Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama (73)

1915-10-17 - 1989-04-30 | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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.

On Movies

  • Thousand Cranes
  • Black Rain
  • Tomorrow
  • Tokyo Pop
  • Hawaiian Dream
  • Hachiko
  • Zegen
  • River of Fireflies
  • Tree Without Leaves
  • Jazz Daimyo
  • The Seburi Story
  • Song of the Spring Pony
  • Location
  • The Horizon
  • Legend of the Eight Samurai
  • Dark Room
  • The Ballad of Narayama
  • Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
  • The Bored Samurai
  • Oiran
  • Tora-san, the Expert
  • Irezumi
  • A Ghost Love Story of Japan
  • On the Road
  • A Pool Without Water
  • Fifth Movement
  • Edo Porn
  • Day Dream
  • Fruits of Passion
  • Yokohama BJ Blues
  • Muddy River
  • Why Not?
  • Tetsugen
  • Daughter of Time
  • Until Evening
  • Nurse's Husband
  • Tora-san's Dream of Spring
  • Golden Partners
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • The Fall of Teenager
  • Empire of Passion
  • Love and Faith
  • Ballad of Orin
  • Tomorrow Evening
  • The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
  • The Far Road
  • Seasonal Wind
  • Eros Eterna
  • Case of the Disjointed Murder
  • The Gate of Youth Part 2
  • In the Realm of the Senses
  • Pimp Heaven
  • A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
  • Evening Primrose
  • The Last Swordsman
  • The Castle of Sand
  • The Homeless
  • Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
  • My Way
  • Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
  • The Heart
  • Stray Dog
  • Love Lost in Tears
  • Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
  • Hell Riders in Kyoto
  • A Woman’s Road
  • Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
  • Time Within Memory
  • Sex and Fury
  • Did the Red Bird Escape?
  • Deeper Than Blue
  • Hymn
  • Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
  • The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
  • Dear Summer Sister
  • Turtle Geisha
  • The Lucky Status Symbol
  • The Erotomaniac Daimyo
  • The Iron Crown
  • The Rendezvous
  • Silence
  • Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
  • The Ceremony
  • Onna no Iji
  • King of Pornography
  • King of the Widow-Killers
  • Evil Spirits of Japan
  • Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
  • Hooligans on Buggies
  • The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
  • The Revelation of a Geisha
  • Yukyo-retsuden
  • Attack at Daylight
  • Gokudô Petenshi
  • East China Sea
  • Strong Women, Weak Men
  • Three Resurrected Drunkards
  • Seishun no kaze
  • Kuroneko
  • Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
  • Libido
  • Drunken Harbor
  • The Little Runaway
  • Lost Sex
  • Violence at Noon
  • Captive's Island
  • Dynamite Doctor
  • The Pornographers
  • Kokoro no sanmyaku
  • The Betrayers Out!
  • Conquest
  • An Innocent Witch
  • Seisaku's Wife
  • The Start of Life
  • Onibaba
  • Intentions of Murder
  • A Story from Echigo
  • The Irresponsible Fool
  • The Desperate
  • Samurai from Nowhere
  • Kiri ni Kieta Hito
  • The School Cap
  • Kanto Wanderer
  • The Insect Woman
  • Mother
  • Bamboo Doll of Echizen
  • 18 Roughs
  • Black Report
  • Beyond the Green Hills
  • The King
  • Human
  • Chibusa o daku musume tachi
  • Fresh Leaves
  • The Young and Bad
  • Akitsu Hot Springs
  • Song of a Traveller
  • Foundry Town
  • Tales of President Mito
  • Stolen Pleasure
  • Season of Farewell
  • Nippon no obaachan
  • Blind Devotion
  • Pigs and Battleships
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
  • Ore no furusato wa dai seibu
  • The Naked Island
  • Chikuhō no kodomotachi
  • Wait for Tomorrow
  • Sixteen years old
  • Internees of Kampili
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
  • A Woman’s Uphill Slope
  • The Cards Will Tell
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
  • My Second Brother
  • The Human Wall
  • Four Hours of Terror
  • Good Morning
  • Tokyo no Kodoku
  • Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
  • Whistling in the morning
  • Lucky Dragon No. 5
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • Endless Desire
  • The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
  • The Boy Who Came Back
  • Night Drum
  • Wind, Woman and Road
  • Hobo Village
  • On This Earth
  • Temptation
  • Harbor Rats
  • A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
  • The Champion
  • Birth of a Jazz Maiden
  • Muhō Ichidai
  • Actress
  • Dotanba
  • Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
  • The Shadow of Fear
  • Nikoyon monogatari
  • Our Town
  • Darkness at Noon
  • Love is Lost
  • Policeman's Diary, Part 2
  • The Beauty and the Dragon
  • The Wolves
  • Burden of Love
  • Policeman's Diary
  • Turbid Youth
  • The Ditch
  • Cape Ashizuri
  • The End of a Day
  • Gate of Hell
  • Miniature
  • Murahachibu
  • Reminiscence
  • Tower of Lilies
  • Children of Hiroshima
  • Sisters of Nishijin
  • Dedication of the Great Buddha
  • Story of a Beloved Wife
  • The Tale of Genji
  • 限りなき情熱
  • Who Will Judge Me?
  • The White Orchid
  • Clothes of Deception
  • Scandal
  • Spring Snow
  • Street of Violence
  • Ishimatsu of the Forest
  • The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
  • Great X
  • Drunken Angel
  • Temptation
  • The Ball at the Anjo House
  • Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  • The Battle of Kawanakajima

On Series

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