Eijirō Tōno
Acting
Born September 17, 1907, Tomioka, Japon
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).
Filmography
- 1990Tales of a Golden Geisha — Prime Minister
- 1989Days with Harasu
- 1989Death of a Tea Master — Kokei
- 1988So What
- 1984Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo- — Narration (voice)
- 1984The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1983Adrift at Sea
- 1983Choji Snack Bar
- 1982The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
- 1981The King and His Vassal
- 1979Hunter in the Dark — Shogen
- 1979The Last Game
- 1978Lord Mito — Tokugawa Mitsukuni
- 1977Island of Hell — Kaemon Kito
- 1971First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri — Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
- 1971First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff — Keinosuke Takamatsu
- 1971The Battle of Okinawa — Yoshijirō Umezu
- 水戸黄門 第3部
- 1970Five Gents Fly to Taiwan — Takeyunosuke Gōji
- 1970Five Gents and a Kuniang — Gōji Keinosuke
- 1970The Summit of Mt. Fuji
- 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! — Admiral Chuici Nagumo
- 1970Will to Conquer — Sezaemon
- 水戸黄門 第2部
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu — Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
- 19695 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II — Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
- 1969Crazy Big Discovery
- 1969Goyokin
- 1969Tora-san's Cherished Mother — Sanpo Sensei
- 水戸黄門 第１部
- 1968Horus: Prince of the Sun — Ganko (voice)
- It's Tough Being a Man
- 1968It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
- 1968Kill! — Hyogo Moriuchi
- 1968Monument to the Girl's Corps — Nakaji, Principal
- 1968Song of Vengeance — 看守Ａ
- 1968The Flame of Youth
- 1968The Saga of Tanegashima — Kinbei Yaita
- 1968Wild Ducks and Green Onions
- 1967Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
- 1967Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
- 1967Goal for the Young
- 1967Industrial Spy Free-for-All
- 1967Japan's No. 1 Best Man
- 1967Journey to the North — Kichinosuke Kawara
- 1967Monsieur Zivaco
- 1967Shogun and His Mistress 2 — Narrator
- 1967The Burning Sun
- 1967Three Faces of Love — Soga
- 1967Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
- 1967Zatoichi's Cane Sword — Senzo
- 1966A Company President's Life Story — Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
- 1966Dash to the Sun
- 1966Dynamite Doctor — Marshal
- 1966Four and A Half Mats — Uyu
- 1966Kill the Night Rose
- 1966Lost Sex — Neighbor / Writer
- 1966Silence Has No Wings
- 1966The Great White Tower — Professor Teizō Azuma
- 1965An Innocent Witch
- 1965Blood and Sea
- 1965Five Gents' Trick Book
- 1965Illusion of Blood
- 1965Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
- 1965Life of Matsu the Untamed
- 1965Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 — Seizo
- 1965Red Beard — Goheiji
- 1965Salaryman's Medal
- 1965Samurai Assassin — Masagorō Kisoya
- 1965Start Here — President Sagara
- 1965Sword of the Beast — Minister
- 1965The Last Judgment
- 1965The Spy
- 1964A Public Benefactor
- 1964A Story from Echigo
- 1964Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
- 1964Eddy Currents of Life — Shigesuke Hayashi
- 1964Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple — Haiya
- 1964Modern Gentleman
- 1964Our Happiness Alone
- 1964Pale Flower — Yasuoka
- 1964The Bride is Fifteen
- 1964The Donkey Comes on a Tank
- 1964The Naked Executive — Kosugi, president
- 1964The Sandal Keeper
- 1964白さぎと少年 — Narrator (voice)
- 1963A House in the Quarter
- 1963Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai — Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
- 1963Double Wedding — Goro
- 1963Fight of the Gamblers
- 1963Girls Born in August
- 1963High and Low — Factory Worker
- 1963Life of Hishakaku 2
- 1963Pressure of Guilt
- 1963Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1963Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection — Hideyoshi Toyotomi
- 1963Tange Sazen
- 1963The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman — Akiharu
- 1963The Navy
- 1963The Sea of Eden
- 1963The Sunshine Girl
- 1963Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
- 1963Twin Sisters of Kyoto — Sosuke Otomo
- 1963Ukyunosuke on Patrol
- 1962A Carpenter and Children
- 1962Akitsu Hot Springs — Priest
- 1962An Autumn Afternoon — Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- 1962Born in Sin
- 1962Facing to the Clouds
- 1962Foundry Town — Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
- 1962Lady Sen and Hideyori — Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1962Mount Hakone
- 1962Musume to watashi
- 1962Our Marriage — Father
- 1962Season of Farewell
- 1962Seinen no isu
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman
- 1962Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- 1962The Bandits
- 1962The Great Wall — Li Tang
- 1962The Man From the Sea
- 1962This Madding Crowd — Grandpa Yoshi
- 1962Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- 1961An Edo Magistrate
- 1961Boss Takes to the Road
- 1961Botchan yarō seizoroi
- 1961Buddha — Suratha
- 1961Challenge to Live
- 1961Fine Man
- 1961For This We Fight
- 1961Immortal Love — Policeman
- 1961Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
- 1961Pigs and Battleships — Kan'ichi
- 1961Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- 1961Run, Genta, Run!
- 1961Sanctuary
- 1961The Crimson Plains — Shinzô Okui
- 1961The Estuary
- 1961The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
- 1961The Last War — Captain Umehara
- 1961The Masterless 47 – Part II
- 1961The Orphan Brother — Sanshô Dayû (voice)
- 1961The Red Shadow — Jinzaburô Kamo
- 1961Wind and waves of the South — Genji
- 1961Yojimbo — Gonji, Tavern Keeper
- 1960Ajisai no uta
- 1960Just Barely
- 1960My Hometown is the Wild West
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Husband Education — Isuke Tsujikura
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking — Isuke Tsujikura (President)
- 1960Police Precinct Part 13
- 1960The Brass General
- 1960The Brawler — Section Chief Kitaura
- 1960The Cards Will Tell
- 1960The Curio Master
- 1960The Forbidden Scoop
- 1960The Gambling Samurai — Kansuke
- 1960The Great Road
- 1960The Man of Seven Faces — Genkichi Miyashita
- 1960The Master Spearman
- 1960The Masterless 47 — Gonosuke Kira
- 1960The Pirates
- 1960The Twilight Story
- 1960The War Without Weapons — Kamematsu Yamamoto, Senji's father
- 1960Wait for Tomorrow — Seisaku Kajiwara
- 1959Akatsuki no chiheisen
- 1959Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
- 1959Diary of Forsaken Love
- 1959Good Morning — Hiroshi Tomizawa
- 1959High Teen
- 1959Kaze no uchi so to
- 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan — Policeman
- 1959Police Precinct: Car 108
- 1959Ripe and Marriageable — Saemon, Hikari's father
- 1959The Beast Shall Die — Detective Kuwashima
- 1959The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
- 1959The Bride from Japan — Mieko's father
- 1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- 1959The Human Wall
- 1959The Stream of Youth
- 1959The Third Dead Angle
- 1959The Three Treasures — Ootomo
- 1958A Grain of Wheat — Aisawa
- 1958Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness — Chamberlain
- 1958Beyond the Seasonal Wind
- 1958Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3 — Mouri
- 1958Firefly Light
- 1958Handcuffs
- 1958Night Drum
- 1958Oban kanketsu hen
- 1958Princess of Revenge
- 1958The Ballad of Narayama — Messenger
- 1958The Days of Evil Women
- 1958The Naked General
- 1958The Naked Sun — Yoshida
- 1958The Young Beast
- 1958Theater of Life
- 1958Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II — Fugetsusai
- 1958Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1957An Osaka Story — Gonzaemon Hoshino
- 1957Black River — Kurihara
- 1957Hateful Things — Keisuke Kiyama
- 1957Love of the Princess
- 1957Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
- 1957Rice
- 1957Shimizu Port of Chivalry — Kansuke
- 1957The Eleventh Hour
- 1957The Lower Depths — Tomekichi the Tinker
- 1957The Shadow Daughter — Shigeo
- 1957The Story of Pure Love
- 1957Turtledove
- 1957Untamed Woman — Oshima's father
- 1957Yagyu Secret Scrolls — Fugetsusai
- 1957Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen — Chaplin san
- 1957Ôban — Chaplin-San
- 1956Actress
- 1956Asashio yushio
- 1956Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
- 1956Early Spring — Tokichi Hattori
- 1956Easy-Going Married Couple
- 1956Farewell to Dream — Yôichi's father, Genkichi
- 1956Flowery Brothers
- 1956Hanayome no tameiki
- 1956How Sorrowful
- 1956I Will Buy You — Ogushi
- 1956Love on Rainbow Island — Shiimbei Hayashi
- 1956Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island — Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
- 1956Tears
- 1956The Forest Is Alive
- 1956The Legend of the White Serpent
- 1956The Vampire Moth — Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
- 1956Undercurrent — Yujiro Funaki
- 1956White Fan — Takuetsu
- 1955Beautiful Days — Imanishi's Father
- 1955Burden of Love — Jozo Araki
- 1955Floating Weeds Diary — Magoro Ichikawa
- 1955Here Is a Spring
- 1955I Live in Fear — Old man from Brazil
- 1955Love at Forty
- 1955Murder on the Last Train
- 1955Policeman's Diary — Old man Murata
- 1955Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple — Baiken Shishido
- 1955The Wolves
- 1955Twilight Saloon — Onizuka
- 1954Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
- 1954Midori no nakama
- 1954Seven Samurai — Kidnapper
- 1954The Black Current
- 1954The Cock Crows Twice
- 1954The Glorious Days
- 1954The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
- 1954The Street Without Sun — President Kunio
- 1954The Surf — Schoolmaster
- 1954Woman of Fire
- 1954Women's House
- 1953Asama no karasu
- 1953Girls in the Orchard
- 1953Hiroba no kōdoku
- 1953Jūdai no seiten
- 1953Shishun no izumi — Nakamura, a policeman
- 1953The Tattoo Murder Case
- 1953The Wild Geese — Suezo
- 1953Tokyo Story — Numata
- 1953Waseda University — Guest Nomura
- 1952Beauty and the Thief — Jurota
- 1952Children of Hiroshima
- 1952Farewell to Spring — Sakichi Arakawa
- 1952Her Secret
- 1952Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- 1952Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete — Kozo Kawai
- 1952One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- 1952Sword for Hire
- 1952The Yamabiko School
- 1951Freedom School
- 1951Ginza Cosmetics — Hyôbei Sugano
- 1951Sasaki Kojiro
- 1951The Man from the Moon
- 1951Yasubei Nakayama
- 1951Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
- 1951風雲児
- 1950A Man from Akagi
- 1950Devil's Gold
- 1950Heat and Mud
- 1950Kazanmyaku
- 1950Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
- 1950Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
- 1949Chobei the Rogue
- 1949Flame of My Love — State Councillor Itô
- 1949Late Night Confession
- 1949Rinchi
- 1949Stray Dog
- 1948A Woman in the Typhoon Area — Yoshii
- 1948Apostasy
- 1948As If To Kill
- 1947Duel at Moonrise
- 1947Marriage — Fumie's father
- 1947Rira no hana wasureji
- 1947The Love of the Actress Sumako
- 1946Kigeki wa owarinu
- 1946Morning for the Osone Family — Ippei Yamaka
- 1945Otome no iru kichi
- 1945The Young Women of Izu
- 1944Army — Sakuragi
- 1944Jubilation Street — Shingo’s father
- 1944Sinking the Unsinkable
- 1943Navy — Teacher Ogata
- 1943Port of Flowers — Hayashida
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 1983I Lived, But... — Self