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