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