Acting

笠智衆

笠智衆 is vooral bekend van 男たちの旅路, 浮浪雲, たまゆら en あ・うん. 笠智衆 werd geboren op 13 mei 1904. 笠智衆 overleed op 16 maart 1993 op 88-jarige leeftijd.

Geboren: 13 mei 1904
Geboorteplaats: Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Overleden: 16 maart 1993 (88 jaar)

Biografie

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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