Highest rated movie: Seven Samurai (1954)
Lowest rated movie: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
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Movies starring Eijirō Tōno have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 80%.
Seven Samurai - released in 1954 - is Eijirō Tōno's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 734 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Eijirō Tōno is Tora! Tora! Tora! - released in 1970 - with a score of 70% based on 468 reviews.
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). Has also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Erotica! 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 has acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
Eijirō Tōno has acted in films with Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kō Nishimura.
Eijirō Tōno has worked with these film directors: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Gosha, Kinji Fukasaku and Yasujirō Ozu.
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