Taiji Tonoyama
Born: 1915-10-17 in Kobe, Japon
Died: 1989-04-30
Known For: Acting
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
1989
- Black Rain as Old Priest
- Thousand Cranes
- War and Flowers
1988
- Tokyo Pop as Grandfather
- Tomorrow as Storekeeper
- Sakura-tai Chiru
1987
- Hachiko as Hashimoto
- Zegen as Shimada
- Hawaiian Dream as Shokichi Shimamura
- River of Fireflies
1986
- Jazz Daimyo as Gensai
- Tree Without Leaves
1985
1984
- Location as Inumaru
- The Horizon as Tanimoto
- The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1983
- The Ballad of Narayama as Teruyan
- Legend of the Eight Samurai as Hikojii
- Oiran as Hachibei
- Dark Room as Doctor(医師)
- Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- The Bored Samurai as Father of Ogin
- Sacred Koya
1982
- Irezumi as Horiatsu
- A Pool Without Water as Pharmacist
- Tora-san, the Expert
- On the Road
- A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1981
- Pro Hunter
- Edo Porn as Tattooist
- Fruits of Passion as Customer
- Kinagashi Bugyō
- Day Dream as Guard
- Eijanaika as Jyosyuya
- Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- Tetsugen
- Fifth Movement
- Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
1980
- A-Un
- Nurse's Husband
- Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
- Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
- Child of the Sun
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Tanejiro Shibata
- The Strangling
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Golden Partners as Bend master
- Faraway Tomorrow
- The Fall of Teenager
- The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
- The Bride of the Ghost Lake as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
1978
- Empire of Passion as Toichiro
- Love and Faith
- Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
- Ghost Train
- Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1977
1976
- In the Realm of the Senses as Old Beggar
- The Roads Men Travel as Sone
- A Cheerful Yakuza
- Hobo General
- Two Harmonicas
1975
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- Scoundrel Boss
- Pimp Heaven as Preacher
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 as The Master
- 青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1974
- The Castle of Sand as Publican at Ebisu
- Street of Joy as Kofukuya's Owner
- Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- The Key
- The Last Swordsman
- My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
- The Homeless
- Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya as Tonomura
1973
- Sex and Fury as Tokuzô Kasai
- Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa as Ippei
- Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby as Shimamura
- The Heart as S's Father
- Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- Stray Dog
- Hell Riders in Kyoto
- Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- Time Within Memory
- Did the Red Bird Escape?
- Love Lost in Tears
- A Woman’s Road
1972
- Ai yori aoku as 俊界和尚
- The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- Kanawa as Physiognomist
- Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- The Rendezvous as Murai
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- Hymn as Harumatsu
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
- Umarekawatta Tamegorō as Tokuichi Ōnuma
1971
- Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- The Ceremony as Old Chief
- Silence as Prison guard
- King of Pornography
- King of the Widow-Killers
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- Onna no Iji as Nakano
1970
1969
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Higa
- Kuroneko as Farmer
- Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
- Wind of Youth
- The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- East China Sea
1966
- Ohanahan as 溝呂木老人
- Captive's Island
- The Pornographers as Father
- Violence at Noon as School director
- Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- Drunken Harbor as Doctor
- The Little Runaway
- The Betrayers Out!
- Kokoro no sanmyaku
- Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
- Black Curtain
1965
- An Innocent Witch
- Seisaku's Wife as Retired Man
- Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- The Start of Life
- Conquest as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- Escape and the Law
1964
- Onibaba as Ushi
- Intentions of Murder as Beret Musician
- A Story from Echigo
- Samurai from Nowhere
- The Desperate as Chief Osawa
- The Irresponsible Fool
- Onibaba : Film Location
1963
- The Insect Woman as Foreman
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- The School Cap
- Mother as Tajima
- Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- 18 Roughs as Murata
- Violent Street
- Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- Raised on an Island
- どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1962
- Farm Girls
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Rokusuke
- Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- The King
- Nippon no obaachan
- Human as Kamegoro
- Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- Hageshī kawa
- Season of Farewell
- The Young and Bad
- Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- Song of a Traveller
- I am the Judge
- 大吉ぼんのう鏡
1961
1960
- The Naked Island as Senta
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- Wait for Tomorrow as Inosuke Uematsu
- Storming Squadron
- My Hometown is the Wild West
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- The Last Trump Card as Seitaro Koshimura
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Irohanihoheto
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Legendary Hell as Daihachi
- Yakuza sensei
- Knock Down
- Sixteen years old
- Secret
- One Passed Through Hell
- Internees of Kampili
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- Good Morning as Pushy Man
- The Human Wall
- My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- Talented Woman
- Whistling in the Morning
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- Tokyo no Kodoku
1958
- Underwater Murder
- Night Drum
- The Boy Who Came Back as Detective Shimamoto
- Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- Hobo Village
- Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
- Hanayome no teikō as Yoshimaro Akiyama
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- Harbor Rats
- On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- The Champion as Pote-chan
- Who's the Real Killer as Frank
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- Muhō Ichidai
- Temptation as Tobe
1956
- Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- Actress
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Shokichi
- Love is Lost as Gensaku
- Our Town as Shime
- The Shadow of Fear
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Dotanba
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Doctor Otsuki
- 快傑耶茶坊
1955
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- The Wolves
- Sisters
- If Indeed One Loves as Bartender (segment 1)
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- Burden of Love as Mr. Yamaguchi
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- Three Faces
1954
1953
- Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- Tower of Lilies
- Miniature as Yamada
- Reminiscence
- Before Dawn as Risaburo
- Murahachibu
- Yokubo
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- Violence
- Dedication of the Great Buddha
- Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
- Sisters of Nishijin
- Taki no Shiraito as Fukuichi
1951
1950
- Scandal as Aoye's friend
- Town of Violence as Ango Shindo
- Spring Snow as Yasuji
1949
- Ishimatsu of the Forest as Waretsuku
1948
- Drunken Angel as Shop Proprietor
- Great X as Matsushita
- The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- Shachō to onna tenin
- Temptation
1947
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Photographer
- The Ball at the Anjo House as Yoshida
1941
- The Battle of Kawanakajima as Rokuzô Ôkuma