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Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama

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.

Born

Oct 17, 1915

Kobe, Japon

Died

Apr 30, 1989

Known For

Acting

Movies

315 acting

0 crew

Popularity

1.0

Known For

In the Realm of the Senses
In the Realm of the Senses
1976 • as Old Beggar
★ 6.6
The Ballad of Narayama
The Ballad of Narayama
1983 • as Teruyan
★ 7.5
Empire of Passion
Empire of Passion
1978 • as Toichiro
★ 6.8
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
1948 • as Shop Proprietor
★ 7.6
Vengeance Is Mine
Vengeance Is Mine
1979 • as Tanejiro Shibata
★ 7.5
Fifth Movement
★ 7.0
Onibaba
Onibaba
1964 • as Ushi
★ 7.7
Sex and Fury
Sex and Fury
1973 • as Tokuzô Kasai
★ 6.2
Hachiko
Hachiko
1987 • as Hashimoto
★ 7.8
Good Morning
Good Morning
1959 • as Pushy Man
★ 7.7
The Castle of Sand
The Castle of Sand
1974 • as Publican at Ebisu
★ 7.3
Fruits of Passion
Fruits of Passion
1981 • as Customer
★ 5.3
A Pool Without Water
A Pool Without Water
1982 • as Pharmacist
★ 5.4
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983 • as Hikojii
★ 5.9
The Insect Woman
The Insect Woman
1963 • as Foreman
★ 7.2
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975 • as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
★ 5.8
Profound Desires of the Gods
★ 7.4
Kuroneko
Kuroneko
1968 • as Farmer
★ 7.4
Gate of Hell
Gate of Hell
1953 • as Kakisuke
★ 7.1
The Pornographers
The Pornographers
1966 • as Father
★ 7.3
Black Rain
Black Rain
1989 • as Old Priest
★ 7.6
Edo Porn
Edo Porn
1981 • as Tattooist
★ 5.9
Day Dream
Day Dream
1981 • as Guard
★ 4.8
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships
1961 • as Chen
★ 7.2
Scandal
Scandal
1950 • as Aoye's friend
★ 6.9
Intentions of Murder
Intentions of Murder
1964 • as Beret Musician
★ 7.1
Silence
Silence
1971 • as Prison guard
★ 7.2
Ballad of Orin
Ballad of Orin
1977 • as Mountain Man
★ 7.2
Dark Room
Dark Room
1983 • as Doctor(医師)
★ 5.6
The Ceremony
The Ceremony
1971 • as Old Chief
★ 6.8
Violence at Noon
Violence at Noon
1966 • as School director
★ 6.2
Night Drum
★ 5.9
Yokohama BJ Blues
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981 • as Isao Hori
★ 7.8
Turtle Geisha
Turtle Geisha
1972 • as Ishibashi
★ 5.1
Tokyo Pop
Tokyo Pop
1988 • as Grandfather
★ 6.9
Seisaku's Wife
Seisaku's Wife
1965 • as Retired Man
★ 7.3
Kanawa
Kanawa
1972 • as Physiognomist
★ 6.0
Oiran
Oiran
1983 • as Hachibei
★ 4.9
Eijanaika
Eijanaika
1981 • as Jyosyuya
★ 6.2
The Naked Island
The Naked Island
1960 • as Senta
★ 8.0
Irezumi
Irezumi
1982 • as Horiatsu
★ 5.7
Zegen
Zegen
1987 • as Shimada
★ 6.4
Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon
1956 • as Uhei Matsumura
★ 6.9
Stolen Pleasure
Stolen Pleasure
1962 • as Goro
★ 7.2
Children of Hiroshima
Children of Hiroshima
1952 • as Owner of a ship
★ 7.1
Akitsu Hot Springs
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962 • as Rokusuke
★ 6.5
Street of Joy
Street of Joy
1974 • as Kofukuya's Owner
★ 7.0
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973 • as Shimamura
★ 6.0
Stray Dog
★ 7.9
The Human Wall
★ 6.2
The Rendezvous
The Rendezvous
1972 • as Murai
★ 6.6
The Wolves
★ 6.9
Muddy River
Muddy River
1981 • as Man on Festival Boat
★ 7.3
An Innocent Witch
★ 7.2
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963 • as Monk
★ 7.8
Yakuza sensei
★ 7.0
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947 • as Photographer
★ 7.2
Nuclear Gypsies
★ 6.7
Hawaiian Dream
Hawaiian Dream
1987 • as Shokichi Shimamura
★ 10.0
Eros Eterna
★ 4.6
If Indeed One Loves
If Indeed One Loves
1955 • as Bartender (segment 1)
★ 10.0
My Second Brother
My Second Brother
1959 • as Hemmi Gengoro
★ 6.6
Dear Summer Sister
Dear Summer Sister
1972 • as Takuzo Sakurada
★ 5.2
The Street Without Sun
The Street Without Sun
1954 • as Gen'ichi Inoue
★ 7.0
Faraway Tomorrow
★ 3.7
Kanto Wanderer
Kanto Wanderer
1963 • as Boss Izu
★ 6.6
Love and Faith
★ 6.4
Wind, Woman and Road
Wind, Woman and Road
1958 • as Kenta
★ 7.8
The Three Faces
The Three Faces
1955 • as Gen
★ 10.0
Deeper Than Blue
Deeper Than Blue
1973 • as Shunkai
★ 8.0
Reminiscence
★ 7.0
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968 • as Old man
★ 5.7
Conquest
Conquest
1965 • as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
★ 6.0
The Homeless
The Homeless
1974 • as Tamezo
★ 7.8
Mother
Mother
1963 • as Tajima
★ 6.8
The Champion
The Champion
1957 • as Pote-chan
★ 6.7
Endless Desire
Endless Desire
1958 • as Ramen shop owner
★ 6.8
Pimp Heaven
Pimp Heaven
1975 • as Preacher
★ 3.5
On This Earth
On This Earth
1957 • as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
★ 7.0
Ditch
Ditch
1954
★ 7.5
The Strangling
★ 4.8
Foundry Town
Foundry Town
1962 • as Matsunaga
★ 7.8
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959 • as Detective Machida
★ 10.0
Human
Human
1962 • as Kamegoro
★ 6.9
The Seburi Story
The Seburi Story
1985 • as Kamezo
★ 6.6
Temptation
Temptation
1957 • as Tobe
★ 8.0
Libido
★ 10.0
Tower of Lilies
★ 6.8
The Key
★ 4.3
Location
Location
1984 • as Inumaru
★ 8.5
Great X
Great X
1948 • as Matsushita
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
★ 5.9
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 • as Waretsuku
★ 7.0
The End of a Day
★ 7.5
movie
★ 7.0
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
1988 • as Storekeeper
★ 8.0
Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn
1953 • as Risaburo
★ 10.0
Evening Primrose
Evening Primrose
1974 • as Genji's father
★ 7.3
Wind of Youth
★ 7.0
movie
Farm Girls
Farm Girls
1962 • as Kuranosuke
★ 10.0
Evil Spirits of Japan
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 • as Pachinko owner
★ 6.8
My Way
My Way
1974 • as Yoshizo Kawamura
★ 6.0
Wakai hito-tachi
★ 8.0
movie
Yume o meshimase
1950 • as Ton Chiki
Harbor Rats
★ 9.0
Burden of Love
Burden of Love
1955 • as Mr. Yamaguchi
★ 6.8
Clothes of Deception
Clothes of Deception
1951 • as Kasama
★ 7.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959 • as Kumakichi Takeda
★ 7.0
Strong Women, Weak Men
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968 • as Zenzo
★ 8.0
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
1951 • as Priest
★ 6.0
Captive's Island
★ 6.7
The Desperate
The Desperate
1964 • as Chief Osawa
★ 7.0
Jazz Daimyo
Jazz Daimyo
1986 • as Gensai
★ 6.3
Taki no Shiraito
Taki no Shiraito
1952 • as Fukuichi
Four Hours of Terror
Four Hours of Terror
1959 • as Teppei Sasada
★ 6.2
Sakura-tai Chiru
★ 6.8
The Legendary Hell
The Legendary Hell
1960 • as Daihachi
Violence
★ 8.0
Blind Devotion
Blind Devotion
1961 • as Hikozo
★ 9.0
Hobo General
★ 10.0
Wait for Tomorrow
Wait for Tomorrow
1960 • as Inosuke Uematsu
Actress
★ 8.0
Cape Ashizuri
★ 9.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
★ 10.0
The Ball at the Anjo House
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947 • as Yoshida
★ 7.0
Spring Snow
Spring Snow
1950 • as Yasuji
Hanayome no teikō
Hanayome no teikō
1958 • as Yoshimaro Akiyama
Temptation
★ 8.0
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958 • as Masumura
★ 6.0
Black Report
Black Report
1963 • as Shinsaku Tsuda
★ 6.6
Love is Lost
Love is Lost
1956 • as Gensaku
★ 8.0
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
★ 10.0
Women of Ginza
★ 9.0
movie
Avalanche
1952 • as Miyabayashi
The Boy Who Came Back
The Boy Who Came Back
1958 • as Detective Shimamoto
★ 7.6
The King
★ 8.0
The Far Road
★ 7.7
Turbid Youth
★ 9.0
Heat Wave Island
★ 6.7
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956 • as Doctor Otsuki
★ 7.0
Fresh Leaves
Fresh Leaves
1962 • as Zenkichi Segawa
★ 7.0
The Heart
The Heart
1973 • as S's Father
★ 8.2
Attack at Daylight
Attack at Daylight
1970 • as Saeki
★ 5.0
Policeman's Diary
Policeman's Diary
1955 • as Patrolman Kuramochi
★ 7.0
East China Sea
★ 10.0
Dynamite Doctor
Dynamite Doctor
1966 • as Chairman
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
★ 8.0
The Last Trump Card
The Last Trump Card
1960 • as Seitaro Koshimura
★ 5.0
Drunken Harbor
Drunken Harbor
1966 • as Doctor
Lost Sex
Lost Sex
1966 • as Gonpachi
★ 9.0
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979 • as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
Hymn
Hymn
1972 • as Harumatsu
★ 6.6
The Horizon
The Horizon
1984 • as Tanimoto
★ 7.0
Who's the Real Killer
Who's the Real Killer
1957 • as Frank
★ 10.0
movie
★ 8.5
Tales of President Mito
Tales of President Mito
1962 • as President Toyotomi
Onna no Iji
Onna no Iji
1971 • as Nakano
★ 7.0
Until Evening
Until Evening
1980 • as Restaurant's Owner
★ 7.0
movie
Town of Violence
Town of Violence
1950 • as Ango Shindo
★ 6.5
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957 • as Senkichi Hanamura
Yukyo-retsuden
★ 7.5
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973 • as Shimamura
★ 4.0
Strange Affinity
★ 8.0
18 Roughs
18 Roughs
1963 • as Murata
★ 6.7
Our Town
Our Town
1956 • as Shime
★ 6.9
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956 • as Shokichi
★ 9.0
Golden Partners
Golden Partners
1979 • as Bend master
★ 7.0
Miniature
Miniature
1953 • as Yamada
★ 7.8
Scoundrel Boss
★ 7.0
movie
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
★ 10.0
Desire
★ 9.0
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
★ 3.7
movie
★ 10.0
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974 • as Sex Show Manager
★ 7.5
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972 • as Tokuichi Ōnuma
War and Flowers
★ 7.0
Daughter of Time
Daughter of Time
1980 • as Fireworks Hand 2
The Bored Samurai
The Bored Samurai
1983 • as Father of Ogin
The Battle of Kawanakajima
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941 • as Rokuzô Ôkuma
★ 7.0
Thousand Cranes
★ 7.3
Junko's Bliss
Junko's Bliss
1978 • as Taizô Sakata
★ 3.7
Gokudô Petenshi
★ 10.0
Sisters
★ 7.0
Dotanba
★ 6.0
Today is Payday
Today is Payday
1952 • as President of Akabane Construction
★ 9.0