Chishū Ryū
Known for Acting
Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu. From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Tokyo Story
1953
as Shukichi Hirayama
Japan's Longest Day
1967
as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Dreams
1990
as Old Man
The Castle of Sand
1974
as Kojuro Kirihara
Red Beard
1965
as Mr. Yasumoto
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
as Masao - Age 73
Late Spring
1949
as Shukichi Somiya
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
as Tayama Dosen
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
Good Morning
1959
as Keitaro Hayashi
Late Autumn
1960
as Shukichi Miwa
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
as Shuhei Hirayama
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
as Hinanmin no Chôrô
Floating Weeds
1959
as Theatre Owner
Early Spring
1956
as Kiichi Onodera
The End of Summer
1961
as Farmer
Equinox Flower
1958
as Shukichi Mikami
The Rickshaw Man
1958
as Toyozo Yuki
The Funeral
1984
as The Priest
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
as Old man in the park