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
- Thousand Cranes
- Black Rain as Old Priest
- War and Flowers
1988
- Tomorrow as Storekeeper
- Sakura-tai Chiru
- Tokyo Pop as Grandfather
1987
- Hachiko as Hashimoto
- Zegen as Shimada
- River of Fireflies
- Hawaiian Dream as Shokichi Shimamura
1986
- Tree Without Leaves
- Jazz Daimyo as Gensai
1985
1984
- The Horizon as Tanimoto
- Location as Inumaru
1983
- The Ballad of Narayama as Teruyan
- Dark Room as Doctor(医師)
- Legend of the Eight Samurai as Hikojii
- The Bored Samurai as Father of Ogin
- Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- Oiran as Hachibei
1982
- A Pool Without Water as Pharmacist
- Irezumi as Horiatsu
- On the Road
- A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- Tora-san, the Expert
1981
- Edo Porn as Tattooist
- Fruits of Passion as Customer
- Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
- Day Dream as Guard
- Tetsugen
- Fifth Movement
- Eijanaika as Jyosyuya
- Pro Hunter
- Kinagashi Bugyō
1980
- Nurse's Husband
- Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
- Child of the Sun
- Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
- A-Un
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
1978
- Empire of Passion as Toichiro
- Love and Faith
- 幽霊列車
- Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
- Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
1977
1976
- In the Realm of the Senses as Old Beggar
- Hobo General
- Two Harmonicas
- A Cheerful Yakuza
- The Roads Men Travel as Sone
1975
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- Pimp Heaven as Preacher
- Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 as The Master
1974
- Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- Red Light District: Gonna Get Out as Kofukuya's Owner
- The Castle of Sand as Publican at Ebisu
- The Key
- The Last Swordsman
- The Homeless
- My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya as Tonomura
- Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
1973
- Sex and Fury as Tokuzô Kasai
- Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby as Shimamura
- Hell Riders in Kyoto
- Stray Dog
- Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa as Ippei
- Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- Time Within Memory
- A Woman’s Road
- Did the Red Bird Escape?
- Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- Love Lost in Tears
- The Heart as S's Father
1972
- The Lucky Status Symbol
- Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- The Rendezvous as Murai
- The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- The Iron Crown as Physiognomist
- Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- Hymn as Harumatsu
- Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
- Ai yori aoku as 俊界和尚
1971
- Silence as Prison guard
- King of Pornography
- The Ceremony as Old Chief
- Onna no Iji as Nakano
- King of the Widow-Killers
- Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1970
1969
1968
- Profound Desires of the Gods as Higa
- Kuroneko as Farmer
- The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- Wind of Youth
- East China Sea
- Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
1966
- Ohanahan as 溝呂木老人
- Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- Kokoro no sanmyaku
- Violence at Noon as School director
- The Little Runaway
- The Pornographers as Father
- Captive's Island
- Black Curtain
- The Betrayers Out!
- Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
- Drunken Harbor as Doctor
1965
- Seisaku's Wife as Retired Man
- The Start of Life
- An Innocent Witch
- Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- Conquest as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
1964
- Onibaba as Ushi
- A Story from Echigo
- Intentions of Murder as Beret Musician
- Samurai from Nowhere
- The Desperate as Chief Osawa
- The Irresponsible Fool
1963
- The Insect Woman as Foreman
- Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- Mother as Tajima
- 18 Roughs as Murata
- The School Cap
- どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1962
- Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- Season of Farewell
- Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- Song of a Traveller
- Human as Kamegoro
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Rokusuke
- Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- Chibusa o daku musume tachi
- The King
- I am the Judge
- Hageshī kawa
- The Young and Bad
- 大吉ぼんのう鏡
- Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- Nippon no obaachan
1961
1960
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- Whistling in the morning
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- The Human Wall
- Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- Lucky Dragon No. 5
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
- Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- Good Morning as Pushy Man
1958
- The Boy Who Came Back
- Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- Underwater Murder
- Night Drum
- Hobo Village
- Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
1957
- Temptation as Tobe
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- Muhō Ichidai
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- Who's the Real Killer as Frank
- On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- The Champion as Pote-chan
- Harbor Rats
1956
- Dotanba
- Actress
- The Shadow of Fear
- Love is Lost as Gensaku
- Nikoyon monogatari
- Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- 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
- Ai Sureba Koso as Bartender (segment 1)
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- Sisters
- The Beauty and the Dragon
- The Wolves
- Three Faces
1954
1953
- Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- Tower of Lilies
- Before Dawn as Risaburo
- Miniature as Yamada
- Yokubo
- Murahachibu
- Reminiscence
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- Violence
- Sisters of Nishijin
- Dedication of the Great Buddha
- Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
1951
1950
- Scandal as Aoye's friend
- Street of Violence as Ango Shindo
- Spring Snow
1949
- Ishimatsu of the Forest as Waretsuku
1948
- Great X as Matsushita
- Temptation
- The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- Shachō to onna tenin
- Drunken Angel as Shop Proprietor
1947
- The Ball at the Anjo House as Yoshida
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Photographer
1941
- The Battle of Kawanakajima as Rokuzô Ôkuma