
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). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Hi no kuni ni
TV • 1976

Tamayura
TV • 1965

The Roads Men Travel
TV • 1976

Good Morning
MOVIE • 1959

There Was a Father
MOVIE • 1942

Tokyo Story
MOVIE • 1953

Dreams
MOVIE • 1990

Red Beard
MOVIE • 1965

Zoku zoku jiken
TV • 1980

Haguregumo
TV • 1978

The Bad Sleep Well
MOVIE • 1960

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
MOVIE • 1985

An Autumn Afternoon
MOVIE • 1962

The Castle of Sand
MOVIE • 1974

An Early Autumn
TV • 1987

The Lonely Scalpel
TV • 1969

A-Un
TV • 1980

The Funeral
MOVIE • 1984