Chishu Ryu

Chish Ry was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting 65 years, appeared in over 160 films and about 70 TV productions.

Ry was born in Tamamizu Village, Tamana County, a rural area of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, the most southerly and westerly of the four main islands of Japan. His father was chief priest of Raishji , a temple of the Honganji School of Pure Land Buddhism. Ry attended the village elementary school and a prefectural middle school before entering the Department of Indian Philosophy and Ethics at Ty University to study Buddhism. His parents hoped he would succeed his father as priest of Raishji, but Ry had no wish to do so and in 1925 dropped out of university and enrolled in the acting academy of the Shchiku motion picture companys Kamata Studios. Shortly afterwards his father died and Ry returned home to take on the role of priest. Within half a year or so, however, he passed the office to his older brother and returned to Kamata.

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