Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
Born: October 17, 1915 · Kobe, Japon
Died: April 30, 1989 (aged 73)
Highest Rated
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
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Onibaba
1964
Good Morning
1959
Drunken Angel
1948
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Kuroneko
1968
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
Hachiko
1987
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
The Naked Island
1960
Empire of Passion
1978
Black Rain
1989
Photos (2)
Movies (299)
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
Irezumi
Horiatsu
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Edo Porn
Tattooist
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
Onibaba
Ushi
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Fruits of Passion
Customer
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
Hachiko
Hashimoto
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
The Naked Island
Senta
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Good Morning
Pushy Man
Captive's Island
1966
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
Oiran
Hachibei
Black Rain
Old Priest
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
The Last Trump Card
Seitaro Koshimura
Farm Girls
Kuranosuke
Kuroneko
Farmer
Violent Street
1963
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
The Insect Woman
Foreman
Silence
Prison guard
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
Zegen
Shimada
Day Dream
Guard
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
Golden Partners
Bend master
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
Song of a Traveller
1962
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
Snowy Night Duel
1954
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
An Innocent Witch
1965
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
Tree Without Leaves
1986
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
The Pornographers
Father
Street of Joy
Kofukuya's Owner
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Blind Devotion
Hikozo
Yokohama BJ Blues
Isao Hori
Before Dawn
Risaburo
Libido
1967
Scandal
Aoye's friend
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
Freedom School
1951
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
Dark Room
Doctor(医師)
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
Endless Desire
Ramen shop owner
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Mother
Tajima
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
Eros Eterna
1977
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
Violence at Noon
School director
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
The Tale of Genji
Priest
Strong Women, Weak Men
Zenzo
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
The Ceremony
Old Chief
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
Kanawa
Physiognomist
A Story from Echigo
1964
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
The King
1962
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rokusuke
Eijanaika
Jyosyuya
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
The Wolves
1955
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
The Rendezvous
Murai
Tower of Lilies
1953
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
Pimp Heaven
Preacher
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
Child of the Sun
1980
Love's Family Tree
1961
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
The Strangling
1979
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
Irohanihoheto
1960
Heat Wave Island
1969
The Homeless
1974
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
The Fall of Teenager
1979
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
River of Fireflies
1987
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Fifth Movement
1981
The White Orchid
1951
Wind of Youth
1968
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
The Horizon
Tanimoto
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Location
Inumaru
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
Tomorrow
Storekeeper
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
If Indeed One Loves
Bartender (segment 1)
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
Ghost Train
1978
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
The Desperate
Chief Osawa
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
I am the Judge
1962
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
Time Within Memory
1973
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
Sixteen years old
1960
Deeper Than Blue
Shunkai
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
Stray Dog
1973
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Senkichi Hanamura
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
Night Drum
1958
King of Pornography
1971
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
Onna no Iji
Nakano
Dear Summer Sister
Takuzo Sakurada
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
Who's the Real Killer
Frank
Temptation
Tobe
The Little Runaway
1966
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
Human
Kamegoro
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
The End of a Day
1954
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
Foundry Town
Matsunaga
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
Hanayome no teikō
Yoshimaro Akiyama
Hymn
Harumatsu
The Champion
Pote-chan
Miniature
Yamada
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
The Boy Who Came Back
Detective Shimamoto
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
Ditch
1954
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
Great X
Matsushita
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Rokuzô Ôkuma
The Human Wall
1959
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
Tetsugen
1981
The End of the War
1950
The Legendary Hell
Daihachi
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Love Lost in Tears
1973
Wait for Tomorrow
Inosuke Uematsu
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Shōjo
1961
Koina no Ginpei
1954
Yakuza sensei
1960
East China Sea
1968
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
Scoundrel Boss
1975
The Far Road
1977
Spring Snow
Yasuji
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
Talented Woman
1959
Turbid Youth
1954
Dotanba
1956
Love and Faith
1978
Attack at Daylight
Saeki
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
The Famous Wanderer
1961
The Last Swordsman
1974
The Young and Bad
1962
The School Cap
1963
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
Actress
1956
Murahachibu
1953
The Key
1974
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
Our Town
Shime
Magistrate of the Floating World
1981
Seasonal Wind
1977
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Masumura
Hageshī kawa
1962
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1952
War and Flowers
1989
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
Storming Squadron
1960
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Detective Machida
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
Sisters
1955
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
限りなき情熱
1951
Hobo General
1976
Escape and the Law
1965
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
Harbor Rats
1957
Cape Ashizuri
1954
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
Temptation
1948
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
The Start of Life
1965
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Sacred Koya
1983
Knock Down
1960
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
Two Harmonicas
1976
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
Reminiscence
1953
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
Tomorrow Evening
1977
Black Curtain
1966
Nippon no obaachan
1962
The Man from the Moon
1951
Fresh Leaves
Zenkichi Segawa
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
Izayoi kaidō
1951
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
Three Faces
1955
18 Roughs
Murata
Town of Violence
Ango Shindo
Internees of Kampili
1960
Taki no Shiraito
Fukuichi
Thousand Cranes
1989
Desire
1953
Raised on an Island
1963
The Heart
S's Father
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
Strange Affinity
1970
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Tokuichi Ōnuma
Love is Lost
Gensaku
A Woman’s Road
1973
Violence
1952
Whistling in the Morning
1959
Secret
1960
Season of Farewell
1962
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
One Passed Through Hell
1960
