Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
Born
Oct 17, 1915
From
Tokyo, Japan
Died
Apr 30, 1989
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.
Known For
6.6
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
5.2
Fruits of Passion
Customer
6.1
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
7.5
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
7.7
Good Morning
Pushy Man
8.1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
7.8
Hachiko
Hashimoto
7.6
Black Rain
Old Priest
5.2
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
5.7
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
Filmography — Acting
6.6
1976
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
5.2
1981
Fruits of Passion
Customer
6.1
1973
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
7.5
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
7.7
1959
Good Morning
Pushy Man
8.1
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
7.8
1987
Hachiko
Hashimoto
7.6
1989
Black Rain
Old Priest
5.2
1982
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
5.7
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
6.9
1978
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
7.6
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
3.0
1971
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
7.7
1964
Onibaba
Ushi
7.3
1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
7.3
1981
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
7.3
1974
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
7.6
1948
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
6.9
1950
Scandal
Aoye's friend
7.2
1963
The Insect Woman
Foreman
5.9
1981
Edo Porn
Tattooist
7.1
1961
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
5.7
1958
Night Drum
4.4
1979
The Strangling
1955
Sisters
7.1
1953
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
1957
Who's the Real Killer
Frank
4.6
1972
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
7.0
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
5.8
1975
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
5.0
1983
Dark Room
Doctor(医師)
6.8
1971
The Ceremony
Old Chief
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
7.0
1964
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
7.2
1966
The Pornographers
Father
5.5
1951
The Tale of Genji
Priest
6.3
1978
Love and Faith
7.8
1986
Tree Without Leaves
1954
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
1970
Strange Affinity
8.0
1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1981
Fifth Movement
6.1
1981
Why Not?
Jyosyuya
6.8
1955
The Wolves
7.3
1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5
7.6
1962
Foundry Town
Matsunaga
7.1
1977
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
6.5
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rokusuke
2.0
1970
The Revelation of a Geisha
6.4
1987
Zegen
Shimada
6.1
1966
Violence at Noon
School director
1987
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
7.0
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
7.5
1973
Stray Dog
6.0
1977
Case of the Disjointed Murder
7.6
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
8.5
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
7.4
1968
Kuroneko
Farmer
1.0
1966
The Little Runaway
6.5
1951
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
6.8
1953
Tower of Lilies
6.5
1955
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
7.9
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
Isao Hori
5.0
1954
The End of a Day
6.8
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
6.6
1956
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
6.6
1958
Endless Desire
Ramen shop owner
5.5
1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1955
If Indeed One Loves
Bartender (segment 1)
6.5
1974
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
5.4
1967
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
4.2
1977
Eros Eterna
6.5
1950
Town of Violence
Ango Shindo
7.8
1977
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
8.0
1960
The Naked Island
Senta
1984
The Horizon
Tanimoto
6.3
1985
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
6.3
1963
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
6.3
1972
The Rendezvous
Murai
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1980
Nurse's Husband
8.0
1984
Location
Inumaru
7.0
1954
Ditch
7.2
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
1.0
1975
Pimp Heaven
Preacher
6.0
1956
Dotanba
7.1
1952
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
1962
Season of Farewell
7.2
1971
Silence
Prison guard
6.8
1962
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
8.0
1953
Miniature
Yamada
8.0
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
4.7
1972
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
7.0
1964
The Desperate
Chief Osawa
1973
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
1961
Police Precinct Part 17
7.3
1965
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
1954
Turbid Youth
7.0
1989
Thousand Cranes
7.0
1964
The Irresponsible Fool
5.4
1968
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
6.0
1969
Heat Wave Island
7.5
1974
The Homeless
1960
Wait for Tomorrow
Inosuke Uematsu
5.9
1971
King of Pornography
1941
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Rokuzô Ôkuma
6.3
1972
Hymn
Harumatsu
5.3
1982
Irezumi
Horiatsu
6.2
1974
Street of Joy
Kofukuya's Owner
1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
6.0
1973
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
6.4
1959
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
1966
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
6.3
1963
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
7.0
1971
Onna no Iji
Nakano
6.5
1966
Captive's Island
6.8
1956
Our Town
Shime
1965
The Start of Life
4.2
1973
Time Within Memory
1951
The White Orchid
1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1952
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
5.7
1974
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
5.0
1959
The Human Wall
1968
Strong Women, Weak Men
Zenzo
7.0
1985
Song of the Spring Pony
1966
The Betrayers Out!
1951
Izayoi kaidō
5.7
1974
The Last Swordsman
1956
Actress
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
4.5
1972
Dear Summer Sister
Takuzo Sakurada
1961
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
1972
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
8.0
1952
Sisters of Nishijin
3.9
1983
Oiran
Hachibei
1954
Wakai hito-tachi
1957
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
1977
Tomorrow Evening
1962
The Young and Bad
1960
Sixteen years old
1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
5.6
1972
The Iron Crown
Physiognomist
4.1
1981
Day Dream
Guard
5.7
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
5.7
1986
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
6.9
1970
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1961
Futaridake no taiyō
1963
The School Cap
1962
The King
6.0
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1973
Deeper Than Blue
Shunkai
1968
East China Sea
1959
Tokyo no Kodoku
1960
Irohanihoheto
1950
Spring Snow
Yasuji
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
1960
The Cards Will Tell
1971
King of the Widow-Killers
6.0
1965
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1981
Tetsugen
1977
Seasonal Wind
1973
Hell Riders in Kyoto
6.6
1962
Human
Kamegoro
6.0
1970
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
7.0
1973
Love Lost in Tears
1962
I am the Judge
1957
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Senkichi Hanamura
1957
Harbor Rats
1976
Hobo General
5.0
1970
Attack at Daylight
Saeki
1975
Scoundrel Boss
1959
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
5.3
1972
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
1962
Farm Girls
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
Secret
6.0
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Masumura
1962
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
5.0
1970
Yukyo-retsuden
1962
Nippon no obaachan
6.0
1948
Temptation
1961
Shōjo
2.0
1979
The Fall of Teenager
1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
1963
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
4.0
1973
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
5.0
1985
Nuclear Gypsies
2.0
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
6.6
1963
18 Roughs
Murata
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
1955
The Beauty and the Dragon
1954
Koina no Ginpei
7.2
1964
A Story from Echigo
1968
Wind of Youth
1953
Murahachibu
1976
A Cheerful Yakuza
1969
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1973
A Woman’s Road
1962
Hageshī kawa
7.0
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
5.0
1970
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
6.0
1974
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
1956
快傑耶茶坊
1983
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
1962
Fresh Leaves
Zenkichi Segawa
1957
Muhō Ichidai
1978
幽霊列車
1953
Reminiscence
1959
Talented Woman
1959
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Detective Machida
1948
Great X
Matsushita
1951
限りなき情熱
2.0
1977
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1983
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1980
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
10.0
1982
On the Road
6.3
1973
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1966
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
8.0
1957
Temptation
Tobe
1953
Yokubo
6.8
1963
Mother
Tajima
1961
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1960
One Passed Through Hell
1968
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1959
Whistling in the morning
6.8
1955
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
5.0
1965
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
7.8
1973
The Heart
S's Father
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
1979
Golden Partners
Bend master
5.7
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1982
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1958
Hobo Village
1969
Gokudô Petenshi
3.3
1974
The Key
1987
River of Fireflies
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
1960
Knock Down
7.1
1965
An Innocent Witch
7.0
1958
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
1956
The Shadow of Fear
6.9
1988
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
7.3
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
1989
War and Flowers
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
1952
Violence
1955
Three Faces
1969
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
5.7
1959
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
6.0
1957
The Champion
Pote-chan
1975
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
1954
Cape Ashizuri
1976
Two Harmonicas
1967
Libido
6.0
1974
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
1972
The Lucky Status Symbol
7.5
1988
Tomorrow
Storekeeper
1970
Hooligans on Buggies
1960
Internees of Kampili
7.0
1956
Love is Lost
Gensaku
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
1972
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
1958
Underwater Murder
7.5
1977
The Far Road
1966
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
1966
Black Curtain
2.0
1978
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
1961
でかんしょ風来坊
1980
Child of the Sun
1980
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
1962
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1951
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
The Man from the Moon
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
1979
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1960
Storming Squadron
1948
Shachō to onna tenin
1953
Before Dawn
Risaburo
1963
Violent Street
1979
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
1975
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1962
Song of a Traveller
1961
Blind Devotion
Hikozo
1961
Love's Family Tree
1960
Yakuza sensei
1978
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1963
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1964
Onibaba : Film Location
1983
Sacred Koya
1965