Acting

笠智衆

笠智衆の代表作は男たちの旅路、浮浪雲、たまゆら、あ・うんです。笠智衆は1904年5月13日生まれです。笠智衆は1993年3月16日に88歳で亡くなりました。

生年月日: 1904年5月13日
出身地: Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
没年月日: 1993年3月16日 (88歳)

経歴

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).

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