
Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
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Acting Credits
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.
Known For
Filmography

Thousand Cranes
1989

War and Flowers
1989

Black Rain
1989
as Old Priest

Tokyo Pop
1988
as Grandfather

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988

Tomorrow
1988
as Storekeeper

Hachiko
1987
as Hashimoto

Zegen
1987
as Shimada

River of Fireflies
1987

Hawaiian Dream
1987
as Shokichi Shimamura

Jazz Daimyo
1986
as Gensai

Tree Without Leaves
1986

Nuclear Gypsies
1985

The Seburi Story
1985
as Kamezo
Song of the Spring Pony
1985

Location
1984
as Inumaru

The Horizon
1984
as Tanimoto

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983

The Ballad of Narayama
1983
as Teruyan

Oiran
1983
as Hachibei

The Bored Samurai
1983
as Father of Ogin

Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
as Hikojii

Dark Room
1983
as Doctor(医師)

Sacred Koya
1983

A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982

Irezumi
1982
as Horiatsu
On the Road
1982

A Pool Without Water
1982
as Pharmacist

Tora-san, the Expert
1982

Fifth Movement
1981

Fruits of Passion
1981
as Customer

Edo Porn
1981
as Tattooist

Muddy River
1981
as Man on Festival Boat

Why Not?
1981
as Jyosyuya

Day Dream
1981
as Guard

Tetsugen
1981

Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
as Isao Hori

Kinagashi Bugyō
1981

Pro Hunter
1981

Child of the Sun
1980
Nurse's Husband
1980

Daughter of Time
1980
as Fireworks Hand 2

Until Evening
1980
as Restaurant's Owner

A-Un
1980

Vengeance Is Mine
1979
as Tanejiro Shibata

Golden Partners
1979
as Bend master

The Strangling
1979

Faraway Tomorrow
1979

The Fall of Teenager
1979

Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979

The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979
as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979

Empire of Passion
1978
as Toichiro

Junko's Bliss
1978
as Taizô Sakata

幽霊列車
1978

Love and Faith
1978

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978

Seasonal Wind
1977

Ballad of Orin
1977
as Mountain Man

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
1977
as Sôiku

Eros Eterna
1977

The Far Road
1977

Tomorrow Evening
1977

Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977

In the Realm of the Senses
1976
as Old Beggar

Hobo General
1976

Two Harmonicas
1976

A Cheerful Yakuza
1976

The Roads Men Travel
1976
as Sone

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975
as Kinetarô Kitamura

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975
as The Master

Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975
as Harukichi

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)

Pimp Heaven
1975
as Preacher

Scoundrel Boss
1975

青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
1974
as Tonomura

Street of Joy
1974
as Kofukuya's Owner

The Castle of Sand
1974
as Publican at Ebisu

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974
as Sex Show Manager

The Key
1974

My Way
1974
as Yoshizo Kawamura

The Last Swordsman
1974

Evening Primrose
1974
as Genji's father

The Homeless
1974

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
as Shimamura

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
as Shimamura

Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973
as Ippei

Sex and Fury
1973
as Tokuzô Kasai

Stray Dog
1973

The Heart
1973
as S's Father

Love Lost in Tears
1973

A Woman’s Road
1973

Deeper Than Blue
1973
as Shunkai

Time Within Memory
1973

Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973

祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
1972

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972

The Iron Crown
1972
as Physiognomist

Dear Summer Sister
1972
as Takuzo Sakurada

The Rendezvous
1972
as Murai

Hymn
1972
as Harumatsu

The Lucky Status Symbol
1972

Turtle Geisha
1972
as Ishibashi

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972
as Nomura

The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972

Ai yori aoku
1972
as 俊界和尚

King of Pornography
1971

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971

The Ceremony
1971
as Old Chief

Silence
1971
as Prison guard

Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971

King of the Widow-Killers
1971

Onna no Iji
1971
as Nakano

Evil Spirits of Japan
1970
as Pachinko owner

Attack at Daylight
1970
as Saeki

Yukyo-retsuden
1970

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970

Hooligans on Buggies
1970

The Revelation of a Geisha
1970

Strange Affinity
1970

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969

Gokudô Petenshi
1969

Heat Wave Island
1969

Kuroneko
1968
as Farmer

Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
as Zenzo

Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
as Old man

East China Sea
1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968

Wind of Youth
1968

Profound Desires of the Gods
1968
as Higa

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967

Libido
1967

Violence at Noon
1966
as School director

Drunken Harbor
1966
as Doctor

Dynamite Doctor
1966
as Chairman

Captive's Island
1966

The Little Runaway
1966

The Betrayers Out!
1966

Lost Sex
1966
as Gonpachi

The Pornographers
1966
as Father

Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966

Black Curtain
1966

Ohanahan
1966
as 溝呂木老人

An Innocent Witch
1965

Conquest
1965
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura

Seisaku's Wife
1965
as Retired Man

The Start of Life
1965

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965

Onibaba
1964
as Ushi

The Desperate
1964
as Chief Osawa

A Story from Echigo
1964

Intentions of Murder
1964
as Beret Musician

The Irresponsible Fool
1964

Samurai from Nowhere
1964

Onibaba : Film Location
1964

The Insect Woman
1963
as Foreman

18 Roughs
1963
as Murata

Black Report
1963
as Shinsaku Tsuda

Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
as Monk

Beyond the Green Hills
1963

Mother
1963
as Tajima

Kanto Wanderer
1963
as Boss Izu

The School Cap
1963

Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963

どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963

Violent Street
1963

I am the Judge
1962

大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962

Foundry Town
1962
as Matsunaga

The King
1962

Human
1962
as Kamegoro

Hageshī kawa
1962

Song of a Traveller
1962

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
as Rokusuke

Chibusa o daku musume tachi
1962

Season of Farewell
1962

Stolen Pleasure
1962
as Goro

Fresh Leaves
1962
as Zenkichi Segawa

Tales of President Mito
1962
as President Toyotomi

The Young and Bad
1962

Nippon no obaachan
1962

Love's Family Tree
1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
as Kotani

Blind Devotion
1961
as Hikozo

Pigs and Battleships
1961
as Chen

Shōjo
1961

Futaridake no taiyō
1961

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961

Police Precinct Part 17
1961

でかんしょ風来坊
1961

The Naked Island
1960
as Senta

Sixteen years old
1960

One Passed Through Hell
1960

Secret
1960

Irohanihoheto
1960

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960

Internees of Kampili
1960

Wait for Tomorrow
1960
as Inosuke Uematsu

Knock Down
1960

The Cards Will Tell
1960

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960

My Hometown is the Wild West
1960

Yakuza sensei
1960

Storming Squadron
1960

Good Morning
1959
as Pushy Man

My Second Brother
1959
as Hemmi Gengoro

Whistling in the morning
1959

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959
as Kumakichi Takeda

Four Hours of Terror
1959
as Teppei Sasada

The Human Wall
1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959

Tokyo no Kodoku
1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959
as Detective Machida

Talented Woman
1959
Underwater Murder
1958

Night Drum
1958

Endless Desire
1958
as Ramen shop owner
Hobo Village
1958

Wind, Woman and Road
1958
as Kenta

The Boy Who Came Back
1958

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
as Masumura

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
as Kurazo

Who's the Real Killer
1957
as Frank

Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
as Senkichi Hanamura

Harbor Rats
1957

The Champion
1957
as Pote-chan

Temptation
1957
as Tobe

On This Earth
1957
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle

Muhō Ichidai
1957

Dotanba
1956
快傑耶茶坊
1956

Our Town
1956
as Shime

The Shadow of Fear
1956

Darkness at Noon
1956
as Uhei Matsumura

Love is Lost
1956
as Gensaku

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956
as Doctor Otsuki

Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
as Shokichi

Nikoyon monogatari
1956

Actress
1956

Three Faces
1955

Policeman's Diary
1955
as Patrolman Kuramochi

The Wolves
1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955

Burden of Love
1955
as Mr. Yamaguchi

Ai Sureba Koso
1955
as Bartender (segment 1)

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955

The Beauty and the Dragon
1955

Sisters
1955

Turbid Youth
1954

Koina no Ginpei
1954

Ditch
1954

Cape Ashizuri
1954

The End of a Day
1954

The Street Without Sun
1954
as Gen'ichi Inoue

Wakai hito-tachi
1954

The Valley Between Love and Death
1954

Reminiscence
1953

Murahachibu
1953

Gate of Hell
1953
as Kakisuke

Before Dawn
1953
as Risaburo

Tower of Lilies
1953

Miniature
1953
as Yamada

Yokubo
1953

Today is Payday
1952
as President of Akabane Construction

Children of Hiroshima
1952
as Owner of a ship

Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952

Violence
1952

Izayoi kaidō
1951

限りなき情熱
1951

Story of a Beloved Wife
1951

Clothes of Deception
1951
as Kasama

The White Orchid
1951

Who Will Judge Me?
1951

The Tale of Genji
1951
as Priest

The Man from the Moon
1951

Spring Snow
1950
as Yasuji

Scandal
1950
as Aoye's friend

Street of Violence
1950
as Ango Shindo

Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
as Waretsuku
Shachō to onna tenin
1948

Drunken Angel
1948
as Shop Proprietor

Great X
1948
as Matsushita

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948

Temptation
1948

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
as Photographer

The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
as Yoshida

The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
as Rokuzô Ôkuma