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