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
- The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- The Horizon as Tanimoto
- Location as Inumaru
1983
- The Ballad of Narayama as Teruyan
- Legend of the Eight Samurai as Hikojii
- Dark Room as Doctor(医師)
- Oiran as Hachibei
- Sacred Koya
- The Bored Samurai as Father of Ogin
- 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
- Fruits of Passion as Customer
- Edo Porn as Tattooist
- Fifth Movement
- Kinagashi Bugyō
- Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
- Day Dream as Guard
- Eijanaika as Jyosyuya
- Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- Magistrate of the Floating World
- Tetsugen
1980
- A-Un
- Child of the Sun
- Nurse's Husband
- Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
- Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Tanejiro Shibata
- The Strangling
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Golden Partners as Bend master
- Faraway Tomorrow
- Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
- 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
- Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
- Love and Faith
- 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
- Hobo General
- A Cheerful Yakuza
- Two Harmonicas
1975
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 as The Master
- Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- Pimp Heaven as Preacher
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- Scoundrel Boss
- 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 Key
- Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
- My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- The Last Swordsman
- The Homeless
- 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
- Time Within Memory
- Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- Did the Red Bird Escape?
- The Heart as S's Father
- Love Lost in Tears
- A Woman’s Road
- Hell Riders in Kyoto
1972
- Ai yori aoku as 俊界和尚
- The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- The Rendezvous as Murai
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Kanawa as Physiognomist
- Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- Hymn as Harumatsu
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- Umarekawatta Tamegorō as Tokuichi Ōnuma
- It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1971
- Silence as Prison guard
- Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- The Ceremony as Old Chief
- King of the Widow-Killers
- King of Pornography
- Onna no Iji as Nakano
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1970
1969
1968
- Kuroneko as Farmer
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Higa
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
- The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- Wind of Youth
- Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- East China Sea
1966
- Ohanahan as 溝呂木老人
- The Pornographers as Father
- Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
- Violence at Noon as School director
- Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- Captive's Island
- The Little Runaway
- Drunken Harbor as Doctor
- Kokoro no sanmyaku
- The Betrayers Out!
- Black Curtain
1965
- An Innocent Witch
- Seisaku's Wife as Retired Man
- Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- Escape and the Law
- Conquest as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- The Start of Life
1964
- Onibaba as Ushi
- Samurai from Nowhere
- A Story from Echigo
- Intentions of Murder as Beret Musician
- Onibaba : Film Location
- The Irresponsible Fool
- The Desperate as Chief Osawa
1963
- The Insect Woman as Foreman
- Mother as Tajima
- Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- The School Cap
- Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Raised on an Island
- Violent Street
- 18 Roughs as Murata
- どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1962
- Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Rokusuke
- Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- Human as Kamegoro
- The Young and Bad
- Song of a Traveller
- The King
- Nippon no obaachan
- Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- Season of Farewell
- Hageshī kawa
- Farm Girls as Kuranosuke
- Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- I am the Judge
- 大吉ぼんのう鏡
1961
1960
- The Naked Island as Senta
- Irohanihoheto
- Storming Squadron
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- The Legendary Hell as Daihachi
- Wait for Tomorrow as Inosuke Uematsu
- The Cards Will Tell
- Yakuza sensei
- Sixteen years old
- The Last Trump Card as Seitaro Koshimura
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- My Hometown is the Wild West
- Internees of Kampili
- Secret
- Knock Down
- One Passed Through Hell
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- Good Morning as Pushy Man
- Whistling in the Morning
- The Telephone Rings in the Evening
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- Talented Woman
- The Human Wall
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
1958
- Night Drum
- Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- Underwater Murder
- The Boy Who Came Back as Detective Shimamoto
- Hanayome no teikō as Yoshimaro Akiyama
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
- Hobo Village
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- The Champion as Pote-chan
- Temptation as Tobe
- Who's the Real Killer as Frank
- Muhō Ichidai
- Harbor Rats
1956
- Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- The Shadow of Fear
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Doctor Otsuki
- 快傑耶茶坊
- Dotanba
- Love is Lost as Gensaku
- Actress
- Our Town as Shime
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Shokichi
1955
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- The Wolves
- If Indeed One Loves as Bartender (segment 1)
- Burden of Love as Mr. Yamaguchi
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- Sisters
- The Three Faces as Gen
1954
1953
- Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- Miniature as Yamada
- Reminiscence
- Tower of Lilies
- Before the Dawn as Risaburo
- Desire
- Murahachibu
1952
- Avalanche as Miyabayashi
- Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
- Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- Violence
- Dedication of the Great Buddha
- Sisters of Nishijin
- Taki no Shiraito as Fukuichi
- Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
1951
1950
- Scandal as Aoye's friend
- The End of the War
- Spring Snow as Yasuji
- Yume o meshimase as Ton Chiki
- Town of Violence as Ango Shindo
1949
- Ishimatsu of the Forest as Waretsuku
1948
- Drunken Angel as Shop Proprietor
- The President and the Shopgirl
- The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- The Follower
- Great X as Matsushita
- 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