Taiji Tonoyama
ActingBorn
October 17, 1915
Died
April 30, 1989
Place of Birth
Kobe, Japon
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.
Known For
Filmography
Thousand Cranes
1989
Black Rain
1989
War and Flowers
1989
Tomorrow
1988
Tokyo Pop
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Hawaiian Dream
1987
Hachiko
1987
Zegen
1987
River of Fireflies
1987
Tree Without Leaves
1986
Jazz Daimyo
1986
The Seburi Story
1985
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
Location
1984
The Horizon
1984
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
Dark Room
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
The Bored Samurai
1983
Oiran
1983
Sacred Koya
1983
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
Irezumi
1982
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
On the Road
1982
A Pool Without Water
1982
Fifth Movement
1981
Edo Porn
1981
Day Dream
1981
Fruits of Passion
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
Muddy River
1981
Eijanaika
1981
Tetsugen
1981
Daughter of Time
1980
Until Evening
1980
Child of the Sun
1980
Nurse's Husband
1980
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979
The Strangling
1979
Golden Partners
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
The Fall of Teenager
1979
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
Empire of Passion
1978
Love and Faith
1978
Junko's Bliss
1978
幽霊列車
1978
Ballad of Orin
1977
Tomorrow Evening
1977
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
The Far Road
1977
Seasonal Wind
1977
Eros Eterna
1977
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
1977
Two Harmonicas
1976
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Hobo General
1976
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975
Scoundrel Boss
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975
Pimp Heaven
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
Evening Primrose
1974
The Last Swordsman
1974
The Castle of Sand
1974
The Homeless
1974
Street of Joy
1974
My Way
1974
The Key
1974
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
1974
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974
The Heart
1973
Stray Dog
1973
Love Lost in Tears
1973
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
A Woman’s Road
1973
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
Time Within Memory
1973
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973
Sex and Fury
1973
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
Deeper Than Blue
1973
Hymn
1972
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
1972
Dear Summer Sister
1972
Turtle Geisha
1972
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
Kanawa
1972
The Rendezvous
1972
Silence
1971
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
The Ceremony
1971
Onna no Iji
1971
King of Pornography
1971
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
Strange Affinity
1970
Attack at Daylight
1970
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
Heat Wave Island
1969
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
Profound Desires of the Gods
1968
East China Sea
1968
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
Wind of Youth
1968
Kuroneko
1968
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Libido
1967
Drunken Harbor
1966
The Little Runaway
1966
Lost Sex
1966
Violence at Noon
1966
Captive's Island
1966
Dynamite Doctor
1966
The Pornographers
1966
Black Curtain
1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Conquest
1965
Escape and the Law
1965
An Innocent Witch
1965
Seisaku's Wife
1965
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
The Start of Life
1965
Onibaba
1964
Intentions of Murder
1964
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
The Desperate
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
The School Cap
1963
Kanto Wanderer
1963
The Insect Woman
1963
Mother
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
18 Roughs
1963
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
Violent Street
1963
Black Report
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
The King
1962
Human
1962
Farm Girls
1962
Hageshī kawa
1962
Fresh Leaves
1962
The Young and Bad
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
Song of a Traveller
1962
Foundry Town
1962
Tales of President Mito
1962
Stolen Pleasure
1962
I am the Judge
1962
Season of Farewell
1962
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Love's Family Tree
1961
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
Blind Devotion
1961
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
Pigs and Battleships
1961
Shōjo
1961
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
The Naked Island
1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
Storming Squadron
1960
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
Sixteen years old
1960
Internees of Kampili
1960
Yakuza sensei
1960
The Last Trump Card
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
Irohanihoheto
1960
One Passed Through Hell
1960
Secret
1960
Knock Down
1960
The Cards Will Tell
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959
My Second Brother
1959
The Human Wall
1959
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959
Four Hours of Terror
1959
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
Good Morning
1959
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Talented Woman
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Whistling in the morning
1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Endless Desire
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
Hanayome no teikō
1958
Underwater Murder
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
Night Drum
1958
Wind, Woman and Road
1958
Hobo Village
1958
On This Earth
1957
Temptation
1957
Harbor Rats
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
Who's the Real Killer
1957
The Champion
1957
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Actress
1956
Dotanba
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
Our Town
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
快傑耶茶坊
1956
Darkness at Noon
1956
Love is Lost
1956
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
Three Faces
1955
If Indeed One Loves
1955
The Wolves
1955
Sisters
1955
Burden of Love
1955
Policeman's Diary
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
Turbid Youth
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Ditch
1954
The Street Without Sun
1954
Cape Ashizuri
1954
The End of a Day
1954
Koina no Ginpei
1954
Gate of Hell
1953
Before Dawn
1953
Yokubo
1953
Miniature
1953
Murahachibu
1953
Reminiscence
1953
Tower of Lilies
1953
Today is Payday
1952
Violence
1952
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
Izayoi kaidō
1951
The Man from the Moon
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
The Tale of Genji
1951
限りなき情熱
1951
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
The White Orchid
1951
Clothes of Deception
1951
Scandal
1950
Spring Snow
1950
Town of Violence
1950
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
Great X
1948
Drunken Angel
1948
Temptation
1948
Shachō to onna tenin
1948
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
Toumei na kisetsu