Description:
Eijirô Tôno was born on 17 September 1907 in Gunma, Japan. He was an actor, known for Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Yôjinbô (1961) and Sanma no aji (1962). He died on 8 September 1994.
Birthday
September 17, 1907
Born In
Gunma, Japan
Alternative names
Eijiro Tono
Trivia
In recent years, two Japanese movies have consistently appeared in "best of" polls in both Japan and the West as the two greatest Japanese films ever made: Tôkyô monogatari (1953) by 'Yasujiro Ozu' and Shichinin no samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa. For example, in a 2009 poll by the venerable Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo, the Ozu film was voted best Japanese movie of all time, with the Kurosawa film second. But as the two filmmakers worked for different studios, with completely different crews, only Tôno Eijirô worked on both films. In Tôkyô monogatari (1953), he plays the elderly protagonist's bitter drinking buddy, Numata, and in Shichinin no samurai (1954) he plays the small role of the desperate kidnapper who is confronted by the future leader of the samurai, Kambei.
