Taiji Tonoyama
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.
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- Born:
- Oct 17, 1915
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 216
- First Appeared:
- Movie Black Rain 1989-05-13
- Latest Project:
- In the movie The Battle of Kawanakajima 1941-11-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Black Rain | 1989-05-13 | |
| Movie | Sakura-tai Chiru | 1988-04-01 | |
| Movie | Tomorrow | Storekeeper | 1988-08-13 |
| Movie | Tokyo Pop | 1988-04-15 | |
| Movie | River of Fireflies | 1987-02-21 | |
| Movie | Hawaiian Dream | Shokichi Shimamura | 1987-08-29 |
| Movie | Zegen | 1987-06-02 | |
| Movie | Hachiko | Hashimoto | 1987-08-01 |
| Movie | Tree Without Leaves | 1986-11-15 | |
| Movie | Jazz Daimyo | Gensai | 1986-04-19 |
| Movie | The Seburi Story | Kamezo | 1985-05-11 |
| Movie | Location | 1984-09-22 | |
| Movie | Dark Room | 1983-09-17 | |
| Movie | The Ballad of Narayama | Teruyan | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha | 1983-03-25 | |
| Movie | Legend of the Eight Samurai | 1983-12-10 | |
| Movie | Tora-san, the Expert | 1982-12-28 | |
| Movie | Irezumi | Horiatsu | 1982-11-27 |
| Movie | On the Road | 1982-04-17 | |
| Movie | A Pool Without Water | Pharmacist | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | Yokohama BJ Blues | 1981-04-25 | |
| Movie | Tetsugen | 1981-01-01 | |
| Movie | Why Not? | Jyosyuya | 1981-01-08 |
| Movie | Fruits of Passion | Customer | 1981-06-03 |
| Movie | Fifth Movement | 1981-09-19 | |
| Movie | Day Dream | 1981-09-12 | |
| Movie | Muddy River | Man on festival boat | 1981-01-30 |
| Movie | Edo Porn | Tattooist | 1981-09-12 |
| Movie | Child of the Sun | 1980-09-13 | |
| Movie | Nurse's Husband | 1980-05-10 | |
| Movie | Until Evening | Restaurant's Owner | 1980-09-20 |
| Movie | Golden Partners | 1979-04-28 | |
| Movie | Vengeance Is Mine | Tanejiro Shibata | 1979-04-21 |
| Movie | The Fall of Teenager | 1979-02-24 | |
| Movie | The Strangling | 1979-06-02 | |
| Movie | Faraway Tomorrow | 1979-11-03 | |
| Movie | Tora-san's Dream of Spring | 1979-12-28 | |
| Movie | Empire of Passion | Toichiro | 1978-09-06 |
| Movie | Love and Faith | 1978-06-03 | |
| Movie | Ballad of Orin | Mountain Man | 1977-11-19 |
| Movie | Tomorrow Evening | 1977-10-29 | |
| Movie | The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro | 1977-09-17 | |
| Movie | The Far Road | 1977-09-11 | |
| Movie | Seasonal Wind | 1977-07-16 | |
| Movie | Eros Eterna | 1977-06-25 | |
| Movie | Case of the Disjointed Murder | 1977-03-14 | |
| Movie | The Gate of Youth Part 2 | 1977-02-11 | |
| Movie | In the Realm of the Senses | 1976-09-15 | |
| Movie | Hobo General | 1976-04-24 | |
| Movie | Housewife's Experience: Tenement | Harukichi | 1975-04-26 |
| Movie | A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse | Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager) | 1975-01-29 |
| Movie | Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 | 1975-07-23 | |
| Movie | Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment | 1975-12-24 | |
| Movie | Evening Primrose | Genji's father | 1974-12-28 |
| Movie | The Last Swordsman | 1974-11-02 | |
| Movie | The Castle of Sand | Publican at Ebisu | 1974-10-19 |
| Movie | The Homeless | 1974-10-09 | |
| Movie | Red Light District: Gonna Get Out | Kofukuya's Owner | 1974-09-21 |
| Movie | My Way | Yoshizo Kawamura | 1974-09-07 |
| Movie | The Key | 1974-05-04 | |
| Movie | Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya | Tonomura | 1974-04-09 |
| Movie | Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama | Sex Show Manager | 1974-01-26 |
| Movie | Time Within Memory | 1973-02-24 | |
| Movie | Deeper Than Blue | Shunkai | 1973-02-10 |
| Movie | Sex and Fury | Tokuzô Kasai | 1973-02-17 |
| Movie | Did the Red Bird Escape? | 1973-02-17 | |
| Movie | Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa | Ippei | 1973-02-21 |
| Movie | Love Lost in Tears | 1973-08-11 | |
| Movie | Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer | Shimamura | 1973-04-07 |
| Movie | A Woman’s Road | 1973-04-14 | |
| Movie | Hell Riders in Kyoto | 1973-04-28 | |
| Movie | Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby | Shimamura | 1973-06-23 |
| Movie | Stray Dog | 1973-09-29 | |
| Movie | The Heart | 1973-10-27 | |
| Movie | The Erotomaniac Daimyo | 1972-04-26 | |
| Movie | The Rendezvous | Murai | 1972-03-29 |
| Series | Ai yori aoku | 俊界和尚 | 1972-04-03 |
| Movie | The Iron Crown | Physiognomist | 1972-04-22 |
| Movie | Turtle Geisha | Ishibashi | 1972-07-03 |
| Movie | The Lucky Status Symbol | 1972-06-09 | |
| Movie | Dear Summer Sister | 1972-08-05 | |
| Movie | The Now Girl | Nomura | 1972-11-18 |
| Movie | Hymn | Harumatsu | 1972-12-29 |
| Movie | Silence | Prison guard | 1971-11-13 |
| Movie | Evil Spirits in the Darkness | 1971-06-07 | |
| Movie | The Ceremony | 1971-05-18 | |
| Movie | Onna no Iji | Nakano | 1971-05-05 |
| Movie | The Widow Killer | 1971-02-25 | |
| Movie | Yukyo-retsuden | 1970-07-04 | |
| Movie | Attack at Daylight | Saeki | 1970-02-08 |
| Movie | Strange Affinity | 1970-06-03 | |
| Movie | The Revelation of a Geisha | 1970-08-14 | |
| Movie | The Kingpin of Fair Ladies | 1970-09-09 | |
| Movie | Hooligans on Buggies | 1970-10-29 | |
| Movie | Live Today, Die Tomorrow! | 1970-10-31 | |
| Movie | East China Sea | 1968-10-05 | |
| Movie | Three Resurrected Drunkards | Old man | 1968-03-30 |
| Movie | Kuroneko | A Farmer | 1968-02-24 |
| Movie | The House of the Sleeping Virgins | 1968-01-31 | |
| Movie | Japanese Summer: Double Suicide | 1967-09-02 | |
| Movie | Libido | 1967-06-28 | |
| Movie | Dynamite Doctor | Chairman | 1966-06-04 |
| Movie | The Betrayers Out! | 1966-01-15 | |
| Movie | The Pornographers | 1966-03-12 | |
| Movie | Kokoro no sanmyaku | 1966-02-02 | |
| Movie | Captive's Island | 1966-07-02 | |
| Movie | The Little Runaway | 1966-12-24 | |
| Movie | Violence at Noon | School director | 1966-07-15 |
| Movie | Lost Sex | Gonpachi | 1966-08-27 |
| Movie | Drunken Harbor | Doctor | 1966-12-24 |
| Movie | Conquest | Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura | 1965-11-21 |
| Movie | An Innocent Witch | 1965-10-30 | |
| Movie | Seisaku's Wife | Retired man | 1965-06-25 |
| Movie | The Start of Life | 1965-04-29 | |
| Movie | Onibaba | Ushi | 1964-11-21 |
| Movie | Intentions of Murder | 1964-06-28 | |
| Movie | Samurai from Nowhere | 1964-05-20 | |
| Movie | A Story from Echigo | 1964-05-09 | |
| Movie | The Irresponsible Fool | 1964-04-29 | |
| Movie | 18 Roughs | Murata | 1963-09-11 |
| Movie | Beyond the Green Hills | 1963-01-03 | |
| Movie | Black Report | 1963-01-13 | |
| Movie | Kanto Wanderer | Boss Izu | 1963-11-23 |
| Movie | Bamboo Doll of Echizen | Monk | 1963-10-05 |
| Movie | Mother | Tajima | 1963-11-08 |
| Movie | The Insect Woman | Foreman | 1963-11-16 |
| Movie | The School Cap | 1963-12-15 | |
| Movie | Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow | Matsunaga | 1962-04-08 |
| Movie | 大吉ぼんのう鏡 | 1962-01-03 | |
| Movie | Nippon no obaachan | 1962-01-03 | |
| Movie | Season of Farewell | 1962-01-14 | |
| Movie | Stolen Pleasure | Goro | 1962-03-14 |
| Movie | Tales of President Mito | President Toyotomi | 1962-04-04 |
| Movie | Akitsu Springs | 1962-06-15 | |
| Movie | Song of a Traveller | 1962-05-20 | |
| Movie | The Young and Bad | 1962-09-09 | |
| Movie | Fresh Leaves | Zenkichi Segawa | 1962-10-06 |
| Movie | Chibusa o daku musume tachi | 1962-10-07 | |
| Movie | Human | Kamegoro | 1962-11-04 |
| Movie | The King | 1962-11-23 | |
| Movie | Love's Family Tree | 1961-11-22 | |
| Movie | Blind Devotion | Hikozo | 1961-03-08 |
| Movie | Pigs and Battleships | Chen | 1961-01-21 |
| Movie | The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 | Kotani | 1961-01-09 |
| Movie | Knock Down | 1960-03-20 | |
| Movie | The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 | 1960-08-07 | |
| Movie | Internees of Kampili | 1960-09-29 | |
| Movie | Wait for Tomorrow | Inosuke Uematsu | 1960-10-26 |
| Movie | The Naked Island | Senta, the father | 1960-11-23 |
| Movie | The Prickly Mouthed Geisha | Kumakichi Takeda | 1959-12-06 |
| Movie | My Second Brother | Hemmi Gengoro | 1959-10-28 |
| Movie | The Human Wall | 1959-10-18 | |
| Movie | Four Hours of Terror | Teppei Sasada | 1959-09-30 |
| Movie | Good Morning | Oshiuri no Otoko | 1959-05-12 |
| Movie | Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan | 1959-03-29 | |
| Movie | Lucky Dragon No. 5 | 1959-02-18 | |
| Movie | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959-01-15 | |
| Movie | Hobo Village | 1958-01-29 | |
| Movie | Wind, Woman and Road | Kenta | 1958-04-14 |
| Movie | Night Drum | 1958-04-15 | |
| Movie | The Boy Who Came Back | детектив Мацумото | 1958-06-29 |
| Movie | Underwater Murder | 1958-07-27 | |
| Movie | Endless Desire | Ramen shop owner | 1958-11-18 |
| Movie | The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow | Masumura | 1958-09-02 |
| Movie | On This Earth | Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle | 1957-11-22 |
| Movie | Temptation | Tobe | 1957-09-22 |
| Movie | Harbor Rats | 1957-08-21 | |
| Movie | A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era | Kurazo | 1957-07-14 |
| Movie | Who's The Real Killer | Frank | 1957-07-03 |
| Movie | The Champion | Pote-chan | 1957-05-01 |
| Movie | Birth of a Jazz Maiden | Senkichi Hanamura | 1957-04-03 |
| Movie | Shiawase wa doko ni | Shokichi | 1956-07-19 |
| Movie | Love is Lost | Gensaku | 1956-02-05 |
| Movie | Darkness at Noon | Uhei Matsumura | 1956-03-26 |
| Movie | 快傑耶茶坊 | 1956-04-18 | |
| Movie | The Shadow of Fear | 1956-09-11 | |
| Movie | Our Town | Shime | 1956-08-28 |
| Movie | Nikoyon monogatari | 1956-09-11 | |
| Movie | Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers | Doctor Otsuki | 1956-11-07 |
| Movie | Dotanba | 1956-11-10 | |
| Movie | Actress | 1956-11-27 | |
| Movie | Policeman's Diary, Part 2 | 1955-11-16 | |
| Movie | Three Faces | 1955-08-09 | |
| Movie | Ai Sureba Koso | Bartender (segment 1) | 1955-07-05 |
| Movie | The Wolves | 1955-07-03 | |
| Movie | Burden of Love | Mr. Yamaguchi | 1955-03-18 |
| Movie | Policeman's Diary | Patrolman Kuramochi | 1955-02-03 |
| Movie | The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes | 1955-01-09 | |
| Movie | Cape Ashizuri | 1954-05-18 | |
| Movie | The End of a Day | 1954-02-03 | |
| Movie | Dorodarake no seishun | 1954-09-21 | |
| Movie | The Street Without Sun | Gen'ichi Inoue | 1954-06-24 |
| Movie | The Ditch | 1954-07-27 | |
| Movie | Gate of Hell | Kakisuke | 1953-10-30 |
| Movie | Before Dawn | Risaburo | 1953-10-13 |
| Movie | Miniature | Yamada | 1953-04-01 |
| Movie | Reminiscence | 1953-01-15 | |
| Movie | Tower of Lilies | 1953-01-09 | |
| Movie | Children of Hiroshima | Owner of a ship | 1952-08-06 |
| Movie | Sisters of Nishijin | 1952-04-17 | |
| Movie | Dedication of the Great Buddha | 1952-03-20 | |
| Movie | Clothes of Deception | 1951-01-13 | |
| Movie | The White Orchid | 1951-03-24 | |
| Movie | Who Will Judge Me? | 1951-05-18 | |
| Movie | Story of a Beloved Wife | 1951-09-07 | |
| Movie | 十六夜街道 | 1951-12-14 | |
| Movie | Scandal | Aoye's friend | 1950-04-30 |
| Movie | Street of Violence | Ango Shindo | 1950-02-26 |
| Movie | Ishimatsu of the Forest | Waretsuku | 1949-06-04 |
| Movie | The Most Beautiful Day of My Life | 1948-09-26 | |
| Movie | Great X | Matsushita | 1948-05-07 |
| Movie | Drunken Angel | Shop Proprietor | 1948-04-27 |
| Movie | Temptation | 1948-04-01 | |
| Movie | The Ball at the Anjo House | Yoshida | 1947-09-27 |
| Movie | Record of a Tenement Gentleman | Photographer | 1947-05-20 |
| Movie | The Battle of Kawanakajima | Rokuzô Ôkuma | 1941-11-30 |