Taiji Tonoyama
October 17, 1915 (109 years old) in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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
Credits
- 1989 · Thousand Cranes as
- 1989 · Black Rain as Old Priest
- 1989 · War and Flowers as
- 1988 · Tomorrow as Storekeeper
- 1988 · Tokyo Pop as Grandfather
- 1988 · Sakura-tai Chiru as
- 1987 · Hawaiian Dream as Shokichi Shimamura
- 1987 · Hachiko as Hashimoto
- 1987 · Zegen as Shimada
- 1987 · River of Fireflies as
- 1986 · Tree Without Leaves as
- 1986 · Jazz Daimyo as Gensai
- 1985 · The Seburi Story as Kamezo
- 1985 · Nuclear Gypsies as
- 1985 · Song of the Spring Pony as
- 1984 · Location as Inumaru
- 1984 · The Horizon as Tanimoto
- 1983 · Legend of the Eight Samurai as Hikojii
- 1983 · Dark Room as Doctor(医師)
- 1983 · The Ballad of Narayama as Teruyan
- 1983 · Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha as
- 1983 · The Bored Samurai as Father of Ogin
- 1983 · Oiran as Hachibei
- 1982 · Tora-san, the Expert as
- 1982 · Irezumi as Horiatsu
- 1982 · A Ghost Love Story of Japan as
- 1982 · On the Road as
- 1982 · A Pool Without Water as Pharmacist
- 1981 · Fifth Movement as
- 1981 · Edo Porn as Tattooist
- 1981 · Day Dream as Guard
- 1981 · Fruits of Passion as Customer
- 1981 · Kinagashi Bugyō as
- 1981 · Yokohama BJ Blues as Isao Hori
- 1981 · Pro Hunter as
- 1981 · Muddy River as Man on Festival Boat
- 1981 · Why Not? as Jyosyuya
- 1981 · Tetsugen as
- 1980 · Daughter of Time as Fireworks Hand 2
- 1980 · Until Evening as Restaurant's Owner
- 1980 · Child of the Sun as
- 1980 · Nurse's Husband as
- 1980 · A-Un as
- 1979 · Tora-san's Dream of Spring as
- 1979 · Faraway Tomorrow as
- 1979 · The Strangling as
- 1979 · Golden Partners as Bend master
- 1979 · Vengeance Is Mine as Tanejiro Shibata
- 1979 · The Fall of Teenager as
- 1978 · Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo as
- 1978 · Empire of Passion as Toichiro
- 1978 · Love and Faith as
- 1978 · Junko's Bliss as Taizô Sakata
- 1978 · 幽霊列車 as
- 1977 · Ballad of Orin as Mountain Man
- 1977 · Tomorrow Evening as
- 1977 · The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro as
- 1977 · The Far Road as
- 1977 · Seasonal Wind as
- 1977 · Eros Eterna as
- 1977 · Case of the Disjointed Murder as
- 1977 · The Gate of Youth Part 2 as
- 1977 · Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow as Sôiku
- 1976 · Two Harmonicas as
- 1976 · In the Realm of the Senses as Old Beggar
- 1976 · Hobo General as
- 1976 · The Roads Men Travel as Sone
- 1975 · Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment as Kinetarô Kitamura
- 1975 · Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 as The Master
- 1975 · Housewife's Experience: Tenement as Harukichi
- 1975 · A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
- 1974 · Evening Primrose as Genji's father
- 1974 · The Last Swordsman as
- 1974 · The Castle of Sand as Publican at Ebisu
- 1974 · The Homeless as
- 1974 · Red Light District: Gonna Get Out as Kofukuya's Owner
- 1974 · My Way as Yoshizo Kawamura
- 1974 · The Key as
- 1974 · Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya as Tonomura
- 1974 · Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama as Sex Show Manager
- 1973 · The Heart as S's Father
- 1973 · Stray Dog as
- 1973 · Love Lost in Tears as
- 1973 · Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby as Shimamura
- 1973 · Hell Riders in Kyoto as
- 1973 · A Woman’s Road as
- 1973 · Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer as Shimamura
- 1973 · Time Within Memory as
- 1973 · Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa as Ippei
- 1973 · Sex and Fury as Tokuzô Kasai
- 1973 · Did the Red Bird Escape? as
- 1973 · Deeper Than Blue as Shunkai
- 1972 · Hymn as Harumatsu
- 1972 · Afternoon Affair: Rear Window as Nomura
- 1972 · The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats as
- 1972 · Dear Summer Sister as Takuzo Sakurada
- 1972 · 祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！ as
- 1972 · Turtle Geisha as Ishibashi
- 1972 · The Lucky Status Symbol as
- 1972 · The Erotomaniac Daimyo as
- 1972 · The Iron Crown as Physiognomist
- 1972 · Ai yori aoku as 俊界和尚
- 1972 · The Rendezvous as Murai
- 1971 · Silence as Prison guard
- 1971 · Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha as
- 1971 · Evil Spirits in the Darkness as
- 1971 · The Ceremony as Old Chief
- 1971 · Onna no Iji as Nakano
- 1971 · King of Pornography as
- 1971 · King of the Widow-Killers as
- 1970 · Evil Spirits of Japan as Pachinko owner
- 1970 · Live Today, Die Tomorrow! as
- 1970 · Hooligans on Buggies as
- 1970 · The Kingpin of Fair Ladies as
- 1970 · The Revelation of a Geisha as
- 1970 · Yukyo-retsuden as
- 1970 · Strange Affinity as
- 1970 · Attack at Daylight as Saeki
- 1969 · Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys! as
- 1969 · Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting as
- 1968 · East China Sea as
- 1968 · Strong Women, Weak Men as Zenzo
- 1968 · Three Resurrected Drunkards as Old man
- 1968 · Kuroneko as Farmer
- 1968 · The House of the Sleeping Virgins as
- 1967 · Japanese Summer: Double Suicide as
- 1967 · Libido as
- 1966 · The Little Runaway as
- 1966 · Drunken Harbor as Doctor
- 1966 · Lost Sex as Gonpachi
- 1966 · Violence at Noon as School director
- 1966 · Captive's Island as
- 1966 · Dynamite Doctor as Chairman
- 1966 · Ohanahan as 溝呂木老人
- 1966 · The Pornographers as Father
- 1966 · Kokoro no sanmyaku as
- 1966 · The Betrayers Out! as
- 1965 · Conquest as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
- 1965 · An Innocent Witch as
- 1965 · Seisaku's Wife as Retired Man
- 1965 · The Start of Life as
- 1964 · Onibaba as Ushi
- 1964 · Intentions of Murder as Beret Musician
- 1964 · Samurai from Nowhere as
- 1964 · A Story from Echigo as
- 1964 · The Irresponsible Fool as
- 1964 · The Desperate as
- 1963 · Kiri ni Kieta Hito as
- 1963 · The School Cap as
- 1963 · Kanto Wanderer as Boss Izu
- 1963 · The Insect Woman as Foreman
- 1963 · Mother as Tajima
- 1963 · Bamboo Doll of Echizen as Monk
- 1963 · 18 Roughs as Murata
- 1963 · Black Report as Shinsaku Tsuda
- 1963 · Beyond the Green Hills as
- 1962 · The King as
- 1962 · Human as Kamegoro
- 1962 · Chibusa o daku musume tachi as
- 1962 · Hageshī kawa as
- 1962 · Fresh Leaves as Zenkichi Segawa
- 1962 · The Young and Bad as
- 1962 · Akitsu Hot Springs as
- 1962 · Song of a Traveller as
- 1962 · Foundry Town as Matsunaga
- 1962 · Tales of President Mito as President Toyotomi
- 1962 · Stolen Pleasure as Goro
- 1962 · I am the Judge as
- 1962 · Season of Farewell as
- 1962 · Nippon no obaachan as
- 1962 · 大吉ぼんのう鏡 as
- 1961 · Love's Family Tree as
- 1961 · Blind Devotion as Hikozo
- 1961 · Pigs and Battleships as Chen
- 1961 · Shōjo as
- 1961 · The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Kotani
- 1960 · The Naked Island as Senta
- 1960 · Wait for Tomorrow as Inosuke Uematsu
- 1960 · Sixteen years old as
- 1960 · Internees of Kampili as
- 1960 · The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 as
- 1960 · Irohanihoheto as
- 1960 · One Passed Through Hell as
- 1960 · Secret as
- 1960 · Knock Down as
- 1959 · The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Kumakichi Takeda
- 1959 · My Second Brother as Hemmi Gengoro
- 1959 · The Human Wall as
- 1959 · A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Detective Machida
- 1959 · Four Hours of Terror as Teppei Sasada
- 1959 · Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi as
- 1959 · Good Morning as Pushy Man
- 1959 · Tokyo no Kodoku as
- 1959 · Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as
- 1959 · Whistling in the morning as
- 1959 · Lucky Dragon No. 5 as
- 1959 · The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as
- 1958 · Endless Desire as Ramen shop owner
- 1958 · The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Masumura
- 1958 · Underwater Murder as
- 1958 · The Boy Who Came Back as
- 1958 · Night Drum as
- 1958 · Wind, Woman and Road as Kenta
- 1958 · Hobo Village as
- 1957 · On This Earth as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
- 1957 · Temptation as Tobe
- 1957 · Harbor Rats as
- 1957 · A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kurazo
- 1957 · Who's The Real Killer as Frank
- 1957 · The Champion as Pote-chan
- 1957 · Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Senkichi Hanamura
- 1957 · Muhō Ichidai as
- 1956 · Actress as
- 1956 · Dotanba as
- 1956 · Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers as Doctor Otsuki
- 1956 · The Shadow of Fear as
- 1956 · Nikoyon monogatari as
- 1956 · Our Town as Shime
- 1956 · Shiawase wa doko ni as Shokichi
- 1956 · 快傑耶茶坊 as
- 1956 · Darkness at Noon as Uhei Matsumura
- 1956 · Love is Lost as Gensaku
- 1955 · Policeman's Diary, Part 2 as
- 1955 · The Beauty and the Dragon as
- 1955 · Three Faces as
- 1955 · Ai Sureba Koso as Bartender (segment 1)
- 1955 · The Wolves as
- 1955 · Burden of Love as Mr. Yamaguchi
- 1955 · Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Kuramochi
- 1955 · The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as
- 1954 · Turbid youth as
- 1954 · The Ditch as
- 1954 · The Street Without Sun as Gen'ichi Inoue
- 1954 · Cape Ashizuri as
- 1954 · The End of a Day as
- 1954 · Koina no Ginpei as
- 1953 · Gate of Hell as Kakisuke
- 1953 · Before Dawn as Risaburo
- 1953 · Yokubo as
- 1953 · Miniature as Yamada
- 1953 · Murahachibu as
- 1953 · Reminiscence as
- 1953 · Tower of Lilies as
- 1952 · Today is Payday as President of Akabane Construction
- 1952 · Violence as
- 1952 · Children of Hiroshima as Owner of a ship
- 1952 · Sisters of Nishijin as
- 1952 · Dedication of the Great Buddha as
- 1951 · Izayoi kaidō as
- 1951 · Story of a Beloved Wife as
- 1951 · 限りなき情熱 as
- 1951 · Who Will Judge Me? as
- 1951 · The White Orchid as
- 1951 · Clothes of Deception as Kasama
- 1950 · Scandal as Aoye's friend
- 1950 · Street of Violence as Ango Shindo
- 1950 · Spring Snow as
- 1949 · Ishimatsu of the Forest as Waretsuku
- 1948 · The Most Beautiful Day of My Life as
- 1948 · Great X as Matsushita
- 1948 · Drunken Angel as Shop Proprietor
- 1948 · Temptation as
- 1948 · Shachō to onna tenin as
- 1947 · The Ball at the Anjo House as Yoshida
- 1947 · Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Photographer
- 1941 · The Battle of Kawanakajima as Rokuzô Ôkuma