CHISHŪ RYŪ

ACTING
Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu.
From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974).
- The Longest Tunnel 1982
- Red Beard 1965
- Late Spring 1949
- Early Spring 1956
- Late Autumn 1960
- The Bad Sleep Well 1960
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
- There Was a Father 1942
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961
- Equinox Flower 1958
- Good Morning 1959
- The End of Summer 1961
- Street Without End 1934
- The Funeral 1984
- Dolls floating down the river 1962
- Twenty-Four Eyes 1954
- The Rickshaw Man 1958
- Japan's Longest Day 1967
- Floating Weeds 1959
- The Soundless Cry 1965
- Tokyo Story 1953
- That Night's Wife 1930
- An Autumn Afternoon 1962
- Early Summer 1951
- The Only Son 1936
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1947
- Tokyo Twilight 1957
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice 1952
- The Munekata Sisters 1950
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 1941
- The Last War 1961
- The Human Bullet 1968
- Carmen Comes Home 1951
- Battle of the Japan Sea 1969
- Woman of Tokyo 1933
- Boyhood 1951
- Ornamental Hairpin 1941
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum 1955
- Youth of the Son 1952
- Passing Fancy 1933
- A Mother Should Be Loved 1934
- Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset 1976
- Tora-san's Grand Scheme 1970
- Army 1944
- Home from the Sea 1972
- Luminous Moss 1992
- Sailor 1944
- Children in the Wind 1937
- Tora-san Goes Religious? 1983
- The Eternal Rainbow 1958
- Tora-san's Dear Old Home 1972
- Tora-san's Love Call 1971
- Love Under the Crucifix 1962
- Where Spring Comes Late 1970
- Tora-san's Lovesick 1974
- The Wandering Princess 1960
- The Moon Has Risen 1955
- Tora-san's Lullaby 1974
- Tora-san, the Intellectual 1975
- Tora-san's Pure Love 1976
- Tora-san Meets His Lordship 1977
- All is Well 1955
- Tora-san Plays Cupid 1977
- Satan's Sword 1960
- Home Sweet Home 1951
- Tora-san, My Uncle 1989
- Port of Flowers 1943
- Stage-Struck Tora-san 1978
- I Flunked, But... 1930
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? 1932
- Dragnet Girl 1933
- Talk of the Town Tora-san 1978
- Dreams 1990
- It's Tough Being a Man 1969
- Tora-san, the Matchmaker 1979
- The Lady and the Beard 1931
- The Crowded Train 1957
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother 1960
- The Castle of Sand 1974
- Until the End of the World 1991
- Fireworks Over the Sea 1951
- The Good Fairy 1951
- Farewell to Spring 1959
- The Wiser Age 1962
- A Story of Floating Weeds 1934
- An Inn in Tokyo 1935
- Tora-san's Forget Me Not 1973
- Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial 1988
- Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy 1986
- Tora-san Plays Daddy 1987
- Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san 1982
- Tora-san's Love in Osaka 1981
- Tora-san's Promise 1981
- Tora-san, the Go-Between 1985
- Tora-san, the Expert 1982
- Tora-san's Island Encounter 1985
- Tora-san's Song of Love 1983
- Foster Daddy, Tora! 1980
- Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii 1964
- Days of Youth 1929
- Miyamoto Musashi 1973
- Tora-san's Forbidden Love 1984
- The Face 1957
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever 1980
- I Want to Be a Shellfish 1959
- College Is a Nice Place 1936
- Tora-san's Cherished Mother 1969
- Tora-san, His Tender Love 1970
- Marriage Counselor Tora-san 1984
- Introspection Tower 1941
- Tora-san's Runaway 1970
- A Hen in the Wind 1948
- A Taxing Woman's Return 1988
- The Four Loves 1965
- Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again 1975
- A Brother and His Younger Sister 1939
- Storm on the Silvery Peaks 1960
- Tora-san's Dream-Come-True 1972
- Tora-san, the Good Samaritan 1971
- Tora-san's Shattered Romance 1971
- Tora-san Goes North 1987
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna 1989
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black 1959
- Tamayura 1965