
Eijirō Tōno
Acting
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).

Tales of a Golden Geisha
Prime Minister

Days with Harasu

Death of a Tea Master
Kokei

So What
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
Narration (voice)

Adrift at Sea

Choji Snack Bar

I Lived, But...
Self

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

The King and His Vassal

The Last Game

Hunter in the Dark
Shogen

Lord Mito
Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Island of Hell
Kaemon Kito

First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President

The Battle of Okinawa

First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
Keinosuke Takamatsu

Will to Conquer

Five Gents and a Kuniang
Gōji Keinosuke

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Chuici Nagumo

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Takeyunosuke Gōji

Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Sanpo Sensei

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)

Goyokin

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)

Crazy Big Discovery

Monument to the Girl's Corps
Nakaji, Principal

Song of Vengeance
看守A

Horus: Prince of the Sun
Ganko (voice)

Kill!
Hyogo Moriuchi

The Saga of Tanegashima
Kinbei Yaita

Wild Ducks and Green Onions

Japan's No. 1 Best Man

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh

Shogun and His Mistress 2
Narrator

Monsieur Zivaco

Goal for the Young

Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!

Industrial Spy Free-for-All

Three Faces of Love
Soga

Journey to the North
Kichinosuke Kawara

Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Senzo

The Great White Tower

Dash to the Sun

Lost Sex
Neighbor / Writer

Kill the Night Rose

Dynamite Doctor
Marshal

Four and A Half Mats
Uyu

Silence Has No Wings

A Company President's Life Story
Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Seizo

An Innocent Witch

Blood and Sea

Sword of the Beast
Minister

The Spy

Illusion of Blood

Life of Matsu the Untamed

Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man

The Last Judgment

Start Here
President Sagara

Red Beard
Goheiji

Salaryman's Medal

Five Gents' Trick Book

Samurai Assassin
Masagorō Kisoya

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Eddy Currents of Life
Shigesuke Hayashi

The Sandal Keeper

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

The Naked Executive
Kosugi, president

A Story from Echigo

A Public Benefactor

Our Happiness Alone

The Bride is Fifteen

Pale Flower
Yasuoka

白さぎと少年
Narrator (voice)

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Haiya

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

Fight of the Gamblers

Ukyunosuke on Patrol

Tange Sazen

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Akiharu

A House in the Quarter

The Sea of Eden

The Navy

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Double Wedding
Goro

Life of Hishakaku 2

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

The Sunshine Girl

High and Low
Factory Worker

Girls Born in August

Pressure of Guilt

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Sosuke Otomo

Born in Sin

An Autumn Afternoon
Sakuma, The 'Gourd'

The Great Wall
Li Tang

Mount Hakone
The Man From the Sea

This Madding Crowd
Grandpa Yoshi

Akitsu Hot Springs
Priest

A Carpenter and Children

The Bandits

Facing to the Clouds

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

Foundry Town
Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)

Seinen no isu

Musume to watashi

Lady Sen and Hideyori
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Our Marriage
Father

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

Season of Farewell

Shimizu Port Salaryman

The Red Shadow
Jinzaburô Kamo
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

Run, Genta, Run!

Wind and waves of the South
Genji

Buddha
Suratha

The Last War
Captain Umehara

Boss Takes to the Road

Immortal Love
Policeman

The Crimson Plains
Shinzô Okui

The Estuary

The Orphan Brother
Sanshô Dayû (voice)

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

Challenge to Live

Fine Man

Yojimbo
Gonji, Tavern Keeper

An Edo Magistrate

The Masterless 47 – Part II

Pigs and Battleships
Kan'ichi

For This We Fight

Botchan yarō seizoroi

My Hometown is the Wild West

The Masterless 47
Gonosuke Kira

The War Without Weapons

Wait for Tomorrow
Seisaku Kajiwara

The Pirates

The Twilight Story

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Isuke Tsujikura

Police Precinct Part 13

The Master Spearman

The Man of Seven Faces
Genkichi Miyashita

Ajisai no uta

The Gambling Samurai
Kansuke

The Great Road

The Forbidden Scoop

The Cards Will Tell

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Isuke Tsujikura (President)

The Bride from Japan
Mieko's father

The Three Treasures
Ootomo

The Human Wall

Akatsuki no chiheisen

Ripe and Marriageable
Saemon, Hikari's father

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

The Beast Shall Die
Detective Kuwashima

Police Precinct: Car 108

High Teen

Good Morning
Hiroshi Tomizawa

Diary of Forsaken Love

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Policeman

Kaze no uchi so to

The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight

The Third Dead Angle

The Stream of Youth

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

The Days of Evil Women

Theater of Life

The Naked General

The Naked Sun

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
Mouri

A Grain of Wheat
Aisawa

The Young Beast

Oban kanketsu hen

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

The Ballad of Narayama
Messenger

Night Drum

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Chamberlain

Firefly Light

Princess of Revenge

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Fugetsusai

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

The Eleventh Hour

Black River
Kurihara

The Story of Pure Love

The Lower Depths
Tomekichi the Tinker

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Chaplin san

The Shadow Daughter

Hateful Things
Keisuke kiyama

Untamed Woman
Oshima's father

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Fugetsusai

An Osaka Story
Gonzaemon Hoshino

Ôban
Chaplin-San

Rice

Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Kansuke

Actress

I Will Buy You
Ogushi

Love on Rainbow Island
Shiimbei Hayashi

The Forest Is Alive

Tears

Undercurrent
Yujiro Funaki
How Sorrowful
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin

The Legend of the White Serpent

Flowery Brothers

Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's father, Genkichi

The Vampire Moth
Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
White Fan
Takuetsu

Early Spring
Tokichi Hattori

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Baiken Shishido (uncredited)

I Live in Fear
Old man from Brazil

Floating Weeds Diary
Magoro Ichikawa

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Baiken Shishido

The Wolves
Murder on the Last Train

Twilight Saloon
Onizuka

Beautiful Days
Imanishi's Father

Burden of Love
Jozo Araki

Here Is a Spring

Policeman's Diary
Old man Murata

The Cock Crows Twice

Women's House

The Surf
Schoolmaster

The Black Current

The Street Without Sun
President Kunio

Seven Samurai
Kidnapper

The Glorious Days

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls

Tokyo Story
Numata

Girls in the Orchard

The Wild Geese
Suezo

Hiroba no kōdoku

Shishun no izumi
Nakamura, a policeman

Jūdai no seiten

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
Himitsu

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Kozo Kawai

Beauty and the Thief
Jurota

Children of Hiroshima

Sword for Hire

The Yamabiko School

Farewell to Spring
Sakichi Arakawa

The Man from the Moon

Sasaki Kojiro

風雲児

Freedom School

Ginza Cosmetics
Hyôbei Sugano

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

Yasubei Nakayama

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

A Man from Akagi

Heat and Mud

Devil's Gold

Rinchi

Stray Dog
Late Night Confession

Flame of My Love
State Councillor Itô

Apostasy

A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Yoshii

Rira no hana wasureji

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Marriage
Fumie's father

Morning for the Osone Family
Ippei Yamaka
Kigeki wa owarinu

Izu no musumetachi

Otome no iru kichi

Army
Sakuragi

Jubilation Street
Shingo’s father

Sinking the Unsinkable

Navy
Teacher Ogata

Port of Flowers
Hayashida







