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 (301)
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Hachiko
Hashimoto
Good Morning
Pushy Man
Fruits of Passion
Customer
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
Kuroneko
Farmer
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
Irezumi
Horiatsu
The Insect Woman
Foreman
Onibaba
Ushi
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
The Naked Island
Senta
Black Rain
Old Priest
The Pornographers
Father
Edo Porn
Tattooist
Night Drum
1958
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
Eijanaika
Jyosyuya
The Ceremony
Old Chief
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
Silence
Prison guard
Dark Room
Doctor(医師)
Scandal
Aoye's friend
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
Zegen
Shimada
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
Hymn
Harumatsu
Foundry Town
Matsunaga
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
The Legendary Hell
Daihachi
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
Pimp Heaven
Preacher
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
Dear Summer Sister
Takuzo Sakurada
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
Oiran
Hachibei
Kanawa
Physiognomist
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Violence at Noon
School director
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
Love and Faith
1978
Day Dream
Guard
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
The Homeless
1974
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
Cape Ashizuri
1954
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
Wait for Tomorrow
Inosuke Uematsu
Yakuza sensei
1960
Endless Desire
Ramen shop owner
The Tale of Genji
Priest
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
Tree Without Leaves
1986
Stray Dog
1973
Time Within Memory
1973
Street of Joy
Kofukuya's Owner
The Rendezvous
Murai
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rokusuke
Tomorrow
Storekeeper
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
Strong Women, Weak Men
Zenzo
Women of Ginza
1955
Mother
Tajima
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
Eros Eterna
1977
Captive's Island
1966
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
The Strangling
1979
Murahachibu
1953
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Ghost Train
1978
The Start of Life
1965
The Far Road
1977
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Senkichi Hanamura
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Champion
Pote-chan
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
Our Town
Shime
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
Hobo General
1976
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
River of Fireflies
1987
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Yokohama BJ Blues
Isao Hori
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
The Heart
S's Father
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
Location
Inumaru
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
Tower of Lilies
1953
The Little Runaway
1966
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
1979
Turbid Youth
1954
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
The Wolves
1955
The King
1962
Fresh Leaves
Zenkichi Segawa
If Indeed One Loves
Bartender (segment 1)
Who's the Real Killer
Frank
Wind of Youth
1968
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
Miniature
Yamada
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
Whistling in the Morning
1959
Temptation
Tobe
Deeper Than Blue
Shunkai
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
Actress
1956
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
The Human Wall
1959
Dotanba
1956
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
Town of Violence
Ango Shindo
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
War and Flowers
1989
Great X
Matsushita
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
Human
Kamegoro
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
A Woman’s Road
1973
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
Freedom School
1951
Irohanihoheto
1960
Desire
1953
The Young and Bad
1962
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
Violence
1952
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1952
18 Roughs
Murata
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
Scoundrel Boss
1975
The Horizon
Tanimoto
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
The Last Trump Card
Seitaro Koshimura
The School Cap
1963
An Innocent Witch
1965
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
Farm Girls
Kuranosuke
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
Onna no Iji
Nakano
Tetsugen
1981
The White Orchid
1951
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Temptation
1948
Talented Woman
1959
The End of a Day
1954
Season of Farewell
1962
Sixteen years old
1960
Magistrate of the Floating World
1981
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Masumura
Ditch
1954
Taki no Shiraito
Fukuichi
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
Child of the Sun
1980
The Key
1974
The Desperate
Chief Osawa
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
King of Pornography
1971
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
限りなき情熱
1951
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
Violent Street
1963
The Last Swordsman
1974
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
Storming Squadron
1960
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
Raised on an Island
1963
Attack at Daylight
Saeki
East China Sea
1968
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
The Famous Wanderer
1961
Tomorrow Evening
1977
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Rokuzô Ôkuma
Before the Dawn
Risaburo
Heat Wave Island
1969
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Blind Devotion
Hikozo
The End of the War
1950
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
Libido
1967
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
Hageshī kawa
1962
Strange Affinity
1970
The Three Faces
Gen
Snowy Night Duel
1954
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
Izayoi kaidō
1951
Harbor Rats
1957
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Tokuichi Ōnuma
The Boy Who Came Back
Detective Shimamoto
Love is Lost
Gensaku
Knock Down
1960
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
Reminiscence
1953
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Detective Machida
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
Seasonal Wind
1977
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
Song of a Traveller
1962
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
Koina no Ginpei
1954
Internees of Kampili
1960
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Shōjo
1961
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Golden Partners
Bend master
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
Thousand Cranes
1989
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
Fifth Movement
1981
Love Lost in Tears
1973
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
Spring Snow
Yasuji
I am the Judge
1962
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
Escape and the Law
1965
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
Sisters
1955
One Passed Through Hell
1960
Two Harmonicas
1976
Love's Family Tree
1961
Secret
1960
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
Hanayome no teikō
Yoshimaro Akiyama
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
Black Curtain
1966
The Man from the Moon
1951
Sacred Koya
1983
