
Eijirō Tōno
Born: 1907-09-17
Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan
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).
Known For

Seven Samurai

An Edo Magistrate

Yojimbo

High and Low

Five Gents Fly to Taiwan

Five Gents and a Kuniang

Shogun and His Mistress 2

Tokyo Story

Tora! Tora! Tora!

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

風雲児

The Story of Pure Love

Red Beard

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Ballad of Narayama

Stray Dog

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

The Battle of Okinawa

Pale Flower

Horus: Prince of the Sun

Good Morning

An Autumn Afternoon

Early Spring

I Live in Fear

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

Island of Hell

Samurai Assassin

Children of Hiroshima

Goyokin

Hunter in the Dark

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

The Master Spearman

Tales of a Golden Geisha

Kill!

A Story from Echigo

The Three Treasures

Immortal Love

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

Pigs and Battleships

The Twilight Story

Sword of the Beast

The Last War

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!

The Lower Depths

Foundry Town

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

The Naked Sun

Death of a Tea Master

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

Buddha

Akitsu Hot Springs

The Eleventh Hour

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

Choji Snack Bar

Untamed Woman

Shimizu Port Salaryman

A House in the Quarter

The Great Wall

Ginza Cosmetics

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II

The Surf

Silence Has No Wings

Blood and Sea

Black River

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

Lost Sex

The Masterless 47 – Part II

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

Girls in the Orchard

The Wolves

The Great White Tower

Navy

Challenge to Live

Wait for Tomorrow

Kaze no uchi so to

The Last Game

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Five Gents' Trick Book

Illusion of Blood

This Madding Crowd

Jubilation Street

The Beast Shall Die

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Beauty and the Thief

Sword for Hire

The Bandits

Sinking the Unsinkable

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

Hiroba no kōdoku

Tears

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

The Stream of Youth

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

I Will Buy You

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

Botchan yarō seizoroi

The Navy

Three Faces of Love

The Vampire Moth

The Sunshine Girl

The Saga of Tanegashima

Season of Farewell

Pressure of Guilt

High Teen

A Carpenter and Children

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

Otome no iru kichi

The War Without Weapons

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II

I Lived, But...

Life of Matsu the Untamed

The Spy

Undercurrent

Song of Vengeance

Floating Weeds Diary

Theater of Life

Four and A Half Mats

Ripe and Marriageable

Lord Mito

The Street Without Sun

Dash to the Sun

Apostasy

5 Gents Fly to Kyushu

Fight of the Gamblers

Rira no hana wasureji

So What

Tange Sazen

Izu no musumetachi

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

Farewell to Spring

The Legend of the White Serpent

Adrift at Sea

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

Monsieur Zivaco

Ôban

The Glorious Days

The Naked Executive

The Pirates

Musume to watashi

Firefly Light

Life of Hishakaku 2

A Public Benefactor

Morning for the Osone Family

The Estuary

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

The Bride from Japan

The Great Road

Industrial Spy Free-for-All

Farewell to Dream

The Orphan Brother

Twilight Saloon

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Boss Takes to the Road

Night Drum

Run, Genta, Run!

Jūdai no seiten

Rice

Fine Man

Policeman's Diary

Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!

Wild Ducks and Green Onions

The Masterless 47

The Man of Seven Faces

Heat and Mud

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Port of Flowers

Actress

Double Wedding

A Grain of Wheat

The Shadow Daughter

The Days of Evil Women

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

Akatsuki no chiheisen

The Cards Will Tell

Girls Born in August

Lady Sen and Hideyori

Salaryman's Medal

Born in Sin

The Crimson Plains

Japan's No. 1 Best Man

The Black Current

Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man

Eddy Currents of Life

Journey to the North

Days with Harasu

A Company President's Life Story

Oban kanketsu hen

Freedom School

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

Sasaki Kojiro

Here Is a Spring

A Man from Akagi

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President

Shimizu Port of Chivalry

Monument to the Girl's Corps

The King and His Vassal

Women's House

Wind and waves of the South

Police Precinct Part 13

Army

The Sandal Keeper

An Osaka Story

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

Love on Rainbow Island

The Human Wall

Our Happiness Alone

Yasubei Nakayama

Ajisai no uta

Seinen no isu

Shishun no izumi

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

Police Precinct: Car 108

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

The Forest Is Alive

The Bride is Fifteen

The Wild Geese

Mount Hakone

Devil's Gold

For This We Fight

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

The Cock Crows Twice

First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday

Facing to the Clouds

My Hometown is the Wild West

Burden of Love

Rinchi

The Third Dead Angle

The Last Judgment

Our Marriage

The Red Shadow

Marriage

The Yamabiko School

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls

The Gambling Samurai

Flame of My Love

Flowery Brothers

Diary of Forsaken Love

Dynamite Doctor

Ukyunosuke on Patrol

Crazy Big Discovery

The Sea of Eden

An Innocent Witch

Will to Conquer

Start Here

The Naked General

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3

The Man from the Moon
