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.
Acted in 308
1980s
- 1989
War and Flowers
Movie
- 1988
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
Sakura-tai Chiru
Movie
- 1987
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
Zegen
Shimada
River of Fireflies
Movie
- 1986
Tree Without Leaves
Movie
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
- 1985
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
Nuclear Gypsies
Movie
- 1984
The Horizon
Tanimoto
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
Movie
- 1983
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Movie
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
Oiran
Hachibei
Sacred Koya
Movie
- 1982
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Movie
- 1981
Day Dream
Guard
Fruits of Passion
Customer
Magistrate of the Floating World
Movie
Kinagashi Bugyō
TV
Tetsugen
Movie
- 1980
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
Child of the Sun
Movie
A-Un
TV
1970s
- 1979
Faraway Tomorrow
Movie
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
The Strangling
Movie
Golden Partners
Bend master
Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
Movie
- 1978
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
Movie
Love and Faith
Movie
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
Ghost Train
Movie
- 1977
Tomorrow Evening
Movie
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie
Seasonal Wind
Movie
Eros Eterna
Movie
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Movie
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
- 1976
Two Harmonicas
Movie
Hobo General
Movie
A Cheerful Yakuza
Movie
- 1975
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
Scoundrel Boss
Movie
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
Pimp Heaven
Preacher
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
Movie
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- 1974
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
The Last Swordsman
Movie
The Homeless
Tamezo
Street of Joy
Kofukuya's Owner
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
The Key
Movie
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
- 1973
The Heart
S's Father
Love Lost in Tears
Movie
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Movie
A Woman’s Road
Movie
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
Time Within Memory
Movie
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Movie
- 1972
Hymn
Harumatsu
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Movie
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
The Lucky Status Symbol
Movie
Kanawa
Physiognomist
The Rendezvous
Murai
- 1971
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Movie
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Movie
King of Pornography
Movie
- 1970
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Movie
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie
The Revelation of a Geisha
Movie
Yukyo-retsuden
Movie
Strange Affinity
Movie
1960s
- 1969
Heat Wave Island
Movie
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Movie
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
Movie
- 1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
Strong Women, Weak Men
Zenzo
Kuroneko
Farmer
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Movie
- 1967
Libido
Movie
- 1966
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
The Little Runaway
Movie
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
The Pornographers
Father
Black Curtain
Movie
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Movie
- 1965
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Escape and the Law
Movie
An Innocent Witch
Movie
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Movie
The Start of Life
Movie
- 1964
A Story from Echigo
Movie
The Desperate
Chief Osawa
Onibaba : Film Location
Movie
- 1963
The School Cap
Movie
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
Mother
Tajima
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
Raised on an Island
Movie
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
- 1962
The King
Movie
Human
Kamegoro
Farm Girls
Kuranosuke
The Young and Bad
Movie
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
I am the Judge
Movie
大吉ぼんのう鏡
Movie
Nippon no obaachan
Movie
- 1961
Love's Family Tree
Movie
Police Precinct Part 17
Movie
Futaridake no taiyō
Movie
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Movie
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
Shōjo
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
- 1960
The Legendary Hell
Daihachi
The Naked Island
Senta
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Movie
Storming Squadron
Movie
Sixteen years old
Movie
Internees of Kampili
Movie
Yakuza sensei
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie
Irohanihoheto
Movie
One Passed Through Hell
Movie
Secret
Movie
Knock Down
Movie
1950s
- 1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
The Human Wall
Movie
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Detective Machida
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
Movie
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
Movie
Talented Woman
Movie
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie
Whistling in the Morning
Movie
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Movie
- 1958
Hanayome no teikō
Yoshimaro Akiyama
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Movie
- 1957
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Harbor Rats
Movie
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
The Champion
Pote-chan
Muhō Ichidai
Movie
- 1956
Actress
Movie
Dotanba
Movie
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
Our Town
Shime
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
Love is Lost
Gensaku
- 1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie
The Beauty and the Dragon
Movie
The Three Faces
Gen
If Indeed One Loves
Bartender (segment 1)
The Wolves
Movie
Sisters
Movie
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Movie
- 1954
Wakai hito-tachi
Movie
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie
Ditch
Movie
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
The End of a Day
Movie
Koina no Ginpei
Movie
- 1953
Before the Dawn
Risaburo
Desire
Movie
Miniature
Yamada
Murahachibu
Movie
Reminiscence
Movie
Tower of Lilies
Movie
- 1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
Violence
Movie
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
Taki no Shiraito
Fukuichi
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
Movie
- 1951
Izayoi kaidō
Movie
The Man from the Moon
Movie
Saijoke no kyoen
Movie
The Tale of Genji
Priest
Who Will Judge Me?
Movie
Freedom School
Movie
The White Orchid
Movie
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
- 1950
The End of the War
Movie
Spring Snow
Yasuji
Town of Violence
Ango Shindo
1940s
- 1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
- 1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Movie
Great X
Matsushita
Temptation
Movie
- 1947
- 1941
