
Taiji Tonoyama
Born October 17, 1915 · Kobe, Japon
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.
Notable Appearances
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Empire of Passion

Onibaba

Vengeance Is Mine

A Pool Without Water

Sex and Fury

Scandal

Fruits of Passion

Hachiko

The Castle of Sand

Good Morning

Kuroneko

Profound Desires of the Gods

Pigs and Battleships

The Naked Island

Gate of Hell

The Insect Woman

Edo Porn

Black Rain

Seisaku's Wife

Oiran

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

Legend of the Eight Samurai

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

The Erotomaniac Daimyo

Day Dream

Intentions of Murder

The Pornographers

Ballad of Orin

Silence

Dark Room

Kanawa

Tokyo Pop

Yokohama BJ Blues

The Ceremony

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

Tora-san, the Expert

Eijanaika

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

Pimp Heaven

Faraway Tomorrow

The Seburi Story

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

The Rendezvous

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Endless Desire

Kokoro no sanmyaku

Hawaiian Dream

Akitsu Hot Springs

Zegen

Irezumi

Strong Women, Weak Men

Muddy River

Sorrow Is Only for Women

Lucky Dragon No. 5

The Key

The Ball at the Anjo House

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Tower of Lilies

Children of Hiroshima

The Revelation of a Geisha

Tomorrow Evening

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

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

Nuclear Gypsies

Samurai from Nowhere

Foundry Town

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

Violence at Noon

King of Pornography

Turtle Geisha

Street of Joy

The Gate of Youth Part 2

Eros Eterna

My Second Brother

Night Drum

The Strangling

Story of a Beloved Wife

Fifth Movement

The Telephone Rings in the Evening

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

On This Earth

Darkness at Noon

The End of a Day

Miniature

Hobo General

My Hometown is the Wild West

Evening Primrose

Sakura-tai Chiru

If Indeed One Loves

Dear Summer Sister

Conquest

Tree Without Leaves

Love and Faith

限りなき情熱

The Human Wall

Stray Dog

Until Evening

The Lucky Status Symbol

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

The Little Runaway

Dedication of the Great Buddha

A Story from Echigo

Attack at Daylight

Love is Lost

Hageshī kawa

Beyond the Green Hills

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

Shōjo

I am the Judge

Clothes of Deception

East China Sea

Four Hours of Terror

Cape Ashizuri

Harbor Rats

The Young and Bad

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Lost Sex

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

Freedom School

The Homeless

Three Resurrected Drunkards

The Famous Wanderer

The Valley Between Love and Death

Stolen Pleasure

Today is Payday

Temptation

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

My Way

Wait for Tomorrow

Hymn

Saijoke no kyoen

Human

Murahachibu

Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story

Nikoyon monogatari

Our Town

Yakuza sensei

The Wolves

Futaridake no taiyō

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

Deeper Than Blue

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

Black Report

Nippon no obaachan

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

Ishimatsu of the Forest

The Last Swordsman

Desire

The Tale of Genji

The Cards Will Tell

Sisters of Nishijin

The Beauty and the Dragon

The Betrayers Out!

The Three Faces

Burden of Love

Did the Red Bird Escape?

Tomorrow

War and Flowers

Dynamite Doctor

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

Knock Down

Actress

Seasonal Wind

Before the Dawn

Storming Squadron

Love's Family Tree

Spring Snow

Jazz Daimyo

A Cheerful Yakuza

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Wakai hito-tachi

Evil Spirits of Japan

River of Fireflies

King of the Widow-Killers

The Champion

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

The Battle of Kawanakajima

Tokyo no Kodoku

Location

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

Hooligans on Buggies

Ditch

青春トルコ日記 処女すべり

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

The Far Road

The Street Without Sun

The Fox Dancing in the Dusk

Policeman's Diary

Two Harmonicas

Kanto Wanderer

Junko's Bliss

Mother

The Legendary Hell

Drunken Harbor

Talented Woman

The Shadow of Fear

Great X

Captive's Island

Violent Street

The Start of Life

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

The Boy Who Came Back

Onna no Iji

Wind of Youth

Who's the Real Killer

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

Wind, Woman and Road

The Bored Samurai

Turbid Youth

Reminiscence

An Innocent Witch

Temptation

Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

The Horizon

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

Town of Violence

Time Within Memory

Women of Ginza

Season of Farewell

Thousand Cranes

Farm Girls

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

Scoundrel Boss

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

The Heart

Yukyo-retsuden

Blind Devotion

The Man from the Moon

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

Irohanihoheto

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

Ghost Train

Magistrate of the Floating World

Secret

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

The Desperate

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

Fresh Leaves

Police Precinct Part 17

Snowy Night Duel

Heat Wave Island

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

Sixteen years old

Koina no Ginpei

The King

Violence

Whistling in the Morning

The Irresponsible Fool

The White Orchid

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

Golden Partners

It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

Love Lost in Tears

Libido

Umarekawatta Tamegorō

Sacred Koya

18 Roughs

Strange Affinity

A Woman’s Road

Tetsugen

Internees of Kampili

Song of a Traveller

Child of the Sun

Escape and the Law

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

Hanayome no teikō

Tales of President Mito

Who Will Judge Me?

One Passed Through Hell

The Last Trump Card

The End of the War

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

Dotanba

Black Curtain

Hell Riders in Kyoto

Taki no Shiraito

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Gokudô Petenshi

Muhō Ichidai

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

Sisters

Izayoi kaidō

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

Raised on an Island

大吉ぼんのう鏡

Shiawase wa doko ni

Haha sakura

Daughter of Time

The School Cap

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