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 Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.

Known For

In the Realm of the Senses

Pro Hunter

Ai yori aoku

The Roads Men Travel

Ohanahan

The Gate of Youth Part 2

Sex and Fury

Edo Porn

All Movies (302)

• Thousand Cranes1989
• Black Rain1989 · as Old Priest
• War and Flowers1989
• Tomorrow1988 · as Storekeeper
• Tokyo Pop1988 · as Grandfather
• Sakura-tai Chiru1988
• Hawaiian Dream1987 · as Shokichi Shimamura
• Hachiko1987 · as Hashimoto
• Zegen1987 · as Shimada
• River of Fireflies1987
• Tree Without Leaves1986
• Jazz Daimyo1986 · as Gensai
• The Seburi Story1985 · as Kamezo
• Nuclear Gypsies1985
• Song of the Spring Pony1985
• Location1984 · as Inumaru
• The Horizon1984 · as Tanimoto
• The Fox Dancing in the Dusk1984
• Legend of the Eight Samurai1983 · as Hikojii
• Dark Room1983 · as Doctor(医師)
• The Ballad of Narayama1983 · as Teruyan
• Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha1983
• The Bored Samurai1983 · as Father of Ogin
• Oiran1983 · as Hachibei
• Sacred Koya1983
• Tora-san, the Expert1982
• Irezumi1982 · as Horiatsu
• A Ghost Love Story of Japan1982
• On the Road1982
• A Pool Without Water1982 · as Pharmacist
• Fifth Movement1981
• Edo Porn1981 · as Tattooist
• Day Dream1981 · as Guard
• Fruits of Passion1981 · as Customer
• Yokohama BJ Blues1981 · as Isao Hori
• Muddy River1981 · as Man on Festival Boat
• Eijanaika1981 · as Jyosyuya
• Tetsugen1981
• Daughter of Time1980 · as Fireworks Hand 2
• Until Evening1980 · as Restaurant's Owner
• Child of the Sun1980
• Nurse's Husband1980
• Tora-san's Dream of Spring1979
• Faraway Tomorrow1979
• The Bride of the Ghost Lake1979 · as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
• The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case1979
• The Strangling1979
• Golden Partners1979 · as Bend master
• Vengeance Is Mine1979 · as Tanejiro Shibata
• The Fall of Teenager1979
• Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo1978
• Empire of Passion1978 · as Toichiro
• Love and Faith1978
• Junko's Bliss1978 · as Taizô Sakata
• Ghost Train1978
• Ballad of Orin1977 · as Mountain Man
• Tomorrow Evening1977
• The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro1977
• The Far Road1977
• Seasonal Wind1977
• Eros Eterna1977
• Case of the Disjointed Murder1977
• The Gate of Youth Part 21977
• Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow1977 · as Sôiku
• Two Harmonicas1976
• In the Realm of the Senses1976 · as Old Beggar
• Hobo General1976
• A Cheerful Yakuza1976
• Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment1975 · as Kinetarô Kitamura
• Scoundrel Boss1975
• Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 21975 · as The Master
• Pimp Heaven1975 · as Preacher
• Housewife's Experience: Tenement1975 · as Harukichi
• 青春トルコ日記 処女すべり1975
• A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse1975 · as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
• Evening Primrose1974 · as Genji's father
• The Last Swordsman1974
• The Castle of Sand1974 · as Publican at Ebisu
• The Homeless1974
• Street of Joy1974 · as Kofukuya's Owner
• My Way1974 · as Yoshizo Kawamura
• The Key1974
• Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya1974 · as Tonomura
• Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama1974 · as Sex Show Manager
• The Heart1973 · as S's Father
• Stray Dog1973
• Love Lost in Tears1973
• Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby1973 · as Shimamura
• Hell Riders in Kyoto1973
• A Woman’s Road1973
• Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer1973 · as Shimamura
• Time Within Memory1973
• Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa1973 · as Ippei
• Sex and Fury1973 · as Tokuzô Kasai
• Did the Red Bird Escape?1973
• Deeper Than Blue1973 · as Shunkai
• Hymn1972 · as Harumatsu
• Afternoon Affair: Rear Window1972 · as Nomura
• The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats1972
• It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!1972
• Dear Summer Sister1972 · as Takuzo Sakurada
• Turtle Geisha1972 · as Ishibashi
• The Lucky Status Symbol1972
• The Erotomaniac Daimyo1972
• Kanawa1972 · as Physiognomist
• The Rendezvous1972 · as Murai
• Umarekawatta Tamegorō1972 · as Tokuichi Ōnuma
• Silence1971 · as Prison guard
• Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha1971
• Evil Spirits in the Darkness1971
• The Ceremony1971 · as Old Chief
• Onna no Iji1971 · as Nakano
• King of Pornography1971
• King of the Widow-Killers1971
• Evil Spirits of Japan1970 · as Pachinko owner
• Live Today, Die Tomorrow!1970
• Hooligans on Buggies1970
• The Kingpin of Fair Ladies1970
• The Revelation of a Geisha1970
• Yukyo-retsuden1970
• Strange Affinity1970
• Attack at Daylight1970 · as Saeki
• Gokudô Petenshi1969
• Heat Wave Island1969
• Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!1969
• Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting1969
• Profound Desires of the Gods1968 · as Higa
• East China Sea1968
• Strong Women, Weak Men1968 · as Zenzo
• Three Resurrected Drunkards1968 · as Old man
• Wind of Youth1968
• Kuroneko1968 · as Farmer
• The House of the Sleeping Virgins1968
• Japanese Summer: Double Suicide1967
• Libido1967
• Drunken Harbor1966 · as Doctor
• The Little Runaway1966
• Lost Sex1966 · as Gonpachi
• Violence at Noon1966 · as School director
• Captive's Island1966
• Dynamite Doctor1966 · as Chairman
• The Pornographers1966 · as Father
• Black Curtain1966
• Kokoro no sanmyaku1966
• The Betrayers Out!1966
• Conquest1965 · as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
• Escape and the Law1965
• An Innocent Witch1965
• Seisaku's Wife1965 · as Retired Man
• Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy1965
• The Start of Life1965
• Onibaba1964 · as Ushi
• Intentions of Murder1964 · as Beret Musician
• A Story from Echigo1964
• The Irresponsible Fool1964
• The Desperate1964 · as Chief Osawa
• Samurai from Nowhere1964
• Onibaba : Film Location1964
• Kiri ni Kieta Hito1963
• The School Cap1963
• Kanto Wanderer1963 · as Boss Izu
• The Insect Woman1963 · as Foreman
• Mother1963 · as Tajima
• Bamboo Doll of Echizen1963 · as Monk
• 18 Roughs1963 · as Murata
• Raised on an Island1963
• どん底だって平ちゃらさ1963
• Violent Street1963
• Black Report1963 · as Shinsaku Tsuda
• Beyond the Green Hills1963
• The King1962
• Human1962 · as Kamegoro
• Farm Girls1962
• Hageshī kawa1962
• Fresh Leaves1962 · as Zenkichi Segawa
• The Young and Bad1962
• Akitsu Hot Springs1962 · as Rokusuke
• Song of a Traveller1962
• Foundry Town1962 · as Matsunaga
• Tales of President Mito1962 · as President Toyotomi
• Stolen Pleasure1962 · as Goro
• I am the Judge1962
• Season of Farewell1962
• 大吉ぼんのう鏡1962
• Nippon no obaachan1962
• Love's Family Tree1961
• Police Precinct Part 171961
• でかんしょ風来坊1961
• Blind Devotion1961 · as Hikozo
• Futaridake no taiyō1961
• Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman1961
• Pigs and Battleships1961 · as Chen
• Shōjo1961
• The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 41961 · as Kotani
• My Hometown is the Wild West1960
• The Legendary Hell1960 · as Daihachi
• The Naked Island1960 · as Senta
• Chikuhō no kodomotachi1960
• Storming Squadron1960
• Wait for Tomorrow1960 · as Inosuke Uematsu
• Sixteen years old1960
• Internees of Kampili1960
• Yakuza sensei1960
• The Last Trump Card1960 · as Seitaro Koshimura
• The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 31960
• A Woman’s Uphill Slope1960
• Irohanihoheto1960
• One Passed Through Hell1960
• Secret1960
• Knock Down1960
• The Cards Will Tell1960
• The Prickly Mouthed Geisha1959 · as Kumakichi Takeda
• My Second Brother1959 · as Hemmi Gengoro
• The Human Wall1959
• A Killed Stewardess: White or Black1959 · as Detective Machida
• Four Hours of Terror1959 · as Teppei Sasada
• Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene1959
• Good Morning1959 · as Pushy Man
• Tokyo no Kodoku1959
• Talented Woman1959
• Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan1959
• Whistling in the Morning1959
• Lucky Dragon No. 51959
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959
• Endless Desire1958 · as Ramen shop owner
• The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow1958 · as Masumura
• Hanayome no teikō1958 · as Yoshimaro Akiyama
• Underwater Murder1958
• The Boy Who Came Back1958 · as Detective Shimamoto
• Night Drum1958
• Wind, Woman and Road1958 · as Kenta
• Hobo Village1958
• On This Earth1957 · as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
• Temptation1957 · as Tobe
• Harbor Rats1957
• A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era1957 · as Kurazo
• Who's the Real Killer1957 · as Frank
• The Champion1957 · as Pote-chan
• Birth of a Jazz Maiden1957 · as Senkichi Hanamura
• Muhō Ichidai1957
• Actress1956
• Dotanba1956
• Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers1956 · as Doctor Otsuki
• The Shadow of Fear1956
• Nikoyon monogatari1956
• Our Town1956 · as Shime
• Shiawase wa doko ni1956 · as Shokichi
• 快傑耶茶坊1956
• Darkness at Noon1956 · as Uhei Matsumura
• Love is Lost1956 · as Gensaku
• Policeman's Diary, Part 21955
• The Beauty and the Dragon1955
• Three Faces1955
• If Indeed One Loves1955 · as Bartender (segment 1)
• The Wolves1955
• Sisters1955
• Burden of Love1955 · as Mr. Yamaguchi
• Policeman's Diary1955 · as Patrolman Kuramochi
• The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes1955
• Wakai hito-tachi1954
• Turbid Youth1954
• The Valley Between Love and Death1954
• Ditch1954
• The Street Without Sun1954 · as Gen'ichi Inoue
• Cape Ashizuri1954
• The End of a Day1954
• Koina no Ginpei1954
• Gate of Hell1953 · as Kakisuke
• Before Dawn1953 · as Risaburo
• Yokubo1953
• Miniature1953 · as Yamada
• Murahachibu1953
• Reminiscence1953
• Tower of Lilies1953
• Today is Payday1952 · as President of Akabane Construction
• Violence1952
• Children of Hiroshima1952 · as Owner of a ship
• Taki no Shiraito1952 · as Fukuichi
• Sisters of Nishijin1952
• Dedication of the Great Buddha1952
• Izayoi kaidō1951
• The Man from the Moon1951
• Story of a Beloved Wife1951
• Saijoke no kyoen1951
• The Tale of Genji1951 · as Priest
• 限りなき情熱1951
• Who Will Judge Me?1951
• The White Orchid1951
• Clothes of Deception1951 · as Kasama
• Scandal1950 · as Aoye's friend
• Spring Snow1950 · as Yasuji
• Town of Violence1950 · as Ango Shindo
• Ishimatsu of the Forest1949 · as Waretsuku
• The Most Beautiful Day of My Life1948
• Great X1948 · as Matsushita
• Drunken Angel1948 · as Shop Proprietor
• Temptation1948
• Shachō to onna tenin1948
• The Ball at the Anjo House1947 · as Yoshida
• Record of a Tenement Gentleman1947 · as Photographer
• The Battle of Kawanakajima1941 · as Rokuzô Ôkuma
• Toumei na kisetsu—

All TV Shows (6)

• Kinagashi Bugyō1981
• Pro Hunter1981
• A-Un1980
• The Roads Men Travel1976 · as Sone
• Ai yori aoku1972 · as 俊界和尚
• Ohanahan1966 · as 溝呂木老人