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.
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Filmography
all 258
Movies 251
TV Shows 7
Director 1
Thousand Cranes (1989)
Movie
Old Priest
Black Rain (1989)
Movie
Actor
War and Flowers (1989)
Movie
Storekeeper
Tomorrow (1988)
Movie
Grandfather
Tokyo Pop (1988)
Movie
Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
Movie
Shokichi Shimamura
Hawaiian Dream (1987)
Movie
Hashimoto
Hachiko (1987)
Movie
Shimada
Zegen (1987)
Movie
River of Fireflies (1987)
Movie
Tree Without Leaves (1986)
Movie
Gensai
Jazz Daimyo (1986)
Movie
Kamezo
The Seburi Story (1985)
Movie
Actor
Song of the Spring Pony (1985)
Movie
Inumaru
Location (1984)
Movie
Tanimoto
The Horizon (1984)
Movie
Hikojii
Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Movie
6
Doctor(医師)
Dark Room (1983)
Movie
Actor
Sacred Koya (1983)
Movie
Teruyan
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Movie
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha (1983)
Movie
Father of Ogin
The Bored Samurai (1983)
Movie
Hachibei
Oiran (1983)
Movie
1
Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
Movie
Horiatsu
Irezumi (1982)
Movie
On the Road (1982)
Movie
Pharmacist
A Pool Without Water (1982)
Movie
Actor
A Ghost Love Story of Japan (1982)
Movie
Fifth Movement (1981)
Movie
Guard
Day Dream (1981)
Movie
Tattooist
Edo Porn (1981)
Movie
Customer
Fruits of Passion (1981)
Movie
Kinagashi Bugyō (1981)
TV
Isao Hori
Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)
Movie
Pro Hunter (1981)
TV
Man on festival boat
Muddy River (1981)
Movie
Jyosyuya
Why Not? (1981)
Movie
Tetsugen (1981)
Movie
Fireworks Hand 2
Daughter of Time (1980)
Movie
Restaurant's Owner
Until Evening (1980)
Movie
Child of the Sun (1980)
Movie
Nurse's Husband (1980)
Movie
Honda Samon
Fujin no Mon (1980)
TV
A-Un (1980)
TV
Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)
Movie
Faraway Tomorrow (1979)
Movie
The Strangling (1979)
Movie
Bend master
Golden Partners (1979)
Movie
Tanejiro Shibata
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Movie
The Fall of Teenager (1979)
Movie
Toichiro
Empire of Passion (1978)
Movie
Love and Faith (1978)
Movie
Taizô Sakata
Junko's Bliss (1978)
Movie
幽霊列車 (1978)
Movie
Mountain Man
Ballad of Orin (1977)
Movie
Tomorrow Evening (1977)
Movie
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977)
Movie
The Far Road (1977)
Movie
Man at police station
Seasonal Wind (1977)
Movie
Eros Eterna (1977)
Movie
Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)
Movie
The Gate of Youth Part 2 (1977)
Movie
Sôiku
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow (1977)
Movie
Old Beggar
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Movie
6
Hobo General (1976)
Movie
Sone
Against The Grain (1976)
TV
Kinetarô Kitamura
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment (1975)
Movie
The Master
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 (1975)
Movie
Harukichi
Housewife's Experience: Tenement (1975)
Movie
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)
Movie
Genji's father
Evening Primrose (1974)
Movie
The Last Swordsman (1974)
Movie
Publican at Ebisu
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Movie
The Homeless (1974)
Movie
Kofukuya's Owner
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out (1974)
Movie
Yoshizo Kawamura
My Way (1974)
Movie
The Key (1974)
Movie
Tonomura
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya (1974)
Movie
Ginjiro Tonomura - Sex Show Manager
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama (1974)
Movie
The Heart (1973)
Movie
Stray Dog (1973)
Movie
Love Lost in Tears (1973)
Movie
Shimamura
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973)
Movie
Hell Riders in Kyoto (1973)
Movie
A Woman’s Road (1973)
Movie
Shimamura
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Movie
Time Within Memory (1973)
Movie
Ippei
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa (1973)
Movie
Did the Red Bird Escape? (1973)
Movie
Tokuzô Kasai
Sex and Fury (1973)
Movie
Shunkai
Deeper Than Blue (1973)
Movie
Harumatsu
Hymn (1972)
Movie
Nomura
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window (1972)
Movie
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972)
Movie
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！ (1972)
Movie
Takuzo Sakurada
Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Movie
Ishibashi
Turtle Geisha (1972)
Movie
The Lucky Status Symbol (1972)
Movie
The Erotomaniac Daimyo (1972)
Movie
Physiognomist
The Iron Crown (1972)
Movie
俊界和尚
Ai yori aoku (1972)
TV
Murai
The Rendezvous (1972)
Movie
Prison guard
Silence (1971)
Movie
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971)
Movie
Evil Spirits in the Darkness (1971)
Movie
The Ceremony (1971)
Movie
Actor
Onna no Iji (1971)
Movie
King of Pornography (1971)
Movie
The Widow Killer (1971)
Movie
Pachinko owner
Evil Spirits of Japan (1970)
Movie
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
Movie
Hooligans on Buggies (1970)
Movie
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies (1970)
Movie
The Revelation of a Geisha (1970)
Movie
Yukyo-retsuden (1970)
Movie
Strange Affinity (1970)
Movie
Actor
Attack at Daylight (1970)
Movie
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys! (1969)
Movie
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting (1969)
Movie
East China Sea (1968)
Movie
Zenzo
Operation Negligee (1968)
Movie
Old man
Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Movie
Farmer
Kuroneko (1968)
Movie
6
Actor
The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
Movie
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Movie
Husband
Libido (1967)
Movie
The Little Runaway (1966)
Movie
Doctor
Drunken Harbor (1966)
Movie
Gonpachi
Lost Sex (1966)
Movie
School director
Violence at Noon (1966)
Movie
Actor
Captive's Island (1966)
Movie
Chairman
Dynamite Doctor (1966)
Movie
Actor
Ohanahan (1966)
TV
Father
The Pornographers (1966)
Movie
Kokoro no sanmyaku (1966)
Movie
Actor
The Betrayers Out! (1966)
Movie
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Conquest (1965)
Movie
Yamasan, wealthy customer
An Innocent Witch (1965)
Movie
Retired Man
Seisaku's Wife (1965)
Movie
The Start of Life (1965)
Movie
Ushi
Onibaba (1964)
Movie
6
Beret Musician
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Movie
Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
Movie
A Story from Echigo (1964)
Movie
The Irresponsible Fool (1964)
Movie
The Desperate (1964)
Movie
The School Cap (1963)
Movie
Boss Izu
Kanto Wanderer (1963)
Movie
Foreman
The Insect Woman (1963)
Movie
Tajima
Mother (1963)
Movie
Monk
Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)
Movie
Murata
18 Roughs (1963)
Movie
Shinsaku Tsuda
Black Report (1963)
Movie
Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
Movie
The King (1962)
Movie
Kamegoro
Human (1962)
Movie
Chibusa o daku musume tachi (1962)
Movie
Hageshī kawa (1962)
Movie
Zenkichi Segawa
Fresh Leaves (1962)
Movie
The Young and Bad (1962)
Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)
Movie
Song of a Traveller (1962)
Movie
Matsunaga
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow (1962)
Movie
President Toyotomi
Tales of President Mito (1962)
Movie
Goro
Stolen Pleasure (1962)
Movie
俺が裁くんだ (1962)
Movie
Season of Farewell (1962)
Movie
Nippon no obaachan (1962)
Movie
大吉ぼんのう鏡 (1962)
Movie
Love's Family Tree (1961)
Movie
Hikozo
Blind Devotion (1961)
Movie
Chen
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Movie
1
Kotani
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 (1961)
Movie
Senta, the father
The Naked Island (1960)
Movie
5
Inosuke Uematsu
Wait for Tomorrow (1960)
Movie
Sixteen years old (1960)
Movie
Internees of Kampili (1960)
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 (1960)
Movie
One Passed Through Hell (1960)
Movie
Secret (1960)
Movie
Knock Down (1960)
Movie
Kumakichi Takeda
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha (1959)
Movie
Hemmi Gengoro
My Second Brother (1959)
Movie
The Human Wall (1959)
Movie
Teppei Sasada
Four Hours of Terror (1959)
Movie
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi (1959)
Movie
Pushy Man
Good Morning (1959)
Movie
4
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)
Movie
Whistling in the morning (1959)
Movie
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Movie
4.75
Ramen shop owner
Endless Desire (1958)
Movie
Masumura
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (1958)
Movie
Underwater Murder (1958)
Movie
детектив Мацумото
The Boy Who Came Back (1958)
Movie
Night Drum (1958)
Movie
Kenta
Wind, Woman and Road (1958)
Movie
Hobo Village (1958)
Movie
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
On This Earth (1957)
Movie
Tobe
Temptation (1957)
Movie
Harbor Rats (1957)
Movie
Kurazo
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
Movie
Frank
Who's The Real Killer (1957)
Movie
Pote-chan
The Champion (1957)
Movie
Senkichi Hanamura
Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)
Movie
Actress (1956)
Movie
Dotanba (1956)
Movie
Doctor Otsuki
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)
Movie
Yogo-san
Nikoyon monogatari (1956)
Movie
The Shadow of Fear (1956)
Movie
Shime
Our Town (1956)
Movie
Shokichi
Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)
Movie
快傑耶茶坊 (1956)
Movie
Uhei Matsumura
Darkness at Noon (1956)
Movie
Gensaku
Love is Lost (1956)
Movie
Policeman's Diary, Part 2 (1955)
Movie
The Beauty and the Dragon (1955)
Movie
Three Faces (1955)
Movie
Bartender (segment 1)
Ai Sureba Koso (1955)
Movie
Yoshiyuki Mikawa
The Wolves (1955)
Movie
Mr. Yamaguchi
Burden of Love (1955)
Movie
Patrolman Kuramochi
Policeman's Diary (1955)
Movie
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes (1955)
Movie
Dorodarake no seishun (1954)
Movie
Actor
The Ditch (1954)
Movie
Gen'ichi Inoue
The Street Without Sun (1954)
Movie
Cape Ashizuri (1954)
Movie
The End of a Day (1954)
Movie
Koina no Ginpei (1954)
Movie
Kakisuke
Gate of Hell (1953)
Movie
Risaburo
Before Dawn (1953)
Movie
Yokubo (1953)
Movie
Yamada
Miniature (1953)
Movie
Murahachibu (1953)
Movie
Reminiscence (1953)
Movie
Tower of Lilies (1953)
Movie
President of Akabane Construction
Today is Payday (1952)
Movie
Owner of a ship
Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Movie
4
Sisters of Nishijin (1952)
Movie
Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952)
Movie
Izayoi kaidō (1951)
Movie
Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)
Movie
限りなき情熱 (1951)
Movie
Who Will Judge Me? (1951)
Movie
The White Orchid (1951)
Movie
Kasama
Clothes of Deception (1951)
Movie
Aoye's friend
Scandal (1950)
Movie
3.5
Spring Snow (1950)
Movie
Ango Shindo
Street of Violence (1950)
Movie
Waretsuku
Ishimatsu of the Forest (1949)
Movie
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)
Movie
Matsushita
Great X (1948)
Movie
Shop Proprietor
Drunken Angel (1948)
Movie
3
Temptation (1948)
Movie
Shachō to onna tenin (1948)
Movie
Yoshida
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
Movie
Photographer
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Movie
Rokuzô Ôkuma
The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)
Movie
Ratings
Average 4.7
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1915-10-17
Deathday1989-04-30 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceKobe, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As殿山 泰司, Танояма Тайи, 殿山泰司, Тайдзи Тонояма
AwardsMainichi Film Award for Best Actor
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