Chishu Ryu


Chishu Ryu

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Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Imagine That Poor Child Growing Up Like You Relatively quick pace from director Yasujiro Ozu in his final film, bringing businessman and widower Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) home where we meet daughter Michiko (Shima Ishiwata), and younger son Koichi (Keiji Sada), then first son Kazuo (Shin-ichiro Mikami) and sparky wife (Mariko Okada), in An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) She Looked Just Like Your Mother From director Yasujiro Ozu, another evening at home with the Hirayamas, with news from the sentimental widowed father (Chishu Ryu) for daughter Michiko (Shima Ishiwata), younger Koichi (Keiji Sada) and elder son Kazuo (Shin-ichiro Mikami), who needs an assist due to consumer demands from his wife, in An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) He Browbeat You With Chinese Classics First gathering of old school pals Hirayama (Chishu Ryu), Kawai (Noburu Nakamura) and Horie (Ryuji Kita), prefaced with what looks like a real clip of a ballgame between the Hanshin Tigers and Taiyo Whales, at their favorite Tokyo restaurant, talking of their old teacher and married life, in Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
rAutumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Marry Her Off Director Yasujiro opens what would be his final film, unmistakable style and milieu except for a tilt toward colorful, industrial landscapes, introducing Chishu Ryu as executive and widowed dad Hirayama and Noburo Nakamura his visiting pal Kawai, the secretary not credited, in An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Pay Later At home with angered Akiko (Mariko Okada) and husband Kazuo (Shin-ichiro Mikami) whom we learn, with unexpected duplicity, has hit up his father for more money than they needed for a refrigerator, to buy nice golf clubs, though he has a terrific swing, chatting with a pal (Teruo Yoshida), in Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) -- (Movie Clip) He's Rather Tipsy Tokyo businessmen and old school pals HIrayama and Kawai (Chishu Ryu, Noburo Nakamura) bring their impoverished intoxicated old teacher “the Gourd” (Eijiro Tono) home from a tribute they’ve just held for him, meeting his embarrassed daughter (Michiyo Tamaki), in Yasujiro Ozu’s last feature, An Autumn Afternoon, 1962.
Bad Sleep Well, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) An Advance In The Art Of Murder The execution of a dirty trick as corporate underling Miura (Gen Shimizu) is released from prison, only to be confronted with new charges, designed to elicit further confessions, and the prosecutor (Chishu Ryu) catches flak from the press, in Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, 1960.
Early Spring (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Everyone's Dissatisfied Our hero, Tokyo office worker Shoji (Ryo Ikebe) and his quasi-mentor Onodera (Chishu Ryu), in town though he's long been farmed out to the boondocks, visit ex-colleague Kawai (So Yamamura), who opened his own coffee shop, in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring, 1956.

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