Chishū Ryū
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Chishū Ryū was a Japanese actor, whose career spanned 65 years and over 230 film and television productions, He was best known for his collaborations with director Yasujirō Ozu, whom he worked with on
Ryū in Tokyo Story (1953)
Late Spring
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Late Spring is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu.
Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Yumeji Tsukioka
Production still of Setsuko Hara as Noriko and Chishū Ryū as Shukichi.
Hattori (Jun Usami) and Noriko bicycling towards the beach (with the Coca-Cola sign in the foreground)
Ozu's frequent screenwriting partner Kōgo Noda: from Late Spring on, Noda would collaborate on all Ozu's films until the latter's death in 1963