Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
Born October 17, 1915, Kobe, Japon
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.
Filmography
- 1989Black Rain — Old Priest
- 1989Thousand Cranes
- 1989War and Flowers
- 1988Sakura-tai Chiru
- 1988Tokyo Pop — Grandfather
- 1988Tomorrow — Storekeeper
- 1987Hachiko — Hashimoto
- 1987Hawaiian Dream — Shokichi Shimamura
- 1987River of Fireflies
- 1987Zegen — Shimada
- 1986Jazz Daimyo — Gensai
- 1986Tree Without Leaves
- 1985Nuclear Gypsies
- 1985Song of the Spring Pony
- 1985The Seburi Story — Kamezo
- 1984Location — Inumaru
- 1984The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1984The Horizon — Tanimoto
- 1983Dark Room — Doctor(医師)
- 1983Legend of the Eight Samurai — Hikojii
- 1983Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- 1983Oiran — Hachibei
- 1983Sacred Koya
- 1983The Ballad of Narayama — Teruyan
- 1983The Bored Samurai — Father of Ogin
- 1982A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- 1982A Pool Without Water — Pharmacist
- 1982Irezumi — Horiatsu
- 1982On the Road
- 1982Tora-san, the Expert
- 1981Day Dream — Guard
- 1981Edo Porn — Tattooist
- 1981Eijanaika — Jyosyuya
- 1981Fifth Movement
- 1981Fruits of Passion — Customer
- Kinagashi Bugyō
- 1981Magistrate of the Floating World
- 1981Muddy River — Man on Festival Boat
- Pro Hunter
- 1981Tetsugen
- 1981Yokohama BJ Blues — Isao Hori
- A-Un
- 1980Child of the Sun
- 1980Daughter of Time — Fireworks Hand 2
- 1980Nurse's Husband
- 1980Until Evening — Restaurant's Owner
- 1979Faraway Tomorrow
- 1979Golden Partners — Bend master
- 1979Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
- 1979The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
- 1979The Bride of the Ghost Lake — Goichi Nishida (village chief)
- 1979The Strangling
- 1979Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- 1979Vengeance Is Mine — Tanejiro Shibata
- 1978Empire of Passion — Toichiro
- 1978Ghost Train
- 1978Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
- 1978Junko's Bliss — Taizô Sakata
- 1978Love and Faith
- 1977Ballad of Orin — Mountain Man
- 1977Case of the Disjointed Murder
- 1977Eros Eterna
- 1977Seasonal Wind
- 1977The Far Road
- 1977The Gate of Youth Part 2
- 1977The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- 1977Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow — Sôiku
- 1977Tomorrow Evening
- 1976A Cheerful Yakuza
- 1976Hobo General
- 1976In the Realm of the Senses — Old Beggar
- The Roads Men Travel — Sone
- 1976Two Harmonicas
- 1975A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse — Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- 1975Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment — Kinetarô Kitamura
- 1975Housewife's Experience: Tenement — Harukichi
- 1975Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 — The Master
- 1975Pimp Heaven — Preacher
- 1975Scoundrel Boss
- 1975青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
- 1974Evening Primrose — Genji's father
- 1974Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya — Tonomura
- 1974My Way — Yoshizo Kawamura
- 1974Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama — Sex Show Manager
- 1974Street of Joy — Kofukuya's Owner
- 1974The Castle of Sand — Publican at Ebisu
- 1974The Homeless
- 1974The Key
- 1974The Last Swordsman
- 1973A Woman’s Road
- 1973Deeper Than Blue — Shunkai
- 1973Did the Red Bird Escape?
- 1973Hell Riders in Kyoto
- 1973Love Lost in Tears
- 1973Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa — Ippei
- 1973Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer — Shimamura
- 1973Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby — Shimamura
- 1973Sex and Fury — Tokuzô Kasai
- 1973Stray Dog
- 1973The Heart — S's Father
- 1973Time Within Memory
- 1972Afternoon Affair: Rear Window — Nomura
- Ai yori aoku — 俊界和尚
- 1972Dear Summer Sister — Takuzo Sakurada
- 1972Hymn — Harumatsu
- 1972It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
- 1972Kanawa — Physiognomist
- 1972The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- 1972The Lucky Status Symbol
- 1972The Rendezvous — Murai
- 1972The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 1972Turtle Geisha — Ishibashi
- 1972Umarekawatta Tamegorō — Tokuichi Ōnuma
- 1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- 1971Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- 1971King of Pornography
- 1971King of the Widow-Killers
- 1971Onna no Iji — Nakano
- 1971Silence — Prison guard
- 1971The Ceremony — Old Chief
- 1970Attack at Daylight — Saeki
- 1970Evil Spirits of Japan — Pachinko owner
- 1970Hooligans on Buggies
- 1970Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
- 1970Strange Affinity
- 1970The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
- 1970The Revelation of a Geisha
- 1970Yukyo-retsuden
- 1969Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
- 1969Gokudô Petenshi
- 1969Heat Wave Island
- 1969Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
- 1968East China Sea
- 1968Kuroneko — Farmer
- 1968Profound Desires of the Gods — Higa
- 1968Strong Women, Weak Men — Zenzo
- 1968The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- 1968Three Resurrected Drunkards — Old man
- 1968Wind of Youth
- 1967Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
- 1967Libido
- 1966Black Curtain
- 1966Captive's Island
- 1966Drunken Harbor — Doctor
- 1966Dynamite Doctor — Chairman
- 1966Kokoro no sanmyaku
- 1966Lost Sex — Gonpachi
- Ohanahan — 溝呂木老人
- 1966The Betrayers Out!
- 1966The Little Runaway
- 1966The Pornographers — Father
- 1966Violence at Noon — School director
- 1965An Innocent Witch
- 1965Conquest — Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- 1965Escape and the Law
- 1965Seisaku's Wife — Retired Man
- 1965Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- 1965The Start of Life
- 1964A Story from Echigo
- 1964Intentions of Murder — Beret Musician
- 1964Onibaba — Ushi
- 1964Onibaba : Film Location
- 1964Samurai from Nowhere
- 1964The Desperate — Chief Osawa
- 1964The Irresponsible Fool
- 196318 Roughs — Murata
- 1963Bamboo Doll of Echizen — Monk
- 1963Beyond the Green Hills
- 1963Black Report — Shinsaku Tsuda
- 1963Kanto Wanderer — Boss Izu
- 1963Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- 1963Mother — Tajima
- 1963Raised on an Island
- 1963The Insect Woman — Foreman
- 1963The School Cap
- 1963Violent Street
- 1963どん底だって平ちゃらさ
- 1962Akitsu Hot Springs — Rokusuke
- 1962Farm Girls — Kuranosuke
- 1962Foundry Town — Matsunaga
- 1962Fresh Leaves — Zenkichi Segawa
- 1962Hageshī kawa
- 1962Human — Kamegoro
- 1962I am the Judge
- 1962Nippon no obaachan
- 1962Season of Farewell
- 1962Song of a Traveller
- 1962Stolen Pleasure — Goro
- 1962Tales of President Mito — President Toyotomi
- 1962The King
- 1962The Young and Bad
- 1962大吉ぼんのう鏡
- 1961Blind Devotion — Hikozo
- 1961Futaridake no taiyō
- 1961Love's Family Tree
- 1961Pigs and Battleships — Chen
- 1961Police Precinct Part 17
- 1961Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
- 1961Shōjo
- 1961The Famous Wanderer
- 1961The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 — Kotani
- 1960A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- 1960Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- 1960Internees of Kampili
- 1960Irohanihoheto
- 1960Knock Down
- 1960My Hometown is the Wild West
- 1960One Passed Through Hell
- 1960Secret
- 1960Sixteen years old
- 1960Storming Squadron
- 1960The Cards Will Tell
- 1960The Last Trump Card — Seitaro Koshimura
- 1960The Legendary Hell — Daihachi
- 1960The Naked Island — Senta
- 1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- 1960Wait for Tomorrow — Inosuke Uematsu
- 1960Yakuza sensei
- 1959A Killed Stewardess: White or Black — Detective Machida
- 1959Four Hours of Terror — Teppei Sasada
- 1959Good Morning — Pushy Man
- 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- 1959Lucky Dragon No. 5
- 1959My Second Brother — Hemmi Gengoro
- 1959Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- 1959Talented Woman
- 1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- 1959The Human Wall
- 1959The Prickly Mouthed Geisha — Kumakichi Takeda
- 1959The Telephone Rings in the Evening
- 1959Tokyo no Kodoku
- 1959Whistling in the Morning
- 1958Endless Desire — Ramen shop owner
- 1958Hanayome no teikō — Yoshimaro Akiyama
- 1958Hobo Village
- 1958Night Drum
- 1958Sorrow Is Only for Women
- 1958The Boy Who Came Back — Detective Shimamoto
- 1958The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow — Masumura
- 1958Underwater Murder
- 1958Wind, Woman and Road — Kenta
- 1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era — Kurazo
- 1957Birth of a Jazz Maiden — Senkichi Hanamura
- 1957Harbor Rats
- 1957Muhō Ichidai
- 1957On This Earth — Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- 1957Temptation — Tobe
- 1957The Champion — Pote-chan
- 1957Who's the Real Killer — Frank
- 1956Actress
- 1956Darkness at Noon — Uhei Matsumura
- 1956Dotanba
- 1956Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers — Doctor Otsuki
- 1956Love is Lost — Gensaku
- 1956Nikoyon monogatari
- 1956Our Town — Shime
- 1956Shiawase wa doko ni — Shokichi
- 1956The Shadow of Fear
- 1956快傑耶茶坊
- 1955Burden of Love — Mr. Yamaguchi
- 1955If Indeed One Loves — Bartender (segment 1)
- 1955Policeman's Diary — Patrolman Kuramochi
- 1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1955Sisters
- 1955The Beauty and the Dragon
- 1955The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- 1955The Three Faces — Gen
- 1955The Wolves
- 1955Women of Ginza
- 1954Cape Ashizuri
- 1954Ditch
- 1954Koina no Ginpei
- 1954Snowy Night Duel
- 1954The End of a Day
- 1954The Street Without Sun — Gen'ichi Inoue
- 1954The Valley Between Love and Death
- 1954Turbid Youth
- 1954Wakai hito-tachi
- 1953Before the Dawn — Risaburo
- 1953Desire
- 1953Gate of Hell — Kakisuke
- 1953Miniature — Yamada
- 1953Murahachibu
- 1953Reminiscence
- 1953Tower of Lilies
- 1952Avalanche — Miyabayashi
- 1952Children of Hiroshima — Owner of a ship
- 1952Dedication of the Great Buddha
- 1952Sisters of Nishijin
- 1952Taki no Shiraito — Fukuichi
- 1952Today is Payday — President of Akabane Construction
- 1952Violence
- 1952Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- 1951Aizenbashi
- 1951Clothes of Deception — Kasama
- 1951Freedom School
- 1951Izayoi kaidō
- 1951Saijoke no kyoen
- 1951Story of a Beloved Wife
- 1951The Man from the Moon
- 1951The Tale of Genji — Priest
- 1951The White Orchid
- 1951Who Will Judge Me?
- 1951限りなき情熱
- 1950Scandal — Aoye's friend
- 1950Spring Snow — Yasuji
- 1950The End of the War
- 1950Town of Violence — Ango Shindo
- 1950Yume o meshimase — Ton Chiki
- 1949Ishimatsu of the Forest — Waretsuku
- 1948Drunken Angel — Shop Proprietor
- 1948Great X — Matsushita
- 1948Temptation
- 1948The Follower
- 1948The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- 1948The President and the Shopgirl
- 1947Record of a Tenement Gentleman — Photographer
- 1947The Ball at the Anjo House — Yoshida
- 1941The Battle of Kawanakajima — Rokuzô Ôkuma
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