Taiji Tonoyama
Acting • Born 1915-10-17 – Died 1989-04-30
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.
Filmography
298 credits
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Movie • 1972
Onibaba
Movie • 1964
Ushi
The Naked Island
Movie • 1960
Senta
Shachō to onna tenin
Movie • 1948
Fifth Movement
Movie • 1981
Turbid Youth
Movie • 1954
Three Faces
Movie • 1955
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Movie • 1949
Waretsuku
Hachiko
Movie • 1987
Hashimoto
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Shop Proprietor
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Movie • 1983
Reminiscence
Movie • 1953
Kuroneko
Movie • 1968
Farmer
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Pushy Man
King of Pornography
Movie • 1971
The Ballad of Narayama
Movie • 1983
Teruyan
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie • 1979
Tanejiro Shibata
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Movie • 1971
I am the Judge
Movie • 1962
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Movie • 1972
Violence at Noon
Movie • 1966
School director
Dotanba
Movie • 1956
The Insect Woman
Movie • 1963
Foreman
Strong Women, Weak Men
Movie • 1968
Zenzo
Today is Payday
Movie • 1952
President of Akabane Construction
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Movie • 1973
Shimamura
Sixteen years old
Movie • 1960
大吉ぼんのう鏡
Movie • 1962
Empire of Passion
Movie • 1978
Toichiro
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Movie • 1967
Foundry Town
Movie • 1962
Matsunaga
My Second Brother
Movie • 1959
Hemmi Gengoro
Fruits of Passion
Movie • 1981
Customer
Dynamite Doctor
Movie • 1966
Chairman
Drunken Harbor
Movie • 1966
Doctor
Koina no Ginpei
Movie • 1954
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Movie • 1947
Photographer
Oiran
Movie • 1983
Hachibei
Evil Spirits of Japan
Movie • 1970
Pachinko owner
Seasonal Wind
Movie • 1977
Children of Hiroshima
Movie • 1952
Owner of a ship
Edo Porn
Movie • 1981
Tattooist
Golden Partners
Movie • 1979
Bend master
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Movie • 1974
Tonomura
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Movie • 1973
Shimamura
The King
Movie • 1962
Human
Movie • 1962
Kamegoro
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Movie • 1969
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Movie • 1957
Kurazo
Muddy River
Movie • 1981
Man on Festival Boat
Attack at Daylight
Movie • 1970
Saeki
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Movie • 1968
Old man
快傑耶茶坊
Movie • 1956
Street of Joy
Movie • 1974
Kofukuya's Owner
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Movie • 1973
The Castle of Sand
Movie • 1974
Publican at Ebisu
Ballad of Orin
Movie • 1977
Mountain Man
Who's the Real Killer
Movie • 1957
Frank
Jazz Daimyo
Movie • 1986
Gensai
Whistling in the morning
Movie • 1959
Yukyo-retsuden
Movie • 1970
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
Movie • 1959
The Iron Crown
Movie • 1972
Physiognomist
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Movie • 1973
Ippei
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Movie • 1974
Sex Show Manager
The Key
Movie • 1974
The Ceremony
Movie • 1971
Old Chief
One Passed Through Hell
Movie • 1960
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Movie • 1975
Kinetarô Kitamura
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Movie • 1975
The Master
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Movie • 1975
Harukichi
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Movie • 1975
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
East China Sea
Movie • 1968
My Way
Movie • 1974
Yoshizo Kawamura
Sisters of Nishijin
Movie • 1952
Love's Family Tree
Movie • 1961
The Desperate
Movie • 1964
Chief Osawa
Sex and Fury
Movie • 1973
Tokuzô Kasai
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Movie • 1977
Sôiku
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Movie • 1982
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
Movie • 1969
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Movie • 1968
Junko's Bliss
Movie • 1978
Taizô Sakata
Thousand Cranes
Movie • 1989
Izayoi kaidō
Movie • 1951
Secret
Movie • 1960
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Movie • 1957
Senkichi Hanamura
War and Flowers
Movie • 1989
Murahachibu
Movie • 1953
Spring Snow
Movie • 1950
Yasuji
Hageshī kawa
Movie • 1962
Eros Eterna
Movie • 1977
Song of a Traveller
Movie • 1962
幽霊列車
Movie • 1978
Why Not?
Movie • 1981
Jyosyuya
限りなき情熱
Movie • 1951
In the Realm of the Senses
Movie • 1976
Old Beggar
Child of the Sun
Movie • 1980
Captive's Island
Movie • 1966
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Aoye's friend
Irezumi
Movie • 1982
Horiatsu
Zegen
Movie • 1987
Shimada
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie • 1962
Rokusuke
The Bored Samurai
Movie • 1983
Father of Ogin
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Movie • 1983
Hikojii
Ditch
Movie • 1954
18 Roughs
Movie • 1963
Murata
Day Dream
Movie • 1981
Guard
Dear Summer Sister
Movie • 1972
Takuzo Sakurada
The Rendezvous
Movie • 1972
Murai
Black Rain
Movie • 1989
Old Priest
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Movie • 1970
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Gate of Hell
Movie • 1953
Kakisuke
Nuclear Gypsies
Movie • 1985
Hymn
Movie • 1972
Harumatsu
Silence
Movie • 1971
Prison guard
Irohanihoheto
Movie • 1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Movie • 1959
Kumakichi Takeda
Stray Dog
Movie • 1973
The Little Runaway
Movie • 1966
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Patrolman Kuramochi
The Wolves
Movie • 1955
Black Report
Movie • 1963
Shinsaku Tsuda
Underwater Murder
Movie • 1958
The Last Swordsman
Movie • 1974
Cape Ashizuri
Movie • 1954
The Far Road
Movie • 1977
Nurse's Husband
Movie • 1980
Tetsugen
Movie • 1981
Night Drum
Movie • 1958
Our Town
Movie • 1956
Shime
Four Hours of Terror
Movie • 1959
Teppei Sasada
Before Dawn
Movie • 1953
Risaburo
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Movie • 1971
The Heart
Movie • 1973
S's Father
On the Road
Movie • 1982
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Movie • 1963
Monk
Beyond the Green Hills
Movie • 1963
Endless Desire
Movie • 1958
Ramen shop owner
An Innocent Witch
Movie • 1965
The Human Wall
Movie • 1959
Dark Room
Movie • 1983
Doctor(医師)
Tomorrow Evening
Movie • 1977
River of Fireflies
Movie • 1987
Harbor Rats
Movie • 1957
Tokyo Pop
Movie • 1988
Grandfather
Story of a Beloved Wife
Movie • 1951
Conquest
Movie • 1965
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Tree Without Leaves
Movie • 1986
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie • 1970
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
Love Lost in Tears
Movie • 1973
Tokyo no Kodoku
Movie • 1959
Street of Violence
Movie • 1950
Ango Shindo
A Woman’s Road
Movie • 1973
Libido
Movie • 1967
Hobo Village
Movie • 1958
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie • 1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Movie • 1961
Kotani
Location
Movie • 1984
Inumaru
Great X
Movie • 1948
Matsushita
The Ball at the Anjo House
Movie • 1947
Yoshida
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Movie • 1977
Evening Primrose
Movie • 1974
Genji's father
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
Movie • 1962
The Shadow of Fear
Movie • 1956
Seisaku's Wife
Movie • 1965
Retired Man
Season of Farewell
Movie • 1962
Wind, Woman and Road
Movie • 1958
Kenta
King of the Widow-Killers
Movie • 1971
The Lucky Status Symbol
Movie • 1972
The Betrayers Out!
Movie • 1966
The Strangling
Movie • 1979
Deeper Than Blue
Movie • 1973
Shunkai
Blind Devotion
Movie • 1961
Hikozo
Time Within Memory
Movie • 1973
Mother
Movie • 1963
Tajima
Hawaiian Dream
Movie • 1987
Shokichi Shimamura
Internees of Kampili
Movie • 1960
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Movie • 1941
Rokuzô Ôkuma
The End of a Day
Movie • 1954
The Champion
Movie • 1957
Pote-chan
Darkness at Noon
Movie • 1956
Uhei Matsumura
Hooligans on Buggies
Movie • 1970
The Revelation of a Geisha
Movie • 1970
Pigs and Battleships
Movie • 1961
Chen
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Movie • 1948
Love is Lost
Movie • 1956
Gensaku
Clothes of Deception
Movie • 1951
Kasama
Turtle Geisha
Movie • 1972
Ishibashi
The Start of Life
Movie • 1965
The Seburi Story
Movie • 1985
Kamezo
Daughter of Time
Movie • 1980
Fireworks Hand 2
Faraway Tomorrow
Movie • 1979
A Pool Without Water
Movie • 1982
Pharmacist
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1955
Stolen Pleasure
Movie • 1962
Goro
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Movie • 1973
Kanto Wanderer
Movie • 1963
Boss Izu
Lost Sex
Movie • 1966
Gonpachi
Fresh Leaves
Movie • 1962
Zenkichi Segawa
Yokohama BJ Blues
Movie • 1981
Isao Hori
Until Evening
Movie • 1980
Restaurant's Owner
Wait for Tomorrow
Movie • 1960
Inosuke Uematsu
Intentions of Murder
Movie • 1964
Beret Musician
Tales of President Mito
Movie • 1962
President Toyotomi
Strange Affinity
Movie • 1970
The Homeless
Movie • 1974
The Young and Bad
Movie • 1962
The School Cap
Movie • 1963
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Movie • 1956
Doctor Otsuki
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
Tower of Lilies
Movie • 1953
Miniature
Movie • 1953
Yamada
The Fall of Teenager
Movie • 1979
The Boy Who Came Back
Movie • 1958
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Movie • 1972
Nomura
Shiawase wa doko ni
Movie • 1956
Shokichi
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie • 1977
Burden of Love
Movie • 1955
Mr. Yamaguchi
The Irresponsible Fool
Movie • 1964
Love and Faith
Movie • 1978
Nikoyon monogatari
Movie • 1956
Samurai from Nowhere
Movie • 1964
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie • 1977
Tora-san, the Expert
Movie • 1982
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie • 1979
The White Orchid
Movie • 1951
Who Will Judge Me?
Movie • 1951
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Movie • 1972
Sakura-tai Chiru
Movie • 1988
Ai Sureba Koso
Movie • 1955
Bartender (segment 1)
The Street Without Sun
Movie • 1954
Gen'ichi Inoue
Tomorrow
Movie • 1988
Storekeeper
Song of the Spring Pony
Movie • 1985
Temptation
Movie • 1957
Tobe
On This Earth
Movie • 1957
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
The Pornographers
Movie • 1966
Father
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Movie • 1958
Masumura
Hobo General
Movie • 1976
Temptation
Movie • 1948
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie • 1952
Yokubo
Movie • 1953
Knock Down
Movie • 1960
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie • 1955
Onna no Iji
Movie • 1971
Nakano
The Beauty and the Dragon
Movie • 1955
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Movie • 1966
The Horizon
Movie • 1984
Tanimoto
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Movie • 1959
Actress
Movie • 1956
Violence
Movie • 1952
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Movie • 1959
Detective Machida
Muhō Ichidai
Movie • 1957
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
Movie • 1963
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
Movie • 1978
Two Harmonicas
Movie • 1976
Shōjo
Movie • 1961
The Cards Will Tell
Movie • 1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Movie • 1960
Wakai hito-tachi
Movie • 1954
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Priest
Gokudô Petenshi
Movie • 1969
A Cheerful Yakuza
Movie • 1976
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Movie • 1960
Black Curtain
Movie • 1966
Pimp Heaven
Movie • 1975
Preacher
Wind of Youth
Movie • 1968
My Hometown is the Wild West
Movie • 1960
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
Movie • 1963
Futaridake no taiyō
Movie • 1961
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Movie • 1961
Police Precinct Part 17
Movie • 1961
Profound Desires of the Gods
Movie • 1968
Higa
Sisters
Movie • 1955
The Man from the Moon
Movie • 1951
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie • 1954
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Movie • 1965
Heat Wave Island
Movie • 1969
でかんしょ風来坊
Movie • 1961
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Movie • 1979
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
Scoundrel Boss
Movie • 1975
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
Movie • 1979
Onibaba : Film Location
Movie • 1964
Sacred Koya
Movie • 1983
Talented Woman
Movie • 1959
Yakuza sensei
Movie • 1960
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
Movie • 1975
Violent Street
Movie • 1963
Storming Squadron
Movie • 1960
The Roads Men Travel
TV • 1976
Sone
A-Un
TV • 1980
Kinagashi Bugyō
TV • 1981
Ai yori aoku
TV • 1972
俊界和尚
Ohanahan
TV • 1966
溝呂木老人
Pro Hunter
TV • 1981