Cast
Eijirō Tōno
Acting
Cast
Eijirō Tōno
Known for
Acting
Born
1907-09-17
From
Tomioka, Japon
Died
1994-09-08
Also known as Tōno Eijirō, Эйдзиро Тоно, 东野英治郎
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).
★8.4
MOVIE1954
Seven Samurai
as Kidnapper
★8.4
MOVIE1963
High and Low
as Factory Worker
★8.2
MOVIE1953
Tokyo Story
as Numata
★8.1
MOVIE1961
Yojimbo
as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
★7.5
MOVIE1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Yoshii
★7.1
MOVIE1955
Burden of Love
as Jozo Araki
MOVIE1961
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
★7.0
MOVIE1988
So What
★7.2
MOVIE1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Beauty and the Thief
as Jurota
★6.5
MOVIE1954
The Cock Crows Twice
MOVIE1966
Dynamite Doctor
as Marshal
★7.2
MOVIE1965
An Innocent Witch
★5.4
MOVIE1949
Flame of My Love
as State Councillor Itô
★10.0
MOVIE1954
The Black Current
★5.9
MOVIE1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Policeman
MOVIE1950
A Man from Akagi
★8.2
MOVIE1965
Red Beard
as Goheiji
★6.6
MOVIE1961
An Edo Magistrate
★6.7
MOVIE1961
The Red Shadow
as Jinzaburô Kamo
MOVIE1956
Flowery Brothers
MOVIE1970
Will to Conquer
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Diary of Forsaken Love
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Days of Evil Women
★8.1
MOVIE1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
MOVIE1966
Kill the Night Rose
★7.3
MOVIE1955
I Live in Fear
as Old man from Brazil
★7.8
MOVIE1971
The Battle of Okinawa
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Naked General
★7.7
MOVIE1959
Good Morning
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
★6.4
MOVIE1968
Horus: Prince of the Sun
as Ganko (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Young Beast
MOVIE1952
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
★6.3
MOVIE1961
The Orphan Brother
as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
MOVIE1957
Turtledove
★6.0
MOVIE1957
An Osaka Story
as Gonzaemon Hoshino
★7.6
MOVIE1949
Stray Dog
MOVIE1952
The Yamabiko School
★7.8
MOVIE1983
Choji Snack Bar
★6.1
MOVIE1956
The Legend of the White Serpent
★7.5
MOVIE1958
The Ballad of Narayama
as Messenger
★7.9
MOVIE1962
An Autumn Afternoon
as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
★6.2
MOVIE1977
Island of Hell
as Kaemon Kito
MOVIE1961
Sanctuary
★7.5
MOVIE1969
Goyokin
MOVIE1949
Rinchi
MOVIE1960
The Brawler
as Section Chief Kitaura
★9.0
MOVIE1967
Goal for the Young
★7.2
MOVIE1964
A Story from Echigo
★8.0
MOVIE1968
The Flame of Youth
★7.3
MOVIE1965
Samurai Assassin
as Masagorō Kisoya
★10.0
MOVIE1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
★9.0
MOVIE1966
Lost Sex
as Neighbor / Writer
★7.7
MOVIE1947
Marriage
as Fumie's father
★8.0
MOVIE1969
Crazy Big Discovery
★6.9
MOVIE1960
The Gambling Samurai
as Kansuke
MOVIE1960
Just Barely
★5.4
MOVIE1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Fugetsusai
MOVIE1947
Duel at Moonrise
★7.4
MOVIE1964
Pale Flower
as Yasuoka
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
★6.0
MOVIE1951
Sasaki Kojiro
★4.5
MOVIE1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Narrator
★7.1
MOVIE1961
Pigs and Battleships
as Kan'ichi
★7.2
MOVIE1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Mount Hakone
★6.2
MOVIE1990
Tales of a Golden Geisha
as Prime Minister
★7.5
MOVIE1957
Untamed Woman
as Oshima's father
MOVIE1955
Murder on the Last Train
★6.3
MOVIE1979
Hunter in the Dark
as Shogen
MOVIE1953
Waseda University
as Guest Nomura
★8.3
MOVIE1965
The Last Judgment
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Himitsu
MOVIE1946
Kigeki wa owarinu
★6.4
MOVIE1963
A House in the Quarter
★7.4
MOVIE1961
Immortal Love
as Policeman
MOVIE1959
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
★7.0
MOVIE1968
Kill!
as Hyogo Moriuchi
★6.4
MOVIE1965
Illusion of Blood
MOVIE1958
Princess of Revenge
★5.5
MOVIE1959
The Three Treasures
as Ootomo
★7.5
MOVIE1956
Early Spring
as Tokichi Hattori
★6.8
MOVIE1961
The Last War
as Captain Umehara
★7.2
MOVIE1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Baiken Shishido
★7.0
MOVIE1967
The Burning Sun
MOVIE1984
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
★7.0
MOVIE1962
The Great Wall
as Li Tang
★7.5
MOVIE1965
Sword of the Beast
as Minister
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Ginza Cosmetics
as Hyôbei Sugano
★7.1
MOVIE1952
Children of Hiroshima
★6.9
MOVIE1966
The Great White Tower
as Professor Teizō Azuma
★6.8
MOVIE1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
★6.9
MOVIE1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
MOVIE1960
The Forbidden Scoop
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Shishun no izumi
as Nakamura, a policeman
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Fugetsusai
★4.7
MOVIE1956
The Vampire Moth
as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
★5.6
MOVIE1989
Death of a Tea Master
as Kokei
★7.0
MOVIE1957
The Lower Depths
as Tomekichi the Tinker
★7.4
MOVIE1957
The Eleventh Hour
★6.8
MOVIE1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as Sanpo Sensei
★7.0
MOVIE1964
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
as Haiya
★7.4
MOVIE1967
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
as Senzo
★10.0
MOVIE1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
★6.8
MOVIE1957
The Story of Pure Love
★6.7
MOVIE1953
The Wild Geese
as Suezo
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Naked Sun
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Love on Rainbow Island
as Shiimbei Hayashi
★6.9
MOVIE1957
Black River
as Kurihara
★5.7
MOVIE1963
The Sunshine Girl
★6.0
MOVIE1960
The Master Spearman
★9.0
MOVIE1967
Industrial Spy Free-for-All
★6.5
MOVIE1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as Sosuke Otomo
MOVIE1953
The Tattoo Murder Case
★6.8
MOVIE1944
Army
as Sakuragi
★6.9
MOVIE1966
Silence Has No Wings
★7.1
MOVIE1962
Our Marriage
as Father
★7.5
MOVIE1965
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
as Seizo
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Beautiful Days
as Imanishi's Father
MOVIE1966
Four and A Half Mats
as Uyu
MOVIE1970
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
★6.0
MOVIE1968
Song of Vengeance
as 看守Ａ
★6.3
MOVIE1960
The Man of Seven Faces
as Genkichi Miyashita
★6.0
MOVIE1948
Apostasy
MOVIE1956
Tears
MOVIE1964
The Bride is Fifteen
★6.6
MOVIE1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Priest
★8.0
MOVIE1960
The Great Road
★8.2
MOVIE1955
Here Is a Spring
★7.8
MOVIE1962
Foundry Town
as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
★6.9
MOVIE1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
★7.0
MOVIE1966
A Company President's Life Story
as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
MOVIE1964
白さぎと少年
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1954
The Street Without Sun
as President Kunio
★8.0
MOVIE1967
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
as Mouri
MOVIE1960
The Cards Will Tell
★6.2
MOVIE1963
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as Akiharu
MOVIE1957
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
★7.5
MOVIE1963
Pressure of Guilt
MOVIE1960
Wait for Tomorrow
as Seisaku Kajiwara
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
as Chamberlain
MOVIE1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Twilight Saloon
as Onizuka
★9.0
MOVIE1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Buddha
as Suratha
★6.1
MOVIE1944
Jubilation Street
as Shingo’s father
★10.0
MOVIE1950
Devil's Gold
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
as Takeyunosuke Gōji
★5.9
MOVIE1958
Night Drum
MOVIE1958
A Grain of Wheat
as Aisawa
★8.2
MOVIE1963
Life of Hishakaku 2
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Port of Flowers
as Hayashida
MOVIE1963
Double Wedding
as Goro
MOVIE1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
MOVIE1944
Sinking the Unsinkable
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Rice
★6.3
MOVIE1959
The Human Wall
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Morning for the Osone Family
as Ippei Yamaka
★9.0
MOVIE1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
★7.0
MOVIE1971
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
as Keinosuke Takamatsu
MOVIE1956
How Sorrowful
★6.8
MOVIE1983
I Lived, But...
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE1960
The Twilight Story
★10.0
MOVIE1968
Monument to the Girl's Corps
as Nakaji, Principal
MOVIE1954
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
★7.5
MOVIE1962
A Carpenter and Children
★6.2
MOVIE1956
Undercurrent
as Yujiro Funaki
★10.0
MOVIE1960
The Masterless 47
as Gonosuke Kira
MOVIE1960
Police Precinct Part 13
MOVIE1947
Rira no hana wasureji
★7.1
MOVIE1956
I Will Buy You
as Ogushi
MOVIE1960
The War Without Weapons
★6.7
MOVIE1952
Sword for Hire
★8.0
MOVIE1954
The Surf
as Schoolmaster
★9.0
MOVIE1967
Three Faces of Love
as Soga
MOVIE1965
Salaryman's Medal
★8.0
MOVIE1964
The Sandal Keeper
MOVIE1959
The Third Dead Angle
★10.0
MOVIE1959
Ripe and Marriageable
as Saemon, Hikari's father
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Lady Sen and Hideyori
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
★7.0
MOVIE1964
A Public Benefactor
★7.0
MOVIE1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
MOVIE1961
Botchan yarō seizoroi
MOVIE1983
Adrift at Sea
★5.2
MOVIE1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
MOVIE1956
The Forest Is Alive
★10.0
MOVIE1971
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
★7.1
MOVIE1956
Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
★6.0
MOVIE1963
Fight of the Gamblers
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Actress
MOVIE1957
Hateful Things
as Keisuke kiyama
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Fine Man
★6.2
MOVIE1959
The Beast Shall Die
as Detective Kuwashima
★7.0
MOVIE1969
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
★9.0
MOVIE1958
Firefly Light
MOVIE1964
Eddy Currents of Life
as Shigesuke Hayashi
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Theater of Life
★9.0
MOVIE1952
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
★8.3
MOVIE1961
Run, Genta, Run!
★9.0
MOVIE1959
The Bride from Japan
as Mieko's father
★9.0
MOVIE1961
Challenge to Live
★6.9
MOVIE1955
The Wolves
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Shimizu Port Salaryman
MOVIE1956
Asashio yushio
MOVIE1961
Wind and waves of the South
as Genji
★10.0
MOVIE1962
Musume to watashi
★8.0
MOVIE1957
The Shadow Daughter
MOVIE1956
White Fan
as Takuetsu
★8.0
MOVIE1960
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Policeman's Diary
as Old man Murata
MOVIE1961
The Crimson Plains
as Shinzô Okui
★7.0
MOVIE1962
This Madding Crowd
as Grandpa Yoshi
MOVIE1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Kozo Kawai
★8.0
MOVIE1960
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Isuke Tsujikura
MOVIE1962
Season of Farewell
★8.0
MOVIE1967
Monsieur Zivaco
MOVIE1962
Seinen no isu
★7.0
MOVIE1965
Start Here
as President Sagara
★8.0
MOVIE1962
The Man From the Sea
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Women's House
★5.5
MOVIE1968
The Saga of Tanegashima
as Kinbei Yaita
MOVIE1959
High Teen
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Chaplin san
MOVIE1967
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
★9.0
MOVIE1970
Five Gents and a Kuniang
as Gōji Keinosuke
MOVIE1953
Hiroba no kōdoku
MOVIE1966
Dash to the Sun
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Navy
as Teacher Ogata
MOVIE1959
Akatsuki no chiheisen
MOVIE1967
Journey to the North
as Kichinosuke Kawara
MOVIE1948
As If To Kill
MOVIE1959
Police Precinct: Car 108
MOVIE1961
Boss Takes to the Road
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Ôban
as Chaplin-San
MOVIE1963
The Navy
MOVIE1962
The Bandits
MOVIE1965
Blood and Sea
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Freedom School
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
★8.7
MOVIE1963
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
★9.0
MOVIE1963
Tange Sazen
MOVIE1964
Our Happiness Alone
★9.0
MOVIE1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
★10.0
MOVIE1965
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
★10.0
MOVIE1965
The Spy
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
★9.0
MOVIE1964
The Naked Executive
as Kosugi, president
★10.0
MOVIE1965
Life of Matsu the Untamed
MOVIE1961
For This We Fight
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
as Kansuke
★8.0
MOVIE1945
The Young Women of Izu
★8.0
MOVIE1963
The Sea of Eden
★7.6
MOVIE1960
The Pirates
MOVIE1982
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
★4.3
MOVIE1955
Floating Weeds Diary
as Magoro Ichikawa
MOVIE1989
Days with Harasu
MOVIE1954
The Glorious Days
★9.0
MOVIE1967
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
MOVIE1967
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
MOVIE1951
風雲児
MOVIE1951
Yasubei Nakayama
MOVIE1962
Facing to the Clouds
MOVIE1951
The Man from the Moon
MOVIE1961
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Girls in the Orchard
MOVIE1959
The Stream of Youth
MOVIE1981
The King and His Vassal
MOVIE1963
Girls Born in August
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Born in Sin
MOVIE1961
The Estuary
MOVIE1945
Otome no iru kichi
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Jūdai no seiten
★7.0
MOVIE1964
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
MOVIE1960
Ajisai no uta
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Late Night Confession
★5.8
MOVIE1984
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
as Narration (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1979
The Last Game
MOVIE1959
Kaze no uchi so to
MOVIE1952
Farewell to Spring
as Sakichi Arakawa
★9.0
MOVIE1968
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
MOVIE1958
Oban kanketsu hen
★9.8
MOVIE1978
Lord Mito
as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
★7.0
MOVIE1950