Taiji Tonoyama
Born: 1915-10-17 in Tokyo, Japan
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
- Sakura-tai Chiru
- Tomorrow as Storekeeper
- Tokyo Pop as Grandfather
1987
- Hachiko as Hashimoto
- Zegen as Shimada
- Hawaiian Dream as Shokichi Shimamura
- River of Fireflies
1986
- Tree Without Leaves
- Jazz Daimyo as Gensai
1985
1984
- The Horizon as Tanimoto
- Location as Inumaru
- 闇の歯車
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
- A Pool Without Water as Pharmacist
- Tora-san, the Expert
- Irezumi as Horiatsu
- A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- On the Road
1981
- Pro Hunter
- Edo Porn as Tattooist
- Why Not? as Jyosyuya
- Fruits of Passion as Customer
- Kinagashi Bugyō
- Day Dream as Guard
- Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
- Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- Fifth Movement
- Tetsugen
1980
- A-Un
- Nurse's Husband
- Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
- Child of the Sun
- Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Tanejiro Shibata
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Faraway Tomorrow
- The Strangling
- The Fall of Teenager
- Golden Partners as Bend master
- The Bride of the Ghost Lake as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
- The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1978
- Empire of Passion as Toichiro
- Love and Faith
- 幽霊列車
- Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
- Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1977
1976
- In the Realm of the Senses as Old Beggar
- The Roads Men Travel as Sone
- Hobo General
- A Cheerful Yakuza
- Two Harmonicas
1975
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- Scoundrel Boss
- Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- Pimp Heaven as Preacher
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- 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
- The Last Swordsman
- Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- The Homeless
- My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
- The Key
- Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya as Tonomura
1973
- Sex and Fury as Tokuzô Kasai
- Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby as Shimamura
- Stray Dog
- Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa as Ippei
- Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- Did the Red Bird Escape?
- Hell Riders in Kyoto
- Time Within Memory
- Love Lost in Tears
- The Heart as S's Father
- Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- A Woman’s Road
1972
- Ai yori aoku as 俊界和尚
- The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- The Rendezvous as Murai
- Kanawa as Physiognomist
- Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- Hymn as Harumatsu
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
1971
- Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- The Ceremony as Old Chief
- Silence as Prison guard
- King of Pornography
- King of the Widow-Killers
- Onna no Iji as Nakano
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1970
1969
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Higa
- Kuroneko as Farmer
- Wind of Youth
- Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- East China Sea
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
- The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1966
- Ohanahan as 溝呂木老人
- Captive's Island
- The Pornographers as Father
- Violence at Noon as School director
- The Betrayers Out!
- Drunken Harbor as Doctor
- The Little Runaway
- Kokoro no sanmyaku
- Black Curtain
- Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
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
- The Desperate as Chief Osawa
- Samurai from Nowhere
- A Story from Echigo
- The Irresponsible Fool
- Onibaba : Film Location
1963
- The Insect Woman as Foreman
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- The School Cap
- 18 Roughs as Murata
- Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- Mother as Tajima
- どん底だって平ちゃらさ
- Violent Street
1962
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Rokusuke
- Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- Hageshī kawa
- The King
- The Young and Bad
- Farm Girls
- Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- Season of Farewell
- 大吉ぼんのう鏡
- Human as Kamegoro
- Nippon no obaachan
- I am the Judge
- Song of a Traveller
1961
1960
- The Naked Island as Senta
- Irohanihoheto
- Wait for Tomorrow as Inosuke Uematsu
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Sixteen years old
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- Knock Down
- Secret
- My Hometown is the Wild West
- One Passed Through Hell
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- The Last Trump Card as Seitaro Koshimura
- Internees of Kampili
- Storming Squadron
- Yakuza sensei
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- Good Morning as Pushy Man
- My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- The Human Wall
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- Talented Woman
- Whistling in the morning
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1958
- Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- Night Drum
- Hobo Village
- The Boy Who Came Back as Detective Shimamoto
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
- Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- Underwater Murder
- Hanayome no teikō as Yoshimaro Akiyama
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- Harbor Rats
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- Who's the Real Killer as Frank
- Muhō Ichidai
- Temptation as Tobe
- The Champion as Pote-chan
1956
- Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- Actress
- Dotanba
- Our Town as Shime
- Love is Lost as Gensaku
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Shokichi
- 快傑耶茶坊
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Doctor Otsuki
- The Shadow of Fear
1955
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- The Wolves
- If Indeed One Loves as Bartender (segment 1)
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- Burden of Love as Mr. Yamaguchi
- Three Faces
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- Sisters
1954
1953
- Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- Tower of Lilies
- Murahachibu
- Miniature as Yamada
- Yokubo
- Reminiscence
- Before Dawn as Risaburo
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- Sisters of Nishijin
- Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
- Dedication of the Great Buddha
- Violence
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
- Temptation
- The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- Shachō to onna tenin
1947
- The Ball at the Anjo House as Yoshida
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Photographer
1941
- The Battle of Kawanakajima as Rokuzô Ôkuma