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Taiji Tonoyama

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

17/10/1915

Day of Death

30/04/1989
(74) years old

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Taiji Tonoyama

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... Read More

Known For

Thousand Cranes

Black Rain

War and Flowers

Tomorrow

Tokyo Pop

Sakura-tai Chiru

Hawaiian Dream

Hachiko

Zegen

River of Fireflies

Filmography

Cast

1989

Thousand Cranes

1989

Black Rain

as Old Priest

1989

War and Flowers

1988

Tomorrow

as Storekeeper

1988

Tokyo Pop

as Grandfather

1988

Sakura-tai Chiru

1987

Hawaiian Dream

as Shokichi Shimamura

1987

Hachiko

as Hashimoto

1987

Zegen

as Shimada

1987

River of Fireflies

1986

Tree Without Leaves

1986

Jazz Daimyo

as Gensai

1985

The Seburi Story

as Kamezo

1985

Nuclear Gypsies

1985

Song of the Spring Pony

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 shirah...

1983

The Bored Samurai

as Father of Ogin

1983

Oiran

as Hachibei

1983

Sacred Koya

1982

Tora-san, the Expert

1982

Irezumi

as Horiatsu

1982

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

1982

On the Road

1982

A Pool Without Water

as Pharmacist

1981

Fifth Movement

1981

Edo Porn

as Tattooist

1981

Day Dream

as Guard

1981

Fruits of Passion

as Customer

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

as Isao Hori

1981

Muddy River

as Man on Festival Boat

1981

Eijanaika

as Jyosyuya

1981

Tetsugen

1980

Daughter of Time

as Fireworks Hand 2

1980

Until Evening

as Restaurant's Owner

1980

Child of the Sun

1980

Nurse's Husband

1979

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

1979

Faraway Tomorrow

1979

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

as Goichi Nishida (village chief)

1979

The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yos...

1979

The Strangling

1979

Golden Partners

as Bend master

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

as Tanejiro Shibata

1979

The Fall of Teenager

1978

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

1978

Empire of Passion

as Toichiro

1978

Love and Faith

1978

Junko's Bliss

as Taizô Sakata

1978

幽霊列車

1977

Ballad of Orin

as Mountain Man

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

as Sôiku

1976

Two Harmonicas

1976

In the Realm of the Senses

as Old Beggar

1976

Hobo General

1976

A Cheerful Yakuza

1975

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apa...

as Kinetarô Kitamura

1975

Scoundrel Boss

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartme...

as The Master

1975

Pimp Heaven

as Preacher

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

1974

The Castle of Sand

as Publican at Ebisu

1974

The Homeless

1974

Street of Joy

as Kofukuya's Owner

1974

My Way

as Yoshizo Kawamura

1974

The Key

1974

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanade...

as Tonomura

1974

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Dram...

as Sex Show Manager

1973

The Heart

as S's Father

1973

Stray Dog

1973

Love Lost in Tears

1973

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

as Shimamura

1973

Hell Riders in Kyoto

1973

A Woman’s Road

1973

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

as Shimamura

1973

Time Within Memory

1973

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shira...

as Ippei

1973

Sex and Fury

as Tokuzô Kasai

1973

Did the Red Bird Escape?

1973

Deeper Than Blue

as Shunkai

1972

Hymn

as Harumatsu

1972

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

as Nomura

1972

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

1972

祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

1972

Dear Summer Sister

as Takuzo Sakurada

1972

Turtle Geisha

as Ishibashi

1972

The Lucky Status Symbol

1972

The Erotomaniac Daimyo

1972

The Iron Crown

as Physiognomist

1972

The Rendezvous

as Murai

1971

Silence

as Prison guard

1971

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1971

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

1971

The Ceremony

as Old Chief

1971

Onna no Iji

as Nakano

1971

King of Pornography

1971

King of the Widow-Killers

1970

Evil Spirits of Japan

as Pachinko owner

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

as Saeki

1969

Gokudô Petenshi

1969

Heat Wave Island

1969

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

1969

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: F...

1968

Profound Desires of the Gods

as Higa

1968

East China Sea

1968

Strong Women, Weak Men

as Zenzo

1968

Three Resurrected Drunkards

as Old man

1968

Wind of Youth

1968

Kuroneko

as Farmer

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

1967

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967

Libido

1966

Drunken Harbor

as Doctor

1966

The Little Runaway

1966

Lost Sex

as Gonpachi

1966

Violence at Noon

as School director

1966

Captive's Island

1966

Dynamite Doctor

as Chairman

1966

The Pornographers

as Father

1966

Black Curtain

1966

Kokoro no sanmyaku

1966

The Betrayers Out!

1965

Conquest

as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura

1965

An Innocent Witch

1965

Seisaku's Wife

as Retired Man

1965

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

1965

The Start of Life

1964

Onibaba

as Ushi

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Beret Musician

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

The Irresponsible Fool

1964

The Desperate

as Chief Osawa

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

1964

Onibaba : Film Location

1963

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

1963

The School Cap

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

どん底だって平ちゃらさ

1963

Black Report

as Shinsaku Tsuda

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

1962

The King

1962

Human

as Kamegoro

1962

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

1962

Hageshī kawa

1962

Fresh Leaves

as Zenkichi Segawa

1962

The Young and Bad

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

as Rokusuke

1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

Foundry Town

as Matsunaga

1962

Tales of President Mito

as President Toyotomi

1962

Stolen Pleasure

as Goro

1962

I am the Judge

1962

Season of Farewell

1962

大吉ぼんのう鏡

1962

Nippon no obaachan

1961

Love's Family Tree

1961

Police Precinct Part 17

1961

でかんしょ風来坊

1961

Blind Devotion

as Hikozo

1961

Futaridake no taiyō

1961

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

1961

Pigs and Battleships

as Chen

1961

Shōjo

1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

as Kotani

1960

My Hometown is the Wild West

1960

The Naked Island

as Senta

1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

as Inosuke Uematsu

1960

Sixteen years old

1960

Internees of Kampili

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

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

as Kumakichi Takeda

1959

My Second Brother

as Hemmi Gengoro

1959

The Human Wall

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

as Detective Machida

1959

Four Hours of Terror

as Teppei Sasada

1959

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Sce...

1959

Good Morning

as Pushy Man

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Jap...

1959

Whistling in the morning

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1958

Endless Desire

as Ramen shop owner

1958

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

as Masumura

1958

Underwater Murder

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

Night Drum

1958

Wind, Woman and Road

as Kenta

1958

Hobo Village

1957

On This Earth

as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle

1957

Temptation

as Tobe

1957

Harbor Rats

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

1956

Actress

1956

Dotanba

1956

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

as Doctor Otsuki

1956

The Shadow of Fear

1956

Nikoyon monogatari

1956

Our Town

as Shime

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

as Shokichi

1956

快傑耶茶坊

1956

Darkness at Noon

as Uhei Matsumura

1956

Love is Lost

as Gensaku

1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

The Beauty and the Dragon

1955

Three Faces

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

as Bartender (segment 1)

1955

The Wolves

1955

Sisters

1955

Burden of Love

as Mr. Yamaguchi

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Patrolman Kuramochi

1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1954

Wakai hito-tachi

1954

Turbid Youth

1954

The Valley Between Love and Death

1954

Ditch

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Gen'ichi Inoue

1954

Cape Ashizuri

1954

The End of a Day

1954

Koina no Ginpei

1953

Gate of Hell

as Kakisuke

1953

Before Dawn

as Risaburo

1953

Yokubo

1953

Miniature

as Yamada

1953

Murahachibu

1953

Reminiscence

1953

Tower of Lilies

1952

Today is Payday

as President of Akabane Construction

1952

Violence

1952

Children of Hiroshima

as Owner of a ship

1952

Sisters of Nishijin

1952

Dedication of the Great Buddha

1951

Izayoi kaidō

1951

The Man from the Moon

1951

Story of a Beloved Wife

1951

The Tale of Genji

as Priest

1951

限りなき情熱

1951

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

The White Orchid

1951

Clothes of Deception

as Kasama

1950

Scandal

as Aoye's friend

1950

Spring Snow

as Yasuji

1950

Street of Violence

as Ango Shindo

1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest

as Waretsuku

1948

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

1948

Great X

as Matsushita

1948

Drunken Angel

as Shop Proprietor

1948

Temptation

1948

Shachō to onna tenin

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