Eijirō Tōno
Born September 17, 1907 (Age: 118)
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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).
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).
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Filmography
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1982
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as
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Age: 74
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
1971
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as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
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Age: 64
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
1971
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as Keinosuke Takamatsu
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Age: 63
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970
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as
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Age: 62
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970
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as Gōji Keinosuke
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Age: 62
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
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as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
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Age: 62
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970
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as Takeyunosuke Gōji
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Age: 62
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969
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as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
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Age: 61
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969
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as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
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Age: 61
Crazy Big Discovery
1969
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Age: 61
Song of Vengeance
1968
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as 看守Ａ
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Age: 61
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968
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Age: 60
A Company President's Life Story
1966
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as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
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Age: 58
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Start Here
1965
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as President Sagara
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Age: 57
Salaryman's Medal
1965
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Age: 57
The Sandal Keeper
1964
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Age: 57
The Bride is Fifteen
1964
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Age: 56
白さぎと少年
1964
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 56
Fight of the Gamblers
1963
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Age: 56
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963
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Age: 56
The Sea of Eden
1963
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Age: 55
The Navy
1963
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Age: 55
Double Wedding
1963
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as Goro
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Age: 55
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963
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Age: 55
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
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Age: 55
The Sunshine Girl
1963
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Age: 55
Girls Born in August
1963
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Age: 55
Pressure of Guilt
1963
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Age: 55
Born in Sin
1962
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Age: 55
This Madding Crowd
1962
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as Grandpa Yoshi
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Age: 54
The Bandits
1962
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Age: 54
Facing to the Clouds
1962
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Age: 54
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
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Age: 54
Seinen no isu
1962
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Age: 54
Musume to watashi
1962
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Age: 54
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
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Age: 54
Season of Farewell
1962
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Age: 54
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
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Age: 54
The Red Shadow
1961
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as Jinzaburô Kamo
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Age: 54
No Image
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
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Age: 54
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
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Age: 54
Run, Genta, Run!
1961
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Age: 54
Wind and waves of the South
1961
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as Genji
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Age: 54
Buddha
1961
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as Suratha
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Age: 54
The Last War
1961
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as Captain Umehara
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Age: 54
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
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Age: 54
Immortal Love
1961
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as Policeman
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Age: 53
The Crimson Plains
1961
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as Shinzô Okui
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Age: 53
The Estuary
1961
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as
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Age: 53
The Orphan Brother
1961
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as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
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Age: 53
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
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Age: 53
Challenge to Live
1961
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Age: 53
Fine Man
1961
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Age: 53
Yojimbo
1961
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as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
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Age: 53
An Edo Magistrate
1961
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Age: 53
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
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Age: 53
Pigs and Battleships
1961
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as Kan'ichi
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Age: 53
For This We Fight
1961
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Age: 53
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
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Age: 53
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
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Age: 53
The War Without Weapons
1960
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Age: 53
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
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as Seisaku Kajiwara
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Age: 53
The Pirates
1960
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Age: 53
The Twilight Story
1960
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Age: 52
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
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as Isuke Tsujikura
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Age: 52
Police Precinct Part 13
1960
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Age: 52
The Master Spearman
1960
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Age: 52
The Man of Seven Faces
1960
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as Genkichi Miyashita
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Age: 52
Ajisai no uta
1960
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Age: 52
The Gambling Samurai
1960
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as Kansuke
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Age: 52
The Great Road
1960
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Age: 52
The Forbidden Scoop
1960
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Age: 52
The Cards Will Tell
1960
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Age: 52
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
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as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
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Age: 52
The Bride from Japan
1959
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as Mieko's father
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Age: 52
The Three Treasures
1959
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as Ootomo
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Age: 52
The Human Wall
1959
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Age: 52
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959
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Age: 52
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
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as Saemon, Hikari's father
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Age: 52
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959
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Age: 51
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959
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Age: 51
The Beast Shall Die
1959
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as Detective Kuwashima
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Age: 51
High Teen
1959
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Age: 51
Good Morning
1959
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as Hiroshi Tomizawa
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Age: 51
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
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Age: 51
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
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as Policeman
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Age: 51
Kaze no uchi so to
1959
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Age: 51
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959
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Age: 51
The Third Dead Angle
1959
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Age: 51
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
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Age: 51
The Stream of Youth
1959
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Age: 51
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
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Age: 51
The Days of Evil Women
1958
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Age: 51
Theater of Life
1958
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Age: 51
The Naked General
1958
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Age: 51
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958
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as Mouri
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Age: 50
A Grain of Wheat
1958
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as Aisawa
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Age: 50
The Young Beast
1958
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Age: 50
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
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Age: 50
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
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Age: 50
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
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as Chamberlain
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Age: 50
Firefly Light
1958
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Age: 50
Actress
1956
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Age: 49
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
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as Shiimbei Hayashi
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Age: 49
The Forest Is Alive
1956
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Age: 49
Tears
1956
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Age: 49
Undercurrent
1956
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as Yujiro Funaki
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Age: 48
No Image
How Sorrowful
1956
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Age: 48
No Image
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
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Age: 48
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
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Age: 48
Flowery Brothers
1956
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Age: 48
The Vampire Moth
1956
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as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
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Age: 48
No Image
White Fan
1956
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as Takuetsu
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Age: 48
Floating Weeds Diary
1955
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as Magoro Ichikawa
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Age: 48
The Wolves
1955
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Age: 47
No Image
Murder on the Last Train
1955
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Age: 47
Burden of Love
1955
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as Jozo Araki
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Age: 47
Here Is a Spring
1955
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Age: 47
Policeman's Diary
1955
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as Old man Murata
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Age: 47
Seven Samurai
1954
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as Kidnapper
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Age: 46
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
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Age: 46
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
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Age: 43
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
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Age: 43
Heat and Mud
1950
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Age: 42
Otome no iru kichi
1945
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Age: 37