Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 17, 1907 (86 years old)
Died
September 8, 1994
Place of Birth
Tomioka, Japon
Also Known As
Tōno Eijirō
Эйдзиро Тоно
东野英治郎
東野英治郎
Eijirō Tōno
Biography
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).
Acting
Eijirō Tōno has 287 acting credits
1984
1971
1970
1969
1968
The Burning Sun
1968
as Unknown Role
The Flame of Youth
1968
as Unknown Role
Monument to the Girl's Corps
1968
as Nakaji, Principal
Song of Vengeance
1968
as 看守Ａ
Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968
as Ganko (voice)
Kill!
1968
as Hyogo Moriuchi
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968
as Kinbei Yaita
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968
as Unknown Role
1967
Japan's No. 1 Best Man
1967
as Unknown Role
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1967
as Unknown Role
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967
as Narrator
Monsieur Zivaco
1967
as Unknown Role
Goal for the Young
1967
as Unknown Role
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
1967
as Unknown Role
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
1967
as Unknown Role
Three Faces of Love
1967
as Soga
Industrial Spy Free-for-All
1967
as Unknown Role
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967
as Senzo
Journey to the North
1967
as Kichinosuke Kawara
1966
The Great White Tower
1966
as Professor Teizō Azuma
Dash to the Sun
1966
as Unknown Role
Lost Sex
1966
as Neighbor / Writer
Kill the Night Rose
1966
as Unknown Role
Dynamite Doctor
1966
as Marshal
Four and A Half Mats
1966
as Uyu
Silence Has No Wings
1966
as Unknown Role
A Company President's Life Story
1966
as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
1965
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965
as Seizo
An Innocent Witch
1965
as Unknown Role
Blood and Sea
1965
as Unknown Role
Sword of the Beast
1965
as Minister
The Spy
1965
as Unknown Role
Illusion of Blood
1965
as Unknown Role
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
as Unknown Role
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965
as Unknown Role
The Last Judgment
1965
as Unknown Role
Start Here
1965
as President Sagara
Red Beard
1965
as Goheiji
Salaryman's Medal
1965
as Unknown Role
Samurai Assassin
1965
as Masagorō Kisoya
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965
as Unknown Role
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
as Unknown Role
Eddy Currents of Life
1964
as Shigesuke Hayashi
The Sandal Keeper
1964
as Unknown Role
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
as Unknown Role
The Naked Executive
1964
as Kosugi, president
A Story from Echigo
1964
as Unknown Role
A Public Benefactor
1964
as Unknown Role
Our Happiness Alone
1964
as Unknown Role
The Bride is Fifteen
1964
as Unknown Role
Pale Flower
1964
as Yasuoka
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
as Haiya
白さぎと少年
1964
as Narrator (voice)
1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Fight of the Gamblers
1963
as Unknown Role
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963
as Unknown Role
Tange Sazen
1963
as Unknown Role
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963
as Akiharu
A House in the Quarter
1963
as Unknown Role
The Sea of Eden
1963
as Unknown Role
The Navy
1963
as Unknown Role
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Double Wedding
1963
as Goro
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963
as Unknown Role
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
as Unknown Role
The Sunshine Girl
1963
as Unknown Role
High and Low
1963
as Factory Worker
Girls Born in August
1963
as Unknown Role
Pressure of Guilt
1963
as Unknown Role
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963
as Sosuke Otomo
1962
Born in Sin
1962
as Unknown Role
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
The Great Wall
1962
as Li Tang
Mount Hakone
1962
as Unknown Role
The Man From the Sea
1962
as Unknown Role
This Madding Crowd
1962
as Grandpa Yoshi
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
as Priest
A Carpenter and Children
1962
as Unknown Role
The Bandits
1962
as Unknown Role
Facing to the Clouds
1962
as Unknown Role
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
as Unknown Role
Seinen no isu
1962
as Unknown Role
Foundry Town
1962
as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
Musume to watashi
1962
as Unknown Role
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Our Marriage
1962
as Father
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
as Unknown Role
Season of Farewell
1962
as Unknown Role
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
as Unknown Role
1961
The Red Shadow
1961
as Jinzaburô Kamo
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
as Unknown Role
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
as Unknown Role
Run, Genta, Run!
1961
as Unknown Role
Wind and waves of the South
1961
as Genji
Buddha
1961
as Suratha
The Last War
1961
as Captain Umehara
Sanctuary
1961
as Unknown Role
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
as Unknown Role
Immortal Love
1961
as Policeman
The Crimson Plains
1961
as Shinzô Okui
The Estuary
1961
as Unknown Role
The Orphan Brother
1961
as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
as Unknown Role
Challenge to Live
1961
as Unknown Role
Fine Man
1961
as Unknown Role
Yojimbo
1961
as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
An Edo Magistrate
1961
as Unknown Role
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
as Unknown Role
Pigs and Battleships
1961
as Kan'ichi
For This We Fight
1961
as Unknown Role
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
as Unknown Role
1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
as Unknown Role
The Masterless 47
1960
as Gonosuke Kira
The War Without Weapons
1960
as Unknown Role
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
as Seisaku Kajiwara
The Pirates
1960
as Unknown Role
The Twilight Story
1960
as Unknown Role
The Brawler
1960
as Section Chief Kitaura
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
as Isuke Tsujikura
Police Precinct Part 13
1960
as Unknown Role
The Master Spearman
1960
as Unknown Role
The Man of Seven Faces
1960
as Genkichi Miyashita
Ajisai no uta
1960
as Unknown Role
The Gambling Samurai
1960
as Kansuke
The Great Road
1960
as Unknown Role
The Forbidden Scoop
1960
as Unknown Role
The Cards Will Tell
1960
as Unknown Role
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
1959
The Bride from Japan
1959
as Mieko's father
The Three Treasures
1959
as Ootomo
The Human Wall
1959
as Unknown Role
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959
as Unknown Role
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
as Saemon, Hikari's father
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959
as Unknown Role
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959
as Unknown Role
The Beast Shall Die
1959
as Detective Kuwashima
High Teen
1959
as Unknown Role
Good Morning
1959
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
as Unknown Role
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
as Policeman
Kaze no uchi so to
1959
as Unknown Role
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959
as Unknown Role
The Third Dead Angle
1959
as Unknown Role
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
as Unknown Role
The Stream of Youth
1959
as Unknown Role
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
as Unknown Role
The Days of Evil Women
1958
as Unknown Role
Theater of Life
1958
as Unknown Role
The Naked General
1958
as Unknown Role
The Naked Sun
1958
as Unknown Role
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958
as Mouri
A Grain of Wheat
1958
as Aisawa
The Young Beast
1958
as Unknown Role
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
as Unknown Role
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
as Unknown Role
The Ballad of Narayama
1958
as Messenger
Night Drum
1958
as Unknown Role
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
as Chamberlain
Firefly Light
1958
as Unknown Role
Princess of Revenge
1958
as Unknown Role
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
as Fugetsusai
1957
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
1957
as Unknown Role
The Eleventh Hour
1957
as Unknown Role
Black River
1957
as Kurihara
The Story of Pure Love
1957
as Unknown Role
The Lower Depths
1957
as Tomekichi the Tinker
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957
as Chaplin san
The Shadow Daughter
1957
as Unknown Role
Untamed Woman
1957
as Oshima's father
Hateful Things
1957
as Keisuke kiyama
Turtledove
1957
as Unknown Role
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
as Fugetsusai
An Osaka Story
1957
as Gonzaemon Hoshino
Ôban
1957
as Chaplin-San
Rice
1957
as Unknown Role
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1957
as Kansuke
1956
Actress
1956
as Unknown Role
I Will Buy You
1956
as Ogushi
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
as Shiimbei Hayashi
The Forest Is Alive
1956
as Unknown Role
Tears
1956
as Unknown Role
Undercurrent
1956
as Yujiro Funaki
How Sorrowful
1956
as Unknown Role
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
as Unknown Role
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
as Unknown Role
Flowery Brothers
1956
as Unknown Role
Farewell to Dream
1956
as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
The Vampire Moth
1956
as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
White Fan
1956
as Takuetsu
Early Spring
1956
as Tokichi Hattori
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
1955
I Live in Fear
1955
as Old man from Brazil
Floating Weeds Diary
1955
as Magoro Ichikawa
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
as Baiken Shishido
The Wolves
1955
as Unknown Role
Murder on the Last Train
1955
as Unknown Role
Twilight Saloon
1955
as Onizuka
Beautiful Days
1955
as Imanishi's Father
Burden of Love
1955
as Jozo Araki
Here Is a Spring
1955
as Unknown Role
Policeman's Diary
1955
as Old man Murata
1954
1953
1952
One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
1952
as Unknown Role
Himitsu
1952
as Unknown Role
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
as Unknown Role
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
as Kozo Kawai
Beauty and the Thief
1952
as Jurota
Children of Hiroshima
1952
as Unknown Role
Sword for Hire
1952
as Unknown Role
The Yamabiko School
1952
as Unknown Role
Farewell to Spring
1952
as Sakichi Arakawa
