Eijirō Tōno
Born
September 17, 1907
Died
September 8, 1994 (86 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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).

Tales of a Golden Geisha
Prime Minister
1990

Days with Harasu
1989

Death of a Tea Master
Kokei
1989

So What
1988
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
Narration (voice)
1984

Adrift at Sea
1983

Choji Snack Bar
1983

I Lived, But...
Self
1983

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

The King and His Vassal
1981

The Last Game
1979

Hunter in the Dark
Shogen
1979

Lord Mito
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
1978

Island of Hell
Kaemon Kito
1977

水戸黄門 第3部
(1 episode)
1971

The Battle of Okinawa
1971

Will to Conquer
1970

水戸黄門 第2部
(1 episode)
1970

The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970

Five Gents and a Kuniang
Gōji Keinosuke
1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Chuici Nagumo
1970

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
Takeyunosuke Gōji
1970

Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Sanpo Sensei
1969

水戸黄門 第1部
(1 episode)
1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
1969

Goyokin
1969

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
1969

Monument to the Girl's Corps
Nakaji, Principal
1968

Song of Vengeance
看守A
1968

Horus: Prince of the Sun
Ganko (voice)
1968

Kill!
Hyogo Moriuchi
1968

The Saga of Tanegashima
Kinbei Yaita
1968

Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968

Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967

Shogun and His Mistress 2
Narrator
1967

Monsieur Zivaco
1967

Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
1967

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
1967

Three Faces of Love
Soga
1967

Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Senzo
1967

Journey to the North
Kichinosuke Kawara
1967

The Great White Tower
1966

Dash to the Sun
1966

Lost Sex
Neighbor / Writer
1966

Dynamite Doctor
Marshal
1966

Four and A Half Mats
Uyu
1966

Silence Has No Wings
1966

A Company President's Life Story
Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
1966

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Seizo
1965

An Innocent Witch
1965

Blood and Sea
1965

Sword of the Beast
Minister
1965

The Spy
1965

Illusion of Blood
1965

Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965

Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965

The Last Judgment
1965

Red Beard
Goheiji
1965

Salaryman's Medal
1965

Samurai Assassin
Masagorō Kisoya
1965

Five Gents' Trick Book
1965

The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964

Eddy Currents of Life
Shigesuke Hayashi
1964

The Sandal Keeper
1964

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964

The Naked Executive
Kosugi, president
1964

A Story from Echigo
1964

Our Happiness Alone
1964

Hanayome wa jū go-sai
1964

Pale Flower
Yasuoka
1964

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Haiya
1964

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963

Fight of the Gamblers
1963

Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963

Tange Sazen
1963

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Akiharu
1963

A House in the Quarter
1963

The Navy
1963

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1963

Double Wedding
Goro
1963

Life of Hishakaku 2
1963

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
1963

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963

The Sunshine Girl
1963

High and Low
Factory Worker
1963

Girls Born in August
1963

Pressure of Guilt
1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Sosuke Otomo
1963

Born in Sin
1962

An Autumn Afternoon
Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
1962

The Great Wall
Li Tang
1962

Mount Hakone
1962
The Man From the Sea
1962

This Madding Crowd
Grandpa Yoshi
1962

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962

A Carpenter and Children
1962

The Bandits
1962

Facing to the Clouds
1962

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962

Seinen no isu
1962

Foundry Town
Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
1962

Musume to watashi
1962

Lady Sen and Hideyori
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1962

Our Marriage
Father
1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962

Season of Farewell
1962

Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962

The Red Shadow
Jinzaburô Kamo
1961

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko
1961
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961

Run, Genta, Run!
1961

Wind and waves of the South
Genji
1961

Buddha
Suratha
1961

The Last War
Captain Umehara
1961

Boss Takes to the Road
1961

Immortal Love
Policeman
1961

The Crimson Plains
Shinzô Okui
1961

The Estuary
1961

The Orphan Brother
Sanshô Dayû (voice)
1961

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

Challenge to Live
1961

Fine Man
1961

Yojimbo
Gonji, Tavern Keeper
1961

An Edo Magistrate
1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961

Pigs and Battleships
Kan'ichi
1961

For This We Fight
1961

Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961

Ore no furusato wa dai seibu
1960

The Masterless 47
Gonosuke Kira
1960

The War Without Weapons
1960

Wait for Tomorrow
Seisaku Kajiwara
1960

The Pirates
1960

The Twilight Story
1960

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Isuke Tsujikura
1960

Police Precinct Part 13
1960

The Master Spearman
1960

The Man of Seven Faces
Genkichi Miyashita
1960

あじさいの歌
1960

The Gambling Samurai
Kansuke
1960

The Great Road
1960

The Cards Will Tell
1960

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Isuke Tsujikura (President)
1960

Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Mieko's father
1959

The Three Treasures
Ootomo
1959

The Human Wall
1959

Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959

Ripe and Marriageable
Saemon, Hikari's father
1959

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959

Police Precinct: Car 108
1959

The Beast Shall Die
Detective Kuwashima
1959

High Teen
1959

Good Morning
Hiroshi Tomizawa
1959

Diary of Forsaken Love
1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Policeman
1959

Kaze no uchi so to
1959

The Third Dead Angle
1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959

The Stream of Youth
1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958

The Days of Evil Women
1958

Theater of Life
1958

The Naked General
1958

The Naked Sun
1958

A Grain of Wheat
Aisawa
1958

Oban kanketsu hen
1958

Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958

The Ballad of Narayama
Messenger
1958

Night Drum
1958

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Chamberlain
1958

Firefly Light
1958

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Fugetsusai
1958

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957

The Eleventh Hour
1957

Black River
Kurihara
1957

The Story of Pure Love
1957

The Lower Depths
Tomekichi the Tinker
1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Chaplin san
1957

The Shadow Daughter
1957

Untamed Woman
Oshima's father
1957

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Fugetsusai
1957

An Osaka Story
Gonzaemon Hoshino
1957

Ôban
Chaplin-San
1957

Rice
1957

Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Kansuke
1957

Actress
1956

I Will Buy You
Ogushi
1956

Love on Rainbow Island
Shiimbei Hayashi
1956

The Forest Is Alive
1956

Tears
1956

Night River
Yujiro Funaki
1956
How Sorrowful
1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956

The Legend of the White Serpent
1956

Flowery Brothers
1956

Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's father, Genkichi
1956

The Vampire Moth
Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
1956
White Fan
Takuetsu
1956

Early Spring
Tokichi Hattori
1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
1956

I Live in Fear
Old man from Brazil
1955

Floating Weeds Diary
Magoro Ichikawa
1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Baiken Shishido
1955

The Wolves
1955
Murder on The Last Train
1955

Twilight Saloon
Onizuka
1955

Burden of Love
Jozo Araki
1955

Here Is a Spring
1955

Policeman's Diary
Old man Murata
1955

The Cock Crows Twice
1954

Women's House
1954

The Surf
Schoolmaster
1954

The Black Current
1954

The Street Without Sun
President Kunio
1954

Seven Samurai
Kidnapper
1954

The Glorious Days
1954

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954

Tokyo Story
Numata
1953

Hiroba no kōdoku
1953

The Wild Geese
Suezo
1953

Girls in the Orchard
1953

Shishun no izumi
Nakamura, a policeman
1953

Jūdai no seiten
1953

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Kozo Kawai
1952

Beauty and the Thief
Jurota
1952

Children of Hiroshima
1952

Sword for Hire
1952

The Yamabiko School
1952

Farewell to Spring
Sakichi Arakawa
1952

Sasaki Kojiro
1951

風雲児
1951

Freedom School
1951

Ginza Cosmetics
Hyôbei Sugano
1951

Yasubei Nakayama
1951

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950

A Man from Akagi
1950

Heat and Mud
1950

Devil's Gold
1950

Rinchi
1949

Stray Dog
1949
Late Night Confession
1949

Flame of My Love
State Councillor Itô
1949

Apostasy
1948

A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Yoshii
1948

Rira no hana wasureji
1947

The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947

Marriage
Fumie's father
1947

Morning for the Osone Family
Ippei Yamaka
1946

Izu no musumetachi
1945

Otome no iru kichi
1945

Army
Sakuragi
1944

Jubilation Street
Shingo’s father
1944

Sinking the Unsinkable
1944

Navy
Teacher Ogata
1943

Port of Flowers
Hayashida
1943