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.
294 movies · 10 shows
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997·8.5
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992·8.0
Luminous Moss
1992·6.2
Tora-san Confesses
1991·8.3
Until the End of the World
1991·6.7
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990·7.0
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990·7.7
Making of 'Dreams'
1990·8.0
Dreams
1990·7.7
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989·8.2
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989·8.7
Until Spring Comes
1989·0.0
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988·8.3
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988·6.4
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
1988·7.0
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987·8.3
Tora-san Goes North
1987·9.0
Crybaby Chacha
1987·0.0
Carefree Goddesses
1987·7.0
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986·7.3
The Greatest Man in the World
1986·10.0
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986·6.6
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985·8.3
And Then
1985·7.1
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985·7.8
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985·6.9
Tokyo-Ga
1985·7.1
When Winter Comes
1985·0.0
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984·8.0
The Funeral
1984·7.1
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984·8.0
Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!
1984·0.0
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983·7.7
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983·5.2
I Lived, But...
1983·6.8
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983·8.3
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
1983·7.0
Tora-san, the Expert
1982·8.7
When We are Old
1982·0.0
The Longest Tunnel
1982·10.0
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982·8.0
Tora-san's Promise
1981·8.7
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981·9.0
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980·8.0
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980·8.3
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979·8.2
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979·8.7
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978·8.0
Monument to Holy Service
1978·8.0
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978·8.2
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977·8.0
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977·8.8
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976·9.2
Oretachi no toki
1976·0.0
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976·8.8
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975·8.2
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975·8.2
Kyukei no Koya
1975·0.0
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974·7.8
The Castle of Sand
1974·7.4
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974·8.0
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974·0.0
Machi no Hi
1974·8.0
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973·8.4
Miyamoto Musashi
1973·7.3
Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro
1973·0.0
Flower and Dragon
1973·10.0
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973·8.4
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972·8.3
Home from the Sea
1972·7.2
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972·8.3
Tora-san's Love Call
1971·8.4
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971·8.0
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
1971·0.0
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971·7.7
High-School Outcasts
1970·7.0
The Last Kamikaze
1970·7.0
Where Spring Comes Late
1970·7.7
Tora-san's Runaway
1970·8.0
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970·7.7
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970·7.4
Fight for the Glory
1969·9.0
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969·6.8
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969·7.9
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969·6.4
Through Days and Months
1969·8.0
Scrap Collectors
1968·8.0
The Human Bullet
1968·6.0
Traveling in Party
1967·6.0
Japan's Longest Day
1967·7.3
The Black Sheep
1967·0.0
Oyuki
1966·0.0
Come Marry Me
1966·7.0
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966·0.0
Warm Current
1966·0.0
The Four Loves
1965·0.0
Red Beard
1965·8.2
The Soundless Cry
1965·9.0
The Radish and the Carrot
1965·9.0
Gazing at Love and Death
1964·7.0
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
1964·5.3
I'm a Bodyguard
1964·8.0
Blue Eyed Bride
1964·0.0
Dislikes
1964·0.0
Monrō no yōna onna
1964·0.0
Tange Sazen
1963·9.0
A Million Girls
1963·5.0
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1963·9.0
Double Wedding
1963·0.0
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963·0.0
Futari dake no toride
1963·9.0
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963·0.0
Sakiko-san chotto
1963·0.0
An Autumn Afternoon
1962·7.9
Zoku aizen katsura
1962·0.0
Four Sisters
1962·6.0
Yoru no keisha
1962·0.0
Love Under the Crucifix
1962·7.1
Flower in a Storm
1962·0.0
Dolls floating down the river
1962·0.0
Drunkard's Paradise
1962·0.0
The Wiser Age
1962·7.2
Bandits on the Wind
1961·9.0
Student Executive
1961·0.0
The End of Summer
1961·7.5
The Last War
1961·6.8
The Youth and His Amulet
1961·9.0
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961·0.0
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
1961·0.0
Door of Flowers
1961·0.0
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961·8.4
Late Autumn
1960·7.7
Satan's Sword
1960·6.6
Master Fencer Sees the World
1960·9.0
Internees of Kampili
1960·0.0
The Bad Sleep Well
1960·7.7
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960·0.0
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: A Wife's Virginal Face
1960·0.0
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960·7.3
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960·0.0
Only She Knows
1960·0.0
The Wandering Princess
1960·6.7
Spring Dreams
1960·6.0
Floating Weeds
1959·7.5
Love in the Mountains
1959·0.0
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959·10.0
The White Road Across the River
1959·0.0
Good Morning
1959·7.7
Farewell to Spring
1959·6.3
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959·10.0
Bridge
1959·0.0
The Path Under the Platanes
1959·7.0
The Snow Flurry
1959·6.9
The Eternal Rainbow
1958·7.3
The College Hero
1958·8.0
Equinox Flower
1958·7.4
The Rickshaw Man
1958·7.2
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958·0.0
White Blaze
1958·0.0
Hearts A-Flutter
1957·0.0
The Last Escape
1957·0.0
Tokyo Twilight
1957·7.7
The Crowded Train
1957·6.8
The Face
1957·0.0
Flying in the Air
1957·10.0
Pure Love
1956·0.0
The Storm
1956·8.5
The Wicked Boy
1956·0.0
The Invisible 108th Unit
1956·0.0
Early Spring
1956·7.5
Eyes of Children
1956·6.7
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955·7.0
Subarashiki shōtai
1955·0.0
The First Kiss
1955·6.4
Stray Sheep
1955·7.0
Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei
1955·0.0
The Refugee
1955·0.0
The Immortal Pitcher
1955·0.0
Striving to Live
1955·0.0
All is Well 2
1955·10.0
All is Well
1955·10.0
The Moon Has Risen
1955·6.9
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954·7.7
新婚たくあん夫婦
1954·0.0
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954·0.0
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954·7.0
Autumn Interlude
1954·0.0
Haru no Wakakusa
1954·0.0
慶安水滸傳
1954·0.0
Love Letter
1953·6.8
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953·6.5
Tokyo Story
1953·8.1
Always in My Heart
1953·6.8
Mole Alley
1953·8.0
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953·0.0
Sisters
1953·0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953·0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952·0.0
Dôkoku
1952·0.0
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952·7.5
Kare o korosu na
1952·0.0
Kyōshū
1952·0.0
Youth of the Son
1952·6.7
The Waves
1952·5.5
Beauty of Life
1951·10.0
Fireworks Over the Sea
1951·5.4
Early Summer
1951·7.9
Boyhood
1951·6.9
Freedom School
1951·7.0
Carmen Comes Home
1951·6.3
Home Sweet Home
1951·6.8
The Good Fairy
1951·5.8
The Actress and the Detective
1950·0.0
The Munekata Sisters
1950·7.1
Gozen reiji no shutugoku
1950·0.0
Kazanmyaku
1950·0.0
Forgotten Children
1949·8.0
Late Spring
1949·8.0
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949·7.0
Kekkon Sanjûshi
1949·0.0
The Fourth Lady
1948·0.0
Living Image
1948·0.0
A Hen in the Wind
1948·7.1
A Woman Who Convicts Men
1948·0.0
Great X
1948·0.0
A Visage to Remember
1948·6.5
Children Hand in Hand
1948·7.0
The Man of Rumor
1948·0.0
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947·7.2
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
1947·7.0
The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946·0.0
Iki na fûraibô
1946·0.0
Saigo no joito
1945·7.0
Sennichimae fukin
1945·0.0
The Young Women of Izu
1945·8.0
Otome no iru kichi
1945·0.0
Gekimetsu no uta
1945·8.0
Army
1944·6.8
The Man Who Has Returned
1944·10.0
Sailor
1944·0.0
Navy
1943·8.0
Our Planes Fly South
1943·0.0
Port of Flowers
1943·7.0
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943·0.0
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
1943·0.0
Kaisen no Zenya
1943·0.0
South Wind 2
1942·0.0
South Wind
1942·0.0
There Was a Father
1942·7.0
Ornamental Hairpin
1941·6.7
Flower
1941·0.0
Let's Go in Good Spirits
1941·0.0
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941·6.9
Introspection Tower
1941·6.7
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940·0.0
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1940·0.0
Mother is Strong
1939·0.0
New Woman Question and Answer
1939·6.0
Spring Thunder
1939·0.0
A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939·6.0
Southern Wind
1939·0.0
Queen of the Wind
1938·0.0
The Lights of Asakusa
1937·6.0
Children in the Wind
1937·7.4
Goodbye to the Front
1937·0.0
The Golden Demon
1937·6.0
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937·6.0
A Star Athlete
1937·7.5
Song of the Flower Basket
1937·8.0
Moon Over the Ruins
1937·6.7
The New Road: Akemi
1936·8.5
Housewife Camellia
1936·7.0
The Only Son
1936·7.4
Boy Aviation Pilots
1936·0.0
College Is a Nice Place
1936·9.0
An Inn in Tokyo
1935·7.1
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934·7.2
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934·5.9
Street Without End
1934·6.6
Love
1933·8.0
Passing Fancy
1933·6.6
Dragnet Girl
1933·6.7
Woman of Tokyo
1933·6.8
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932·6.5
I Was Born, But...
1932·7.6
The Lady and the Beard
1931·6.0
That Night's Wife
1930·6.4
I Flunked, But...
1930·5.9
Days of Youth
1929·5.6
Physical Beauty
1928·10.0
Couple on the Move
1928·9.0
Pumpkin
1928·8.0
Wife Lost
1928·10.0
Dreams of Youth
1928·10.0