Eijirō Tōno has spent most of a working life as an actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The career has been split between cinema and television rather than settled in either. Among all the titles, 'Seven Samurai' is the one that reached the widest audience. 'Yojimbo' is a second title with real reach.
Eijirō Tōno
Actor
Tomioka, Japon
Sep 17, 1907 – Sep 8, 1994
Age86years
Movies121
Eijirō Tōno has spent most of a working life as an actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The career has been split between cinema and television rather than settled in either. Among all the titles, 'Seven Samurai' is the one that reached the widest audience. 'Yojimbo' is a second title with real reach.
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).