Eijirō Tōno

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

High and Low

Yojimbo

Tokyo Story

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Red Beard

Stray Dog

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

All Movies (286)

• Tales of a Golden Geisha1990 · as Prime Minister
• Days with Harasu1989
• Death of a Tea Master1989 · as Kokei
• So What1988
• Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-1984 · as Narration (voice)
• The Fox Dancing in the Dusk1984
• Adrift at Sea1983
• Choji Snack Bar1983
• I Lived, But...1983 · as Self
• The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo1982
• The King and His Vassal1981
• The Last Game1979
• Hunter in the Dark1979 · as Shogen
• Lord Mito1978 · as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
• Island of Hell1977 · as Kaemon Kito
• First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri1971 · as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
• The Battle of Okinawa1971
• First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff1971 · as Keinosuke Takamatsu
• Will to Conquer1970
• The Summit of Mt. Fuji1970
• Five Gents and a Kuniang1970 · as Gōji Keinosuke
• Tora! Tora! Tora!1970 · as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
• Five Gents Fly to Taiwan1970 · as Takeyunosuke Gōji
• Tora-san's Cherished Mother1969 · as Sanpo Sensei
• 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II1969 · as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
• Goyokin1969
• 5 Gents Fly to Kyushu1969 · as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
• Crazy Big Discovery1969
• The Burning Sun1968
• The Flame of Youth1968
• Monument to the Girl's Corps1968 · as Nakaji, Principal
• Song of Vengeance1968 · as 看守Ａ
• Horus: Prince of the Sun1968 · as Ganko (voice)
• Kill!1968 · as Hyogo Moriuchi
• The Saga of Tanegashima1968 · as Kinbei Yaita
• Wild Ducks and Green Onions1968
• Japan's No. 1 Best Man1967
• Young Boss: Leader's Flesh1967
• Shogun and His Mistress 21967 · as Narrator
• Monsieur Zivaco1967
• Goal for the Young1967
• Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!1967
• Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!1967
• Three Faces of Love1967 · as Soga
• Industrial Spy Free-for-All1967
• Zatoichi's Cane Sword1967 · as Senzo
• Journey to the North1967 · as Kichinosuke Kawara
• The Great White Tower1966 · as Professor Teizō Azuma
• Dash to the Sun1966
• Lost Sex1966 · as Neighbor / Writer
• Kill the Night Rose1966
• Dynamite Doctor1966 · as Marshal
• Four and A Half Mats1966 · as Uyu
• Silence Has No Wings1966
• A Company President's Life Story1966 · as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
• Prison Walls of Abashiri 31965 · as Seizo
• An Innocent Witch1965
• Blood and Sea1965
• Sword of the Beast1965 · as Minister
• The Spy1965
• Illusion of Blood1965
• Life of Matsu the Untamed1965
• Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man1965
• The Last Judgment1965
• Start Here1965 · as President Sagara
• Red Beard1965 · as Goheiji
• Salaryman's Medal1965
• Samurai Assassin1965 · as Masagorō Kisoya
• Five Gents' Trick Book1965
• The Donkey Comes on a Tank1964
• Eddy Currents of Life1964 · as Shigesuke Hayashi
• The Sandal Keeper1964
• Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa1964
• The Naked Executive1964 · as Kosugi, president
• A Story from Echigo1964
• A Public Benefactor1964
• Our Happiness Alone1964
• The Bride is Fifteen1964
• Pale Flower1964 · as Yasuoka
• Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple1964 · as Haiya
• 白さぎと少年1964 · as Narrator (voice)
• Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection1963 · as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• Fight of the Gamblers1963
• Ukyunosuke on Patrol1963
• Tange Sazen1963
• The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman1963 · as Akiharu
• A House in the Quarter1963
• The Sea of Eden1963
• The Navy1963
• Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance1963 · as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Double Wedding1963 · as Goro
• Life of Hishakaku 21963
• Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai1963 · as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
• Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai1963
• The Sunshine Girl1963
• High and Low1963 · as Factory Worker
• Girls Born in August1963
• Pressure of Guilt1963
• Twin Sisters of Kyoto1963 · as Sosuke Otomo
• Born in Sin1962
• An Autumn Afternoon1962 · as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
• The Great Wall1962 · as Li Tang
• Mount Hakone1962
• The Man From the Sea1962
• This Madding Crowd1962 · as Grandpa Yoshi
• Akitsu Hot Springs1962 · as Priest
• A Carpenter and Children1962
• The Bandits1962
• Facing to the Clouds1962
• Three Gentlemen from Tokyo1962
• Seinen no isu1962
• Foundry Town1962 · as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
• Musume to watashi1962
• Lady Sen and Hideyori1962 · as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Our Marriage1962 · as Father
• Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II1962
• Season of Farewell1962
• Shimizu Port Salaryman1962
• The Red Shadow1961 · as Jinzaburô Kamo
• Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains1961
• The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy1961
• Run, Genta, Run!1961
• Wind and waves of the South1961 · as Genji
• Buddha1961 · as Suratha
• The Last War1961 · as Captain Umehara
• Sanctuary1961
• Boss Takes to the Road1961
• Immortal Love1961 · as Policeman
• The Crimson Plains1961 · as Shinzô Okui
• The Estuary1961
• The Orphan Brother1961 · as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
• Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region1961
• Challenge to Live1961
• Fine Man1961
• Yojimbo1961 · as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
• An Edo Magistrate1961
• The Masterless 47 – Part II1961
• Pigs and Battleships1961 · as Kan'ichi
• For This We Fight1961
• Botchan yarō seizoroi1961
• My Hometown is the Wild West1960
• The Masterless 471960 · as Gonosuke Kira
• The War Without Weapons1960
• Wait for Tomorrow1960 · as Seisaku Kajiwara
• The Pirates1960
• The Twilight Story1960
• The Brawler1960 · as Section Chief Kitaura
• New Third Class Executive: Husband Education1960 · as Isuke Tsujikura
• Police Precinct Part 131960
• Just Barely1960
• The Master Spearman1960
• The Man of Seven Faces1960 · as Genkichi Miyashita
• Ajisai no uta1960
• The Gambling Samurai1960 · as Kansuke
• The Great Road1960
• The Forbidden Scoop1960
• The Cards Will Tell1960
• New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking1960 · as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
• The Bride from Japan1959 · as Mieko's father
• The Three Treasures1959 · as Ootomo
• The Human Wall1959
• Akatsuki no chiheisen1959
• Ripe and Marriageable1959 · as Saemon, Hikari's father
• Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka1959
• Police Precinct: Car 1081959
• The Beast Shall Die1959 · as Detective Kuwashima
• High Teen1959
• Good Morning1959 · as Hiroshi Tomizawa
• Diary of Forsaken Love1959
• Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan1959 · as Policeman
• Kaze no uchi so to1959
• The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight1959
• The Third Dead Angle1959
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959
• The Stream of Youth1959
• Yajikita dōchū sugoroku1958
• The Days of Evil Women1958
• Theater of Life1958
• The Naked General1958
• The Naked Sun1958
• Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 31958 · as Mouri
• A Grain of Wheat1958 · as Aisawa
• The Young Beast1958
• Oban kanketsu hen1958
• Beyond the Seasonal Wind1958
• The Ballad of Narayama1958 · as Messenger
• Night Drum1958
• Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness1958 · as Chamberlain
• Firefly Light1958
• Princess of Revenge1958
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II1958 · as Fugetsusai
• Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer1957
• The Eleventh Hour1957
• Black River1957 · as Kurihara
• The Story of Pure Love1957
• The Lower Depths1957 · as Tomekichi the Tinker
• Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen1957 · as Chaplin san
• The Shadow Daughter1957
• Untamed Woman1957 · as Oshima's father
• Hateful Things1957 · as Keisuke kiyama
• Turtledove1957
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls1957 · as Fugetsusai
• An Osaka Story1957 · as Gonzaemon Hoshino
• Ôban1957 · as Chaplin-San
• Rice1957
• Shimizu Port of Chivalry1957 · as Kansuke
• Actress1956
• I Will Buy You1956 · as Ogushi
• Love on Rainbow Island1956 · as Shiimbei Hayashi
• The Forest Is Alive1956
• Tears1956
• Undercurrent1956 · as Yujiro Funaki
• How Sorrowful1956
• Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin1956
• The Legend of the White Serpent1956
• Flowery Brothers1956
• Farewell to Dream1956 · as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
• The Vampire Moth1956 · as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
• White Fan1956 · as Takuetsu
• Early Spring1956 · as Tokichi Hattori
• Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island1956 · as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
• I Live in Fear1955 · as Old man from Brazil
• Floating Weeds Diary1955 · as Magoro Ichikawa
• Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple1955 · as Baiken Shishido
• The Wolves1955
• Murder on the Last Train1955
• Twilight Saloon1955 · as Onizuka
• Beautiful Days1955 · as Imanishi's Father
• Burden of Love1955 · as Jozo Araki
• Here Is a Spring1955
• Policeman's Diary1955 · as Old man Murata
• The Cock Crows Twice1954
• Women's House1954
• The Surf1954 · as Schoolmaster
• The Black Current1954
• The Street Without Sun1954 · as President Kunio
• Seven Samurai1954 · as Kidnapper
• The Glorious Days1954
• Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls1954
• Tokyo Story1953 · as Numata
• Waseda University1953 · as Guest Nomura
• Hiroba no kōdoku1953
• The Wild Geese1953 · as Suezo
• Girls in the Orchard1953
• Shishun no izumi1953 · as Nakamura, a policeman
• Jūdai no seiten1953
• One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds1952
• Himitsu1952
• Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu1952
• Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete1952 · as Kozo Kawai
• Beauty and the Thief1952 · as Jurota
• Children of Hiroshima1952
• Sword for Hire1952
• The Yamabiko School1952
• Farewell to Spring1952 · as Sakichi Arakawa
• The Man from the Moon1951
• Sasaki Kojiro1951
• 風雲児1951
• Freedom School1951
• Ginza Cosmetics1951 · as Hyôbei Sugano
• Yasubei Nakayama1951
• Zoku Sasaki Kojiro1951
• Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom1950
• Les Miserables I: God and the Devil1950
• A Man from Akagi1950
• Heat and Mud1950
• Devil's Gold1950
• Rinchi1949
• Stray Dog1949
• Late Night Confession1949
• Flame of My Love1949 · as State Councillor Itô
• Apostasy1948
• A Woman in the Typhoon Area1948 · as Yoshii
• Rira no hana wasureji1947
• The Love of the Actress Sumako1947
• Duel at Moonrise1947
• Marriage1947 · as Fumie's father
• Morning for the Osone Family1946 · as Ippei Yamaka
• Kigeki wa owarinu1946
• The Young Women of Izu1945
• Otome no iru kichi1945
• Army1944 · as Sakuragi
• Jubilation Street1944 · as Shingo’s father
• Sinking the Unsinkable1944
• Navy1943 · as Teacher Ogata
• Port of Flowers1943 · as Hayashida

All TV Shows (3)

• 水戸黄門 第3部1971
• 水戸黄門　第2部1970
• 水戸黄門　第１部1969