Taiji Tonoyama

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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Movies starring Taiji Tonoyama (276)

Thousand Cranes (1989)
Black Rain (1989)

Priest

War and Flowers (1989)
Tomorrow (1988)

Storekeeper

Tokyo Pop (1988)

Grandfather

Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
Hawaiian Dream (1987)

Shokichi Shimamura

Hachiko (1987)

Hashimoto

Zegen (1987)

Shimada

River of Fireflies (1987)
Tree Without Leaves (1986)
Jazz Daimyo (1986)

Gensai

The Seburi Story (1985)

Kamezo

Nuclear Gypsies (1985)
Song of the Spring Pony (1985)
Location (1984)

Inumaru

The Horizon (1984)

Tanimoto

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)

Hikojii

Dark Room (1983)

Doctor(医師)

The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Teruyan

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha (1983)
The Bored Samurai (1983)

Father Of Ogin

Oiran (1983)

Hachibei

Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
Irezumi (1982)

Horiatsu

A Ghost Love Story of Japan (1982)
On the Road (1982)
A Pool Without Water (1982)

Pharmacist

Fifth Movement (1981)
Day Dream (1981)

Guard

Edo Porn (1981)

Tattooist

Fruits of Passion (1981)

Customer

Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)

Isao Hori

Muddy River (1981)

Man On Festival Boat

Eijanaika (1981)

Jyosyuya

Tetsugen (1981)
Daughter of Time (1980)

Fireworks Hand 2

Until Evening (1980)

Restaurant's Owner

Child of the Sun (1980)
Nurse's Husband (1980)
Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)
Faraway Tomorrow (1979)
The Strangling (1979)
Golden Partners (1979)

Bend Master

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Tanejiro Shibata

The Fall of Teenager (1979)
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo (1978)
Empire of Passion (1978)

Toichiro

Love and Faith (1978)
Junko's Bliss (1978)

Taizô Sakata

Ghost Train (1978)
Ballad of Orin (1977)

Mountain Man

Tomorrow Evening (1977)
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977)
The Far Road (1977)
Seasonal Wind (1977)
Eros Eterna (1977)
Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)
The Gate of Youth Part 2 (1977)
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow (1977)

Sôiku

Two Harmonicas (1976)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Old Beggar

Hobo General (1976)
A Cheerful Yakuza (1976)
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment (1975)

Kinetarô Kitamura

Scoundrel Boss (1975)
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 (1975)

The Master

Pimp Heaven (1975)

Preacher

Housewife's Experience: Tenement (1975)

Harukichi

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)

Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-House Manager)

Evening Primrose (1974)

Genji's Father

The Last Swordsman (1974)
The Castle of Sand (1974)

Publican At Ebisu

The Homeless (1974)
Street of Joy (1974)

Kofukuya's Owner

My Way (1974)

Yoshizo Kawamura

The Key (1974)
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya (1974)

Tonomura

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama (1974)

Sex Show Manager

The Heart (1973)

S's Father

Stray Dog (1973)
Love Lost in Tears (1973)
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973)

Shimamura

Hell Riders in Kyoto (1973)
A Woman’s Road (1973)
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)

Shimamura

Time Within Memory (1973)
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa (1973)

Ippei

Sex and Fury (1973)

Tokuzô Kasai

Did the Red Bird Escape? (1973)
Deeper Than Blue (1973)

Shunkai

Hymn (1972)

Harumatsu

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window (1972)

Nomura

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972)
Dear Summer Sister (1972)

Takuzo Sakurada

It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!! (1972)
Turtle Geisha (1972)

Ishibashi

The Lucky Status Symbol (1972)
The Erotomaniac Daimyo (1972)
The Iron Crown (1972)

Physiognomist

The Rendezvous (1972)

Murai

Silence (1971)

Prison Guard

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971)
Evil Spirits in the Darkness (1971)
The Ceremony (1971)

Old Chief

Onna no Iji (1971)

Nakano

King of Pornography (1971)
King of the Widow-Killers (1971)
Evil Spirits of Japan (1970)

Pachinko Owner

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
Hooligans on Buggies (1970)
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies (1970)
The Revelation of a Geisha (1970)
Yukyo-retsuden (1970)
Strange Affinity (1970)
Attack at Daylight (1970)

Saeki

Gokudô Petenshi (1969)
Heat Wave Island (1969)
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys! (1969)
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting (1969)
Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Higa

East China Sea (1968)
Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)

Zenzo

Wind of Youth (1968)
Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

Old Man

Kuroneko (1968)

Farmer

The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Libido (1967)
Drunken Harbor (1966)

Doctor

The Little Runaway (1966)
Lost Sex (1966)

Gonpachi

Violence at Noon (1966)

School Director

Captive's Island (1966)
Dynamite Doctor (1966)

Chairman

The Pornographers (1966)

Father

Black Curtain (1966)
Kokoro no sanmyaku (1966)
The Betrayers Out! (1966)
Conquest (1965)

Yamashiro-No-Kami Munemura

An Innocent Witch (1965)
Seisaku's Wife (1965)

Retired Man

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965)
The Start of Life (1965)
Onibaba (1964)

Ushi

Intentions of Murder (1964)

Beret Musician

A Story from Echigo (1964)
The Irresponsible Fool (1964)
The Desperate (1964)

Chief Osawa

Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
Onibaba : Film Location (1964)
Kiri ni Kieta Hito (1963)
The School Cap (1963)
Kanto Wanderer (1963)

Boss Izu

The Insect Woman (1963)

Foreman

Mother (1963)

Tajima

Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)

Monk

18 Roughs (1963)

Murata

Black Report (1963)

Shinsaku Tsuda

Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
The King (1962)
Human (1962)

Kamegoro

Farm Girls (1962)
Hageshī kawa (1962)
Fresh Leaves (1962)

Zenkichi Segawa

The Young and Bad (1962)
Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Rokusuke

Song of a Traveller (1962)
Foundry Town (1962)

Matsunaga

Tales of President Mito (1962)

President Toyotomi

Stolen Pleasure (1962)

Goro

I am the Judge (1962)
Season of Farewell (1962)
Nippon no obaachan (1962)
Love's Family Tree (1961)
Police Precinct Part 17 (1961)
Blind Devotion (1961)

Hikozo

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman (1961)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)

Chen

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 (1961)

Kotani

My Hometown is the Wild West (1960)
The Naked Island (1960)

Senta

Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)
Wait for Tomorrow (1960)

Inosuke Uematsu

Sixteen years old (1960)
Internees of Kampili (1960)
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 (1960)
A Woman’s Uphill Slope (1960)
Irohanihoheto (1960)
One Passed Through Hell (1960)
Secret (1960)
Knock Down (1960)
The Cards Will Tell (1960)
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha (1959)

Kumakichi Takeda

My Second Brother (1959)

Hemmi Gengoro

The Human Wall (1959)
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black (1959)

Detective Machida

Four Hours of Terror (1959)

Teppei Sasada

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene (1959)
Good Morning (1959)

Pushy Man

Tokyo no Kodoku (1959)
Talented Woman (1959)
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)
Whistling in the Morning (1959)
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Endless Desire (1958)

Ramen Shop Owner

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (1958)

Masumura

Underwater Murder (1958)
The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

Detective Shimamoto

Night Drum (1958)
Wind, Woman and Road (1958)

Kenta

Hobo Village (1958)
On This Earth (1957)

Yajiro, Heiichiro's Uncle

Temptation (1957)

Tobe

Harbor Rats (1957)
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

Kurazo

Who's the Real Killer (1957)

Frank

The Champion (1957)

Pote-Chan

Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)

Senkichi Hanamura

Muhō Ichidai (1957)
Actress (1956)
Dotanba (1956)
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)

Doctor Otsuki

Nikoyon monogatari (1956)
The Shadow of Fear (1956)
Our Town (1956)

Shime

Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)

Shokichi

Darkness at Noon (1956)

Uhei Matsumura

Love is Lost (1956)

Gensaku

Policeman's Diary, Part 2 (1955)
The Beauty and the Dragon (1955)
Three Faces (1955)
If Indeed One Loves (1955)

Bartender (Segment 1)

The Wolves (1955)
Sisters (1955)
Burden of Love (1955)

Mr. Yamaguchi

Policeman's Diary (1955)

Patrolman Kuramochi

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes (1955)
Turbid Youth (1954)
The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)
Ditch (1954)
The Street Without Sun (1954)

Gen'ichi Inoue

Cape Ashizuri (1954)
The End of a Day (1954)
Koina no Ginpei (1954)
Gate of Hell (1953)

Kakisuke

Before Dawn (1953)

Risaburo

Yokubo (1953)
Miniature (1953)

Yamada

Murahachibu (1953)
Reminiscence (1953)
Tower of Lilies (1953)
Today is Payday (1952)

President Of Akabane Construction

Violence (1952)
Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Owner Of A Ship

Sisters of Nishijin (1952)
Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952)
Izayoi kaidō (1951)
Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)
The Tale of Genji (1951)

Priest

Who Will Judge Me? (1951)
The White Orchid (1951)
Clothes of Deception (1951)

Kasama

Scandal (1950)

Aoye's Friend

Town of Violence (1950)

Ango Shindo

Spring Snow (1950)

Yasuji

Ishimatsu of the Forest (1949)

Waretsuku

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)
Great X (1948)

Matsushita

Drunken Angel (1948)

Shop Proprietor

Temptation (1948)
Shachō to onna tenin (1948)
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)

Yoshida

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)

Photographer

The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

Rokuzô Ôkuma

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