Person
Taiji Tonoyama
Acting · 1915–1989 · Kobe, Japon
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
Ohanahan
溝呂木老人
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
Ai yori aoku
俊界和尚
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Pro Hunter
1981
Onibaba
Ushi
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
Fruits of Passion
Customer
An Innocent Witch
1965
Filmography
- 1989Thousand Cranes
- 1989Black RainOld Priest
- 1989War and Flowers
- 1988TomorrowStorekeeper
- 1988Tokyo PopGrandfather
- 1988Sakura-tai Chiru
- 1987Hawaiian DreamShokichi Shimamura
- 1987HachikoHashimoto
- 1987ZegenShimada
- 1987River of Fireflies
- 1986Tree Without Leaves
- 1986Jazz DaimyoGensai
- 1985The Seburi StoryKamezo
- 1985Nuclear Gypsies
- 1985Song of the Spring Pony
- 1984LocationInumaru
- 1984The HorizonTanimoto
- 1984The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- 1983Legend of the Eight SamuraiHikojii
- 1983Dark RoomDoctor(医師)
- 1983The Ballad of NarayamaTeruyan
- 1983Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- 1983The Bored SamuraiFather of Ogin
- 1983OiranHachibei
- 1983Sacred Koya
- 1982Tora-san, the Expert
- 1982IrezumiHoriatsu
- 1982A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- 1982On the Road
- 1982A Pool Without WaterPharmacist
- 1981Fifth Movement
- 1981Edo PornTattooist
- 1981Day DreamGuard
- 1981Fruits of PassionCustomer
- 1981Magistrate of the Floating World
- 1981Kinagashi Bugyō
- 1981Yokohama BJ BluesIsao Hori
- 1981Pro Hunter
- 1981Muddy RiverMan on Festival Boat
- 1981EijanaikaJyosyuya
- 1981Tetsugen
- 1980Daughter of TimeFireworks Hand 2
- 1980Until EveningRestaurant's Owner
- 1980Child of the Sun
- 1980Nurse's Husband
- 1980A-Un
- 1979Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- 1979Faraway Tomorrow
- 1979The Bride of the Ghost LakeGoichi Nishida (village chief)
- 1979The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
- 1979The Strangling
- 1979Golden PartnersBend master
- 1979Vengeance Is MineTanejiro Shibata
- 1979The Fall of Teenager
- 1978Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
- 1978Empire of PassionToichiro
- 1978Love and Faith
- 1978Junko's BlissTaizô Sakata
- 1978Ghost Train
- 1977Ballad of OrinMountain Man
- 1977Tomorrow Evening
- 1977The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- 1977The Far Road
- 1977Seasonal Wind
- 1977Eros Eterna
- 1977Case of the Disjointed Murder
- 1977The Gate of Youth Part 2
- 1977Tissue Paper By the Geisha's PillowSôiku
- 1976Two Harmonicas
- 1976In the Realm of the SensesOld Beggar
- 1976Hobo General
- 1976The Roads Men TravelSone
- 1976A Cheerful Yakuza
- 1975Housewife's Experience: New Tenement ApartmentKinetarô Kitamura
- 1975Scoundrel Boss
- 1975Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2The Master
- 1975Pimp HeavenPreacher
- 1975Housewife's Experience: TenementHarukichi
- 1975青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
- 1975A Haunted Turkish BathhouseGenzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- 1974Evening PrimroseGenji's father
- 1974The Last Swordsman
- 1974The Castle of SandPublican at Ebisu
- 1974The Homeless
- 1974Street of JoyKofukuya's Owner
- 1974My WayYoshizo Kawamura
- 1974The Key
- 1974Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô HanadensyaTonomura
- 1974Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-DramaSex Show Manager
- 1973The HeartS's Father
- 1973Stray Dog
- 1973Love Lost in Tears
- 1973Rika 3: Juvenile's LullabyShimamura
- 1973Hell Riders in Kyoto
- 1973A Woman’s Road
- 1973Rika 2: Lonely WandererShimamura
- 1973Time Within Memory
- 1973Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko ShirakawaIppei
- 1973Sex and FuryTokuzô Kasai
- 1973Did the Red Bird Escape?
- 1973Deeper Than BlueShunkai
- 1972HymnHarumatsu
- 1972Afternoon Affair: Rear WindowNomura
- 1972The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 1972It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
- 1972Dear Summer SisterTakuzo Sakurada
- 1972Turtle GeishaIshibashi
- 1972The Lucky Status Symbol
- 1972The Erotomaniac Daimyo
- 1972KanawaPhysiognomist
- 1972Ai yori aoku俊界和尚
- 1972The RendezvousMurai
- 1972Umarekawatta TamegorōTokuichi Ōnuma
- 1971SilencePrison guard
- 1971Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
- 1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- 1971The CeremonyOld Chief
- 1971Onna no IjiNakano
- 1971King of Pornography
- 1971King of the Widow-Killers
- 1970Evil Spirits of JapanPachinko owner
- 1970Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
- 1970Hooligans on Buggies
- 1970The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
- 1970The Revelation of a Geisha
- 1970Yukyo-retsuden
- 1970Strange Affinity
- 1970Attack at DaylightSaeki
- 1969Gokudô Petenshi
- 1969Heat Wave Island
- 1969Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
- 1969Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
- 1968Profound Desires of the GodsHiga
- 1968East China Sea
- 1968Strong Women, Weak MenZenzo
- 1968Three Resurrected DrunkardsOld man
- 1968Wind of Youth
- 1968KuronekoFarmer
- 1968The House of the Sleeping Virgins
- 1967Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
- 1967Libido
- 1966Drunken HarborDoctor
- 1966The Little Runaway
- 1966Lost SexGonpachi
- 1966Violence at NoonSchool director
- 1966Captive's Island
- 1966Dynamite DoctorChairman
- 1966Ohanahan溝呂木老人
- 1966The PornographersFather
- 1966Black Curtain
- 1966Kokoro no sanmyaku
- 1966The Betrayers Out!
- 1965ConquestYamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- 1965Escape and the Law
- 1965An Innocent Witch
- 1965Seisaku's WifeRetired Man
- 1965Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
- 1965The Start of Life
- 1964OnibabaUshi
- 1964Intentions of MurderBeret Musician
- 1964A Story from Echigo
- 1964The Irresponsible Fool
- 1964The DesperateChief Osawa
- 1964Samurai from Nowhere
- 1964Onibaba : Film Location
- 1963Kiri ni Kieta Hito
- 1963The School Cap
- 1963Kanto WandererBoss Izu
- 1963The Insect WomanForeman
- 1963MotherTajima
- 1963Bamboo Doll of EchizenMonk
- 196318 RoughsMurata
- 1963Raised on an Island
- 1963どん底だって平ちゃらさ
- 1963Violent Street
- 1963Black ReportShinsaku Tsuda
- 1963Beyond the Green Hills
- 1962The King
- 1962HumanKamegoro
- 1962Farm Girls
- 1962Hageshī kawa
- 1962Fresh LeavesZenkichi Segawa
- 1962The Young and Bad
- 1962Akitsu Hot SpringsRokusuke
- 1962Song of a Traveller
- 1962Foundry TownMatsunaga
- 1962Tales of President MitoPresident Toyotomi
- 1962Stolen PleasureGoro
- 1962I am the Judge
- 1962Season of Farewell
- 1962大吉ぼんのう鏡
- 1962Nippon no obaachan
- 1961Love's Family Tree
- 1961Police Precinct Part 17
- 1961The Famous Wanderer
- 1961Blind DevotionHikozo
- 1961Futaridake no taiyō
- 1961Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
- 1961Pigs and BattleshipsChen
- 1961Shōjo
- 1961The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4Kotani
- 1960My Hometown is the Wild West
- 1960The Legendary HellDaihachi
- 1960The Naked IslandSenta
- 1960Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- 1960Storming Squadron
- 1960Wait for TomorrowInosuke Uematsu
- 1960Sixteen years old
- 1960Internees of Kampili
- 1960Yakuza sensei
- 1960The Last Trump CardSeitaro Koshimura
- 1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- 1960A Woman’s Uphill Slope
- 1960Irohanihoheto
- 1960One Passed Through Hell
- 1960Secret
- 1960Knock Down
- 1960The Cards Will Tell
- 1959The Prickly Mouthed GeishaKumakichi Takeda
- 1959My Second BrotherHemmi Gengoro
- 1959The Human Wall
- 1959A Killed Stewardess: White or BlackDetective Machida
- 1959Four Hours of TerrorTeppei Sasada
- 1959Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
- 1959The Telephone Rings in the Evening
- 1959Good MorningPushy Man
- 1959Tokyo no Kodoku
- 1959Talented Woman
- 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
- 1959Whistling in the Morning
- 1959Lucky Dragon No. 5
- 1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
- 1958Endless DesireRamen shop owner
- 1958The Man Who Wagers TomorrowMasumura
- 1958Hanayome no teikōYoshimaro Akiyama
- 1958Underwater Murder
- 1958The Boy Who Came BackDetective Shimamoto
- 1958Night Drum
- 1958Wind, Woman and RoadKenta
- 1958Hobo Village
- 1957On This EarthYajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- 1957TemptationTobe
- 1957Harbor Rats
- 1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu EraKurazo
- 1957Who's the Real KillerFrank
- 1957The ChampionPote-chan
- 1957Birth of a Jazz MaidenSenkichi Hanamura
- 1957Muhō Ichidai
- 1956Actress
- 1956Dotanba
- 1956Fearful Attack of the Flying SaucersDoctor Otsuki
- 1956The Shadow of Fear
- 1956Nikoyon monogatari
- 1956Our TownShime
- 1956Shiawase wa doko niShokichi
- 1956快傑耶茶坊
- 1956Darkness at NoonUhei Matsumura
- 1956Love is LostGensaku
- 1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1955The Beauty and the Dragon
- 1955Three Faces
- 1955If Indeed One LovesBartender (segment 1)
- 1955The Wolves
- 1955Sisters
- 1955Burden of LoveMr. Yamaguchi
- 1955Policeman's DiaryPatrolman Kuramochi
- 1955The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
- 1954Wakai hito-tachi
- 1954Turbid Youth
- 1954The Valley Between Love and Death
- 1954Ditch
- 1954The Street Without SunGen'ichi Inoue
- 1954Cape Ashizuri
- 1954The End of a Day
- 1954Koina no Ginpei
- 1953Gate of HellKakisuke
- 1953Before DawnRisaburo
- 1953Yokubo
- 1953MiniatureYamada
- 1953Murahachibu
- 1953Reminiscence
- 1953Tower of Lilies
- 1952Today is PaydayPresident of Akabane Construction
- 1952Violence
- 1952Children of HiroshimaOwner of a ship
- 1952Taki no ShiraitoFukuichi
- 1952Sisters of Nishijin
- 1952Dedication of the Great Buddha
- 1951Izayoi kaidō
- 1951The Man from the Moon
- 1951Story of a Beloved Wife
- 1951Saijoke no kyoen
- 1951The Tale of GenjiPriest
- 1951限りなき情熱
- 1951Who Will Judge Me?
- 1951The White Orchid
- 1951Clothes of DeceptionKasama
- 1950The End of the War
- 1950ScandalAoye's friend
- 1950Yume o meshimaseTon Chiki
- 1950Spring SnowYasuji
- 1950Town of ViolenceAngo Shindo
- 1949Ishimatsu of the ForestWaretsuku
- 1948The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
- 1948The Follower
- 1948Great XMatsushita
- 1948Drunken AngelShop Proprietor
- 1948Temptation
- 1948Shachō to onna tenin
- 1947The Ball at the Anjo HouseYoshida
- 1947Record of a Tenement GentlemanPhotographer
- 1941The Battle of KawanakajimaRokuzô Ôkuma
- —Toumei na kisetsu
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