Eijirō Tōno
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).
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990 · Prime Minister

Days with Harasu
1989

Death of a Tea Master
1989 · Kokei

So What
1988
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
1984 · Narration (voice)

The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984

Adrift at Sea
1983

Choji Snack Bar
1983

I Lived, But...
1983 · Self

The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1982

The King and His Vassal
1981

The Last Game
1979

Hunter in the Dark
1979 · Shogen

Lord Mito
1978 · Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Island of Hell
1977 · Kaemon Kito

First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
1971 · Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President

The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · Yoshijirō Umezu

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
1971 · Keinosuke Takamatsu

Will to Conquer
1970 · Sezaemon

The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970

Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970 · Gōji Keinosuke

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Admiral Chuici Nagumo

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970 · Takeyunosuke Gōji

Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · Sanpo Sensei

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969 · Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)

Goyokin
1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969 · Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)

Crazy Big Discovery
1969

The Flame of Youth
1968

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968

Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968 · Nakaji, Principal

Song of Vengeance
1968 · 看守A

Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968 · Ganko (voice)

Kill!
1968 · Hyogo Moriuchi

The Saga of Tanegashima
1968 · Kinbei Yaita

Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968

Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967

The Burning Sun
1967

Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967 · Narrator

Monsieur Zivaco
1967

Goal for the Young
1967

Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
1967

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
1967

Three Faces of Love
1967 · Soga

Industrial Spy Free-for-All
1967

Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967 · Senzo

Journey to the North
1967 · Kichinosuke Kawara

The Great White Tower
1966 · Professor Teizō Azuma

Dash to the Sun
1966

Lost Sex
1966 · Neighbor / Writer

Kill the Night Rose
1966

Dynamite Doctor
1966 · Marshal

Four and A Half Mats
1966 · Uyu

Silence Has No Wings
1966

A Company President's Life Story
1966 · Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965 · Seizo

An Innocent Witch
1965

Blood and Sea
1965

Sword of the Beast
1965 · Minister

The Spy
1965

Illusion of Blood
1965

Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965

Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965

The Last Judgment
1965

Start Here
1965 · President Sagara

Red Beard
1965 · Goheiji

Salaryman's Medal
1965

Samurai Assassin
1965 · Masagorō Kisoya

Five Gents' Trick Book
1965

The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964

Eddy Currents of Life
1964 · Shigesuke Hayashi

Modern Gentleman
1964

The Sandal Keeper
1964

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964

The Naked Executive
1964 · Kosugi, president

A Story from Echigo
1964

A Public Benefactor
1964

Our Happiness Alone
1964

The Bride is Fifteen
1964

Pale Flower
1964 · Yasuoka

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964 · Haiya

白さぎと少年
1964 · Narrator (voice)

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963 · Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Fight of the Gamblers
1963

Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963

Tange Sazen
1963

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963 · Akiharu

A House in the Quarter
1963

The Sea of Eden
1963

The Navy
1963

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963 · Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Double Wedding
1963 · Goro

Life of Hishakaku 2
1963

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963 · Shibiku-Shosuke Hori

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963

The Sunshine Girl
1963

High and Low
1963 · Factory Worker

Girls Born in August
1963

Pressure of Guilt
1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963 · Sosuke Otomo

Born in Sin
1962

An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Sakuma, The 'Gourd'

The Great Wall
1962 · Li Tang

Mount Hakone
1962
The Man From the Sea
1962

This Madding Crowd
1962 · Grandpa Yoshi

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962 · Priest

A Carpenter and Children
1962

The Bandits
1962

Facing to the Clouds
1962

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962

Seinen no isu
1962

Foundry Town
1962 · Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)

Musume to watashi
1962

Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962 · Tokugawa Ieyasu

Our Marriage
1962 · Father

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962

Season of Farewell
1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962

The Red Shadow
1961 · Jinzaburô Kamo

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961

Run, Genta, Run!
1961

Wind and waves of the South
1961 · Genji

Buddha
1961 · Suratha

The Last War
1961 · Captain Umehara

Sanctuary
1961

Boss Takes to the Road
1961

Immortal Love
1961 · Policeman

The Crimson Plains
1961 · Shinzô Okui

The Estuary
1961

The Orphan Brother
1961 · Sanshô Dayû (voice)

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961

Challenge to Live
1961

Yoru wa ijiwaru
1961

Fine Man
1961

Tōshi reijō
1961

Yojimbo
1961 · Gonji, Tavern Keeper

An Edo Magistrate
1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961

Pigs and Battleships
1961 · Kan'ichi

For This We Fight
1961

Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961

My Hometown is the Wild West
1960

The Masterless 47
1960 · Gonosuke Kira

The War Without Weapons
1960 · Kamematsu Yamamoto, Senji's father

Wait for Tomorrow
1960 · Seisaku Kajiwara

The Pirates
1960

The Brass General
1960

The Twilight Story
1960

The Brawler
1960 · Section Chief Kitaura

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960 · Isuke Tsujikura

Police Precinct Part 13
1960

Just Barely
1960

The Master Spearman
1960

The Man of Seven Faces
1960 · Genkichi Miyashita

Ajisai no uta
1960

The Gambling Samurai
1960 · Kansuke

The Curio Master
1960

The Great Road
1960

The Forbidden Scoop
1960

The Cards Will Tell
1960

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960 · Isuke Tsujikura (President)

The Bride from Japan
1959 · Mieko's father

The Three Treasures
1959 · Ootomo

The Human Wall
1959

Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959

Ripe and Marriageable
1959 · Saemon, Hikari's father

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959

Police Precinct: Car 108
1959

The Beast Shall Die
1959 · Detective Kuwashima

High Teen
1959

Good Morning
1959 · Hiroshi Tomizawa

Diary of Forsaken Love
1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959 · Policeman

Kaze no uchi so to
1959

The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959

The Third Dead Angle
1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959

The Stream of Youth
1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958

The Days of Evil Women
1958

Theater of Life
1958

The Naked General
1958

The Naked Sun
1958 · Yoshida

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958 · Mouri

A Grain of Wheat
1958 · Aisawa

The Young Beast
1958

Oban kanketsu hen
1958

Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958 · Principal Saiki

The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · Messenger

Night Drum
1958

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958 · Chamberlain

Firefly Light
1958

Handcuffs
1958

Princess of Revenge
1958

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958 · Fugetsusai

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957

The Eleventh Hour
1957

Black River
1957 · Kurihara

The Story of Pure Love
1957

The Lower Depths
1957 · Tomekichi the Tinker

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957 · Chaplin san

The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Shigeo

Untamed Woman
1957 · Oshima's father

Hateful Things
1957 · Keisuke Kiyama

Turtledove
1957

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957 · Fugetsusai

Love of the Princess
1957

An Osaka Story
1957 · Gonzaemon Hoshino

Ôban
1957 · Chaplin-San

Rice
1957

Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1957 · Kansuke

Actress
1956

I Will Buy You
1956 · Ogushi

Love on Rainbow Island
1956 · Shiimbei Hayashi

The Forest Is Alive
1956

Easy-Going Married Couple
1956

Tears
1956

Undercurrent
1956 · Yujiro Funaki
How Sorrowful
1956
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956

Asashio yushio
1956

The Legend of the White Serpent
1956

Flowery Brothers
1956

Farewell to Dream
1956 · Yôichi's father, Genkichi

Vampire Moth
1956 · Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
White Fan
1956 · Takuetsu

Early Spring
1956 · Tokichi Hattori

Hanayome no tameiki
1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956 · Baiken Shishido (uncredited)

Love at Forty
1955

I Live in Fear
1955 · Old man from Brazil

Floating Weeds Diary
1955 · Magoro Ichikawa

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955 · Baiken Shishido

The Wolves
1955
Murder on the Last Train
1955

Twilight Saloon
1955 · Onizuka

Beautiful Days
1955 · Imanishi's Father

Burden of Love
1955 · Jozo Araki

Here Is a Spring
1955

Policeman's Diary
1955 · Old man Murata

The Cock Crows Twice
1954

Women's House
1954

The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
1954

The Surf
1954 · Schoolmaster

Woman of Fire
1954

The Black Current
1954

Green Friends
1954

The Street Without Sun
1954 · President Kunio

Seven Samurai
1954 · Kidnapper

The Glorious Days
1954

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954

Tokyo Story
1953 · Numata

Waseda University
1953 · Guest Nomura

Hiroba no kōdoku
1953

The Wild Geese
1953 · Suezo

Girls in the Orchard
1953

Shishun no izumi
1953 · Nakamura, a policeman

The Tattoo Murder Case
1953

Asama no karasu
1953

Jūdai no seiten
1953

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952

Her Secret
1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952 · Kozo Kawai

Beauty and the Thief
1952 · Jurota

Children of Hiroshima
1952

Sword for Hire
1952

The Yamabiko School
1952

Farewell to Spring
1952 · Sakichi Arakawa

The Man from the Moon
1951

Sasaki Kojiro
1951

風雲児
1951

Freedom School
1951

Ginza Cosmetics
1951 · Hyôbei Sugano

Yasubei Nakayama
1951

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950

A Man from Akagi
1950

Heat and Mud
1950

Kazanmyaku
1950

Devil's Gold
1950

Rinchi
1949
Chobei the Rogue
1949

Stray Dog
1949
Late Night Confession
1949

Flame of My Love
1949 · State Councillor Itô

Apostasy
1948

A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948 · Yoshii

As If To Kill
1948

Rira no hana wasureji
1947

The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947

Duel at Moonrise
1947

Marriage
1947 · Fumie's father

Morning for the Osone Family
1946 · Ippei Yamaka
Kigeki wa owarinu
1946

The Young Women of Izu
1945

Otome no iru kichi
1945

Army
1944 · Sakuragi

Jubilation Street
1944 · Shingo’s father

Sinking the Unsinkable
1944

Navy
1943 · Teacher Ogata

Port of Flowers
1943 · Hayashida







