Eijirō Tōno
AKA: 東野英治郎
Birthday: 1907-09-17
Died: 1994-09-08
Birthplace: Gunma, Japan
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).
Filmography
Character: Tokichi Hattori
Character: Old man from Brazil
Character: Gonji, Tavern Keeper
Character: Factory Worker
Character: Tomekichi the Tinker
Character: Hiroshi Tomizawa
Character: Hyogo Moriuchi
Character: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Character: Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
Character: Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Character: Masagorō Kisoya
Character: Captain Umehara
Character: State Councillor Itô
Character: Yôichi's father, Genkichi
Character: Nakaji, Principal
Character: Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
Character: Old man Murata
Character: Fumie's father
Character: Genkichi Miyashita
Character: Shingo’s father
Character: Gonzaemon Hoshino
Character: Baiken Shishido
Character: Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
Character: Shigesuke Hayashi
Character: Detective Kuwashima
Character: Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Character: Sanshô Dayû (voice)
Character: Neighbor / Writer
Character: Seisaku Kajiwara
Character: Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
Character: Jinzaburô Kamo
Character: Admiral Chuici Nagumo
Character: Prime Minister
Character: Narration (voice)
Character: President Kunio
Character: Nakamura, a policeman
Character: Magoro Ichikawa
Character: Oshima's father
Character: Tokugawa Ieyasu
Character: Sakichi Arakawa
Character: Kosugi, president
Character: Mieko's father
Character: Kichinosuke Kawara