笠智众 (1904) Chishû Ryû
演员
What an amazing career! Few can boast a longer one (64 years of
activity). Few have been able to have to relate to three generations. And it is pretty sure that no one can compare with him in
terms of faithfulness to a director: Chishu Ryu indeed appeared in no
fewer than fifty-two out of fifty-four of his master
Yasujirô Ozu. He played in 187 films or TV
films and could be a very versatile actor: for instance in 1936, when
he was thirty, he embodied a student in one film and an old man in
another. However he was perfect in Ozu's films, most often, as a
simple, unobtrusive man whose humanity is revealed through the
hardships of everyday life. How could Japanese cinema have done without
Chishu Ryu?
