Taiji Tonoyama
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 17, 1915
- Died
- April 30, 1989 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- Kobe, Japon
Biography
Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.
Known For
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Filmography
Toumei na kisetsu
Movie
Thousand Cranes
Movie
War and Flowers
Movie
Black Rain
Movie · as Old Priest
Tokyo Pop
Movie · as Grandfather
Sakura-tai Chiru
Movie
Tomorrow
Movie · as Storekeeper
Hachiko
Movie · as Hashimoto
Zegen
Movie · as Shimada
River of Fireflies
Movie
Hawaiian Dream
Movie · as Shokichi Shimamura
Jazz Daimyo
Movie · as Gensai
Tree Without Leaves
Movie
Nuclear Gypsies
Movie
The Seburi Story
Movie · as Kamezo
Song of the Spring Pony
Movie
Location
Movie · as Inumaru
The Horizon
Movie · as Tanimoto
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
Movie
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Movie
The Ballad of Narayama
Movie · as Teruyan
Oiran
Movie · as Hachibei
The Bored Samurai
Movie · as Father of Ogin
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Movie · as Hikojii
Dark Room
Movie · as Doctor(医師)
Sacred Koya
Movie
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Movie
Irezumi
Movie · as Horiatsu
On the Road
Movie
A Pool Without Water
Movie · as Pharmacist
Tora-san, the Expert
Movie
Fifth Movement
Movie
Fruits of Passion
Movie · as Customer
Edo Porn
Movie · as Tattooist
Muddy River
Movie · as Man on Festival Boat
Eijanaika
Movie · as Jyosyuya
Day Dream
Movie · as Guard
Tetsugen
Movie
Yokohama BJ Blues
Movie · as Isao Hori
Magistrate of the Floating World
Movie
Kinagashi Bugyō
TV · 1 ep
Pro Hunter
TV · 1 ep
Child of the Sun
Movie
Nurse's Husband
Movie
Daughter of Time
Movie · as Fireworks Hand 2
Until Evening
Movie · as Restaurant's Owner
A-Un
TV · 9 eps
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie · as Tanejiro Shibata
Golden Partners
Movie · as Bend master
The Strangling
Movie
Faraway Tomorrow
Movie
Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
Movie
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Movie · as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
Movie
Empire of Passion
Movie · as Toichiro
Junko's Bliss
Movie · as Taizô Sakata
Ghost Train
Movie
Love and Faith
Movie
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
Movie
Seasonal Wind
Movie
Ballad of Orin
Movie · as Mountain Man
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Movie · as Sôiku
Eros Eterna
Movie
The Far Road
Movie
Tomorrow Evening
Movie
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Movie
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie
In the Realm of the Senses
Movie · as Old Beggar
Hobo General
Movie
Two Harmonicas
Movie
A Cheerful Yakuza
Movie
The Roads Men Travel
TV · as Sone · 1 ep
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Movie · as Kinetarô Kitamura
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Movie · as The Master
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Movie · as Harukichi
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Movie · as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
Pimp Heaven
Movie · as Preacher
Scoundrel Boss
Movie
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
Movie
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Movie · as Tonomura
Street of Joy
Movie · as Kofukuya's Owner
The Castle of Sand
Movie · as Publican at Ebisu
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Movie · as Sex Show Manager
The Key
Movie
My Way
Movie · as Yoshizo Kawamura
The Last Swordsman
Movie
Evening Primrose
Movie · as Genji's father
The Homeless
Movie · as Tamezo
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Movie · as Shimamura
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Movie · as Shimamura
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Movie
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Movie · as Ippei
Sex and Fury
Movie · as Tokuzô Kasai
Stray Dog
Movie
The Heart
Movie · as S's Father
Love Lost in Tears
Movie
A Woman’s Road
Movie
Deeper Than Blue
Movie · as Shunkai
Time Within Memory
Movie
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Movie
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
Movie
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Movie
Kanawa
Movie · as Physiognomist
Dear Summer Sister
Movie · as Takuzo Sakurada
The Rendezvous
Movie · as Murai
Hymn
Movie · as Harumatsu
The Lucky Status Symbol
Movie
Turtle Geisha
Movie · as Ishibashi
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Movie · as Nomura
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Movie
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Movie · as Tokuichi Ōnuma
Ai yori aoku
TV · as 俊界和尚 · 309 eps
King of Pornography
Movie
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Movie
The Ceremony
Movie · as Old Chief
Silence
Movie · as Prison guard
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Movie
King of the Widow-Killers
Movie
Onna no Iji
Movie · as Nakano
Evil Spirits of Japan
Movie · as Pachinko owner
Attack at Daylight
Movie · as Saeki
Yukyo-retsuden
Movie
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Movie
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie
Hooligans on Buggies
Movie
The Revelation of a Geisha
Movie
Strange Affinity
Movie
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Movie
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
Movie
Gokudô Petenshi
Movie
Heat Wave Island
Movie
Kuroneko
Movie · as Farmer
Strong Women, Weak Men
Movie · as Zenzo
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Movie · as Old man
East China Sea
Movie
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Movie
Wind of Youth
Movie
Profound Desires of the Gods
Movie · as Higa
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Movie
Libido
Movie
Violence at Noon
Movie · as School director
Dynamite Doctor
Movie · as Chairman
Drunken Harbor
Movie · as Doctor
Captive's Island
Movie
The Little Runaway
Movie
The Betrayers Out!
Movie
Lost Sex
Movie · as Gonpachi
The Pornographers
Movie · as Father
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Movie
Black Curtain
Movie
Ohanahan
TV · as 溝呂木老人 · 310 eps
An Innocent Witch
Movie
Conquest
Movie · as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Seisaku's Wife
Movie · as Retired Man
The Start of Life
Movie
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Movie
Escape and the Law
Movie
Onibaba
Movie · as Ushi
The Desperate
Movie · as Chief Osawa
A Story from Echigo
Movie
Intentions of Murder
Movie · as Beret Musician
The Irresponsible Fool
Movie
Samurai from Nowhere
Movie
Onibaba : Film Location
Movie
The Insect Woman
Movie · as Foreman
18 Roughs
Movie · as Murata
Black Report
Movie · as Shinsaku Tsuda
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Movie · as Monk
Beyond the Green Hills
Movie
Mother
Movie · as Tajima
Kanto Wanderer
Movie · as Boss Izu
The School Cap
Movie
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
Movie
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
Movie
Violent Street
Movie
Raised on an Island
Movie
I am the Judge
Movie
大吉ぼんのう鏡
Movie
Foundry Town
Movie · as Matsunaga
The King
Movie
Human
Movie · as Kamegoro
Hageshī kawa
Movie
Song of a Traveller
Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie · as Rokusuke
Farm Girls
Movie · as Kuranosuke
Season of Farewell
Movie
Stolen Pleasure
Movie · as Goro
Fresh Leaves
Movie · as Zenkichi Segawa
Tales of President Mito
Movie · as President Toyotomi
The Young and Bad
Movie
Nippon no obaachan
Movie
Love's Family Tree
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Movie · as Kotani
Blind Devotion
Movie · as Hikozo
Pigs and Battleships
Movie · as Chen
Shōjo
Movie
Futaridake no taiyō
Movie
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Movie
Police Precinct Part 17
Movie
The Famous Wanderer
Movie
The Naked Island
Movie · as Senta
Sixteen years old
Movie
One Passed Through Hell
Movie
Secret
Movie
Irohanihoheto
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie
Internees of Kampili
Movie
Wait for Tomorrow
Movie · as Inosuke Uematsu
Knock Down
Movie
The Cards Will Tell
Movie
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Movie
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Movie
My Hometown is the Wild West
Movie
Yakuza sensei
Movie
Storming Squadron
Movie
The Last Trump Card
Movie · as Seitaro Koshimura
The Legendary Hell
Movie · as Daihachi
Haha sakura
Movie
Good Morning
Movie · as Pushy Man
My Second Brother
Movie · as Hemmi Gengoro
Whistling in the Morning
Movie
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Movie · as Kumakichi Takeda
Four Hours of Terror
Movie · as Teppei Sasada
The Human Wall
Movie
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie
Tokyo no Kodoku
Movie
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Movie
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Movie · as Detective Machida
Talented Woman
Movie
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
Movie
Underwater Murder
Movie
Night Drum
Movie
Endless Desire
Movie · as Ramen shop owner
Hobo Village
Movie
Wind, Woman and Road
Movie · as Kenta
The Boy Who Came Back
Movie · as Detective Shimamoto
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Movie · as Masumura
Hanayome no teikō
Movie · as Yoshimaro Akiyama
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Movie
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Movie · as Kurazo
Who's the Real Killer
Movie · as Frank
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Movie · as Senkichi Hanamura
Harbor Rats
Movie
The Champion
Movie · as Pote-chan
Temptation
Movie · as Tobe
On This Earth
Movie · as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Muhō Ichidai
Movie
Dotanba
Movie
快傑耶茶坊
Movie
Our Town
Movie · as Shime
The Shadow of Fear
Movie
Darkness at Noon
Movie · as Uhei Matsumura
Love is Lost
Movie · as Gensaku
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Movie · as Doctor Otsuki
Shiawase wa doko ni
Movie · as Shokichi
Nikoyon monogatari
Movie
Actress
Movie
The Three Faces
Movie · as Gen
Policeman's Diary
Movie · as Patrolman Kuramochi
The Wolves
Movie
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Movie
Burden of Love
Movie · as Mr. Yamaguchi
If Indeed One Loves
Movie · as Bartender (segment 1)
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie
The Beauty and the Dragon
Movie
Sisters
Movie
Women of Ginza
Movie
Turbid Youth
Movie
Koina no Ginpei
Movie
Ditch
Movie
Cape Ashizuri
Movie
The End of a Day
Movie
The Street Without Sun
Movie · as Gen'ichi Inoue
Wakai hito-tachi
Movie
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie
Snowy Night Duel
Movie
Reminiscence
Movie
Murahachibu
Movie
Gate of Hell
Movie · as Kakisuke
Before the Dawn
Movie · as Risaburo
Tower of Lilies
Movie
Miniature
Movie · as Yamada
Desire
Movie
Today is Payday
Movie · as President of Akabane Construction
Children of Hiroshima
Movie · as Owner of a ship
Sisters of Nishijin
Movie
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie
Violence
Movie
Taki no Shiraito
Movie · as Fukuichi
Avalanche
Movie · as Miyabayashi
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
Movie
Izayoi kaidō
Movie
限りなき情熱
Movie
Story of a Beloved Wife
Movie
Clothes of Deception
Movie · as Kasama
The White Orchid
Movie
Who Will Judge Me?
Movie
The Tale of Genji
Movie · as Priest
The Man from the Moon
Movie
Saijoke no kyoen
Movie
Freedom School
Movie
Aizenbashi
Movie
Spring Snow
Movie · as Yasuji
Scandal
Movie · as Aoye's friend
Town of Violence
Movie · as Ango Shindo
Yume o meshimase
Movie · as Ton Chiki
The End of the War
Movie
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Movie · as Waretsuku
The President and the Shopgirl
Movie
Drunken Angel
Movie · as Shop Proprietor
Great X
Movie · as Matsushita
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Movie
Temptation
Movie
The Follower
Movie
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Movie · as Photographer
The Ball at the Anjo House
Movie · as Yoshida
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Movie · as Rokuzô Ôkuma