Eijirō Tōno
Eijirō Tōno 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 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).
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🎬 Movies
The Bride from Japan
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1959
The Three Treasures
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1959
The Human Wall
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1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
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1959
The Beast Shall Die
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1959
High Teen
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1959
Good Morning
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1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
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1959
The Third Dead Angle
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1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
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1959
The Stream of Youth
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1959
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
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1958
Theater of Life
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1958
The Naked General
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1958
The Naked Sun
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1958
A Grain of Wheat
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1958
Oban kanketsu hen
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1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
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1958
The Ballad of Narayama
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1958
Night Drum
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1958
Firefly Light
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1958
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
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1957
The Eleventh Hour
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1957
Black River
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1957
The Story of Pure Love
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1957
The Lower Depths
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1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
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1957
Untamed Woman
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1957
Turtledove
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1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
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1957
An Osaka Story
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1957
Ôban
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1957
Rice
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1957
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
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1957
Actress
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1956
I Will Buy You
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1956
Love on Rainbow Island
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1956
Undercurrent
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1956
How Sorrowful
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1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
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1956
The Legend of the White Serpent
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1956
Farewell to Dream
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1956
The Vampire Moth
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1956
White Fan
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1956
Early Spring
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1956
I Live in Fear
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1955
Floating Weeds Diary
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1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
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1955
The Wolves
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1955
Twilight Saloon
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1955
Beautiful Days
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1955
Burden of Love
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1955
Here Is a Spring
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1955
Policeman's Diary
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1955
The Cock Crows Twice
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1954
The Surf
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1954
The Black Current
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1954
The Street Without Sun
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1954
Seven Samurai
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1954
Tokyo Story
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1953
Waseda University
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1953
The Wild Geese
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1953
Girls in the Orchard
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1953
Hiroba no kōdoku
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1953
Shishun no izumi
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1953
The Tattoo Murder Case
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1953
Jūdai no seiten
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1953
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
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1952
Children of Hiroshima
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1952
Sword for Hire
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1952
Sasaki Kojiro
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1951
Ginza Cosmetics
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1951
Devil's Gold
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1950