* ''Nippon ichi no goma suri otoko'' (1965)
* ''Muhômatsu no isshô'' (1965) as Jûzô Yûki
* '' Illusion of Blood'' (1965) as Priest
* '' Sword of the Beast'' (1965) as Minister
* ''Abashiri bangaichi: Bôkyô hen'' (1965)
* ''Akutô'' (1965) as Commentator
* ''Uzushio'' (1965)
* ''Supai'' (1965)
* '' An Innocent Witch'' (1965) as Mountain shaman
* ''Iki-ni kanzu'' (1965)
* ''Shachô gyôjôki'' (1966)
* ''Tobenai chinmoku'' (1966)
* ''Yojôhan monogatari: Shôfu Shino'' (1966) as Uyû
* ''Izuko e'' (1966)
* ''Yoidore hakase'' (1966) as Marshal
* '' Lost Sex'' (1966) as Neighbor / Writer
* '' The Great White Tower'' (1966) as Professor Azuma (the first surgery dept)
* ''Yorû no bara o kesê'' (1966)
* ''Zatôichi tekka tabi'' (1967) as Senzo
* ''Kitaguni no ryojô'' (1967) as Kichinosuke Kawara
* '' Lost Spring'' (1967) as Soga
* ''Kureji no Kaitô Jibako'' (1967)
* ''Zoku ô-oku maruhi monogatari'' (1967) as Narrator (voice)
* ''Moero! Taiyô'' (1967)
* ''Waka oyabun senryû-hada'' (1967)
* ''Nippon ichi no otoko no naka no otoko'' (1967) as Gonosuke Okanda
* ''Kamo to negi'' (1968) as Shigejiro Ohno
* ''Teppô denraiki'' (1968) as Kinbei Yaita
* '' Kill!'' (1968) as Hyogo Moriuchi
* '' The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun'' (1968) as Ganko, the blacksmith (voice)
* ''Âh himeyuri no tô'' (1968) as Nakaji, Principal
* ''Moero! Seishun'' (1968) as Zenkichi Misawa
* ''Otoko no chosen'' (1968)
* ''Fukushû no uta ga kikoeru'' (1968)
* ''Kureji no buchamukure daihakken'' (1969) as Onikuma
* ''Shachô enmachô'' (1969)
* ''Tirania'' (1969)
* ''Zoku shachô enmachô'' (1969)
* ''Zoku otoko wa tsurai yo'' (1969) as Sanpo Sensei
* ''Shachô gaku ABC'' (1970)
* ''Zoku shachô gaku ABC'' (1970)
* '' Fuji sanchō'' (1970)
* '' Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970) as Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
* ''Tenkan no abarembo'' (1970)
* ''Shokon ichidai tenka no abarenbo'' (1970)
* ''Showa hito keta shachô tai futaketa shain'' (1971)
* ''Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen'' (1971)
* ''Zoku Showa hito keta shachō tai futaketa shain: Getsu-getsu kasui moku kinkin'' (1971)
* ''Gokumon-to'' (1977) as Kaemon Kitō - Yosamatsu's Father
* '' Mito Komon'' (1978) as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
* ''Hunter in the Dark'' (1979) as Shogen
* ''Eireitachi no oenka: saigo no sōkeisen'' (1979)
* '' Izakaya Chōji'' (1983) as Matukawa
* ''So What'' (1988)
* '' Death of a Tea Master'' (1989) as Kokei
* ''Harasu no ita hibi'' (1989)
* '' Ageman'' (1990) as Prime Minister
Honours
* Medal with Purple Ribbon (1975)
* Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1982)
References
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Japanese male film actors
1907 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Japanese male actors
Actors from Gunma Prefecture
People from Tomioka, Gunma
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class