Taiji Tonoyama

Known for Acting

Details

Birthday: October 17, 1915

Deathday: April 30, 1989

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

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.

Actor

1989

Thousand Cranes

1989

War and Flowers

1989

Black Rain

1988

Tokyo Pop

1988

Sakura-tai Chiru

1988

Tomorrow

1987

Hachiko

1987

Zegen

1987

River of Fireflies

1987

Hawaiian Dream

1986

Jazz Daimyo

1986

Tree Without Leaves

1985

Nuclear Gypsies

1985

The Seburi Story

1985

Song of the Spring Pony

1984

Location

1984

The Horizon

1983

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

1983

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

Oiran

1983

The Bored Samurai

1983

Legend of the Eight Samurai

1983

Dark Room

1983

Sacred Koya

1982

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

1982

Irezumi

1982

On the Road

1982

A Pool Without Water

1982

Tora-san, the Expert

1981

Fifth Movement

1981

Fruits of Passion

1981

Edo Porn

1981

Muddy River

1981

Why Not?

1981

Day Dream

1981

Tetsugen

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

1980

Child of the Sun

1980

Nurse's Husband

1980

Daughter of Time

1980

Until Evening

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

Golden Partners

1979

The Strangling

1979

Faraway Tomorrow

1979

The Fall of Teenager

1979

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

1979

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

1979

The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case

1978

Empire of Passion

1978

Junko's Bliss

1978

幽霊列車

1978

Love and Faith

1978

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

1977

Seasonal Wind

1977

Ballad of Orin

1977

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

1977

Eros Eterna

1977

The Far Road

1977

Tomorrow Evening

1977

Case of the Disjointed Murder

1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2

1977

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

1976

In the Realm of the Senses

1976

Hobo General

1976

Two Harmonicas

1976

A Cheerful Yakuza

1975

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

1975

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

1975

Pimp Heaven

1975

Scoundrel Boss

1975

青春トルコ日記処女すべり

1974

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

1974

Street of Joy

1974

The Castle of Sand

1974

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

1974

The Key

1974

My Way

1974

The Last Swordsman

1974

Evening Primrose

1974

The Homeless

1973

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

1973

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

1973

Hell Riders in Kyoto

1973

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

1973

Sex and Fury

1973

Stray Dog

1973

The Heart

1973

Love Lost in Tears

1973

A Woman’s Road

1973

Deeper Than Blue

1973

Time Within Memory

1973

Did the Red Bird Escape?

1972

祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

1972

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

1972

The Iron Crown

1972

Dear Summer Sister

1972

The Rendezvous

1972

Hymn

1972

The Lucky Status Symbol

1972

Turtle Geisha

1972

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

1972

The Erotomaniac Daimyo

1971

King of Pornography

1971

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1971

The Ceremony

1971

Silence

1971

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

1971

King of the Widow-Killers

1971

Onna no Iji

1970

Evil Spirits of Japan

1970

Attack at Daylight

1970

Yukyo-retsuden

1970

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

1970

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

1970

Hooligans on Buggies

1970

The Revelation of a Geisha

1970

Strange Affinity

1969

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

1969

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

1969

Gokudô Petenshi

1969

Heat Wave Island

1968

Kuroneko

1968

Strong Women, Weak Men

1968

Three Resurrected Drunkards

1968

East China Sea

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

1968

Wind of Youth

1968

Profound Desires of the Gods

1967

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967

Libido

1966

Violence at Noon

1966

Drunken Harbor

1966

Dynamite Doctor

1966

Captive's Island

1966

The Little Runaway

1966

The Betrayers Out!

1966

Lost Sex

1966

The Pornographers

1966

Kokoro no sanmyaku

1966

Black Curtain

1965

An Innocent Witch

1965

Conquest

1965

Seisaku's Wife

1965

The Start of Life

1965

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

1965

Escape and the Law

1964

Onibaba

1964

The Desperate

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

Intentions of Murder

1964

The Irresponsible Fool

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

1964

Onibaba : Film Location

1963

The Insect Woman

1963

18 Roughs

1963

Black Report

1963

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

1963

Mother

1963

Kanto Wanderer

1963

The School Cap

1963

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

1963

どん底だって平ちゃらさ

1963

Violent Street

1962

I am the Judge

1962

大吉ぼんのう鏡

1962

Foundry Town

1962

The King

1962

Human

1962

Hageshī kawa

1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

Farm Girls

1962

Season of Farewell

1962

Stolen Pleasure

1962

Fresh Leaves

1962

Tales of President Mito

1962

The Young and Bad

1962

Nippon no obaachan

1961

Love's Family Tree

1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

1961

Blind Devotion

1961

Pigs and Battleships

1961

Shōjo

1961

Futaridake no taiyō

1961

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

1961

Police Precinct Part 17

1961

でかんしょ風来坊

1960

The Naked Island

1960

Sixteen years old

1960

One Passed Through Hell

1960

Secret

1960

Irohanihoheto

1960

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

1960

Internees of Kampili

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

1960

Knock Down

1960

The Cards Will Tell

1960

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

1960

My Hometown is the Wild West

1960

Yakuza sensei

1960

Storming Squadron

1959

Good Morning

1959

My Second Brother

1959

Whistling in the morning

1959

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

1959

Four Hours of Terror

1959

The Human Wall

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

1959

Talented Woman

1958

Underwater Murder

1958

Night Drum

1958

Endless Desire

1958

Hobo Village

1958

Wind, Woman and Road

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

1957

Who's the Real Killer

1957

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

1957

Harbor Rats

1957

The Champion

1957

Temptation

1957

On This Earth

1957

Muhō Ichidai

1956

Dotanba

1956

快傑耶茶坊

1956

Our Town

1956

The Shadow of Fear

1956

Darkness at Noon

1956

Love is Lost

1956

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

1956

Nikoyon monogatari

1956

Actress

1955

Three Faces

1955

Policeman's Diary

1955

The Wolves

1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1955

Burden of Love

1955

If Indeed One Loves

1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

The Beauty and the Dragon

1955

Sisters

1954

Turbid Youth

1954

Koina no Ginpei

1954

Ditch

1954

Cape Ashizuri

1954

The End of a Day

1954

The Street Without Sun

1954

Wakai hito-tachi

1954

The Valley Between Love and Death

1953

Reminiscence

1953

Murahachibu

1953

Gate of Hell

1953

Before Dawn

1953

Tower of Lilies

1953

Miniature

1953

Yokubo

1952

Today is Payday

1952

Children of Hiroshima

1952

Sisters of Nishijin

1952

Dedication of the Great Buddha

1952

Violence

1951

Izayoi kaidō

1951

限りなき情熱

1951

Story of a Beloved Wife

1951

Clothes of Deception

1951

The White Orchid

1951

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

The Tale of Genji

1951

The Man from the Moon

1950

Spring Snow

1950

Scandal

1950

Town of Violence

1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest

1948

Shachō to onna tenin

1948

Drunken Angel

1948

Great X

1948

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

1948

Temptation

1947

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947

The Ball at the Anjo House

1941

The Battle of Kawanakajima