
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).
Acting (257 movies)

Seven Samurai
1954

Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967

Red Beard
1965

Early Spring
1956

Stray Dog
1949

I Live in Fear
1955

Pigs and Battleships
1961

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959

Yojimbo
1961

The Lower Depths
1957

Death of a Tea Master
1989

High and Low
1963

Heat and Mud
1950

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952

Good Morning
1959

Rinchi
1949

Untamed Woman
1957

Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962

Pale Flower
1964

Yasubei Nakayama
1951

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962

Beauty and the Thief
1952

Farewell to Spring
1952

Hunter in the Dark
1979

Musume to watashi
1962

Kill!
1968

Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962

Sword of the Beast
1965

Seinen no isu
1962

Tokyo Story
1953

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963

Foundry Town
1962

A Man from Akagi
1950

The Great Wall
1962

Hiroba no kōdoku
1953

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951

Dynamite Doctor
1966

Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968

Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963

The Estuary
1961

Sasaki Kojiro
1951

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963

The Naked Executive
1964

Children of Hiroshima
1952

Facing to the Clouds
1962

Oban kanketsu hen
1958

Ôban
1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957

The Bride from Japan
1959

Samurai Assassin
1965

The Last War
1961

Black River
1957

Flame of My Love
1949

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957

I Will Buy You
1956

Morning for the Osone Family
1946

Twilight Saloon
1955

The Wild Geese
1953

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958

Farewell to Dream
1956

The King and His Vassal
1981

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

Blood and Sea
1965

Police Precinct: Car 108
1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958

Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko
1961

The Great White Tower
1966

Days with Harasu
1989

The Masterless 47
1960

Navy
1943

The Crimson Plains
1961

Dash to the Sun
1966

The Forest Is Alive
1956

Kaze no uchi so to
1959

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950

Port of Flowers
1943

Freedom School
1951

Journey to the North
1967

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

Mount Hakone
1962

Jūdai no seiten
1953

風雲児
1951

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962

An Edo Magistrate
1961

My Hometown is the Wild West
1960

The Battle of Okinawa
1971

Song of Vengeance
1968

Will to Conquer
1970

Four and A Half Mats
1966

Ginza Cosmetics
1951

Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968

Buddha
1961

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952

A Carpenter and Children
1962

Undercurrent
1956

Here Is a Spring
1955
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