Taiji Tonoyama

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1915-10-17 (74 years old)

Deathday

1989-04-30

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, 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 Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.

Acting

1964

Onibaba

as Ushi

1960

1949

1987

Hachiko

as Hashimoto

1948

Drunken Angel

as Shop Proprietor

1968

Kuroneko

as Farmer

1959

Good Morning

as Pushy Man

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

as Tanejiro Shibata

1966

Violence at Noon

as School director

1963

1952

Today is Payday

as President of Akabane Construction

1973

1978

1959

My Second Brother

as Hemmi Gengoro

1962

Foundry Town

as Matsunaga

1981

1966

1966

Dynamite Doctor

as Chairman

1983

Oiran

as Hachibei

1970

Evil Spirits of Japan

as Pachinko owner

1952

Children of Hiroshima

as Owner of a ship

1981

Edo Porn

as Tattooist

1979

Golden Partners

as Bend master

1962

Human

as Kamegoro

1981

Muddy River

as Man on Festival Boat

1970

1974

1974

The Castle of Sand

as Publican at Ebisu

1977

Ballad of Orin

as Mountain Man

1986

Jazz Daimyo

as Gensai

1972

The Iron Crown

as Physiognomist

1971

The Ceremony

as Old Chief

1975

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)

1974

My Way

as Yoshizo Kawamura

1964

The Desperate

as Chief Osawa

1973

Sex and Fury

as Tokuzô Kasai

1978

Junko's Bliss

as Taizô Sakata

1960

1957

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

as Senkichi Hanamura

1981

Why Not?

as Jyosyuya

1950

Scandal

as Aoye's friend

1982

Irezumi

as Horiatsu

1987

Zegen

as Shimada

1983

The Bored Samurai

as Father of Ogin

1981

Day Dream

as Guard

1972

Dear Summer Sister

as Takuzo Sakurada

1963

18 Roughs

as Murata

1972

1989

Black Rain

as Old Priest

1953

Gate of Hell

as Kakisuke

1972

Hymn

as Harumatsu

1971

Silence

as Prison guard

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

as Kumakichi Takeda

1963

Black Report

as Shinsaku Tsuda

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Patrolman Kuramochi

1956

Our Town

as Shime

1959

Four Hours of Terror

as Teppei Sasada

1953

Before Dawn

as Risaburo

1973

The Heart

as S's Father

1958

Endless Desire

as Ramen shop owner

1983

Dark Room

as Doctor(医師)

1988

Tokyo Pop

as Grandfather

1965

Conquest

as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura

1950

Street of Violence

as Ango Shindo

1967

1984

Location

as Inumaru

1948

Great X

as Matsushita

1974

Evening Primrose

as Genji's father

1965

Seisaku's Wife

as Retired Man

1973

1961

1963

Mother

as Tajima

1987

Hawaiian Dream

as Shokichi Shimamura

1941

1957

The Champion

as Pote-chan

1956

Darkness at Noon

as Uhei Matsumura

1956

Love is Lost

as Gensaku

1972

Turtle Geisha

as Ishibashi

1985

1980

Daughter of Time

as Fireworks Hand 2

1982

1962

1963

Kanto Wanderer

as Boss Izu

1966

Lost Sex

as Gonpachi

1962

Fresh Leaves

as Zenkichi Segawa

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

as Isao Hori

1980

Until Evening

as Restaurant's Owner

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

as Inosuke Uematsu

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Beret Musician

1962

Tales of President Mito

as President Toyotomi

1953

Miniature

as Yamada

1956

1955

Burden of Love

as Mr. Yamaguchi

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

as Bartender (segment 1)

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Gen'ichi Inoue

1988

Tomorrow

as Storekeeper

1957

Temptation

as Tobe

1957

On This Earth

as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle

1966

1953

1971

Onna no Iji

as Nakano

1984

The Horizon

as Tanimoto

1959

1961

1951

1975

Pimp Heaven

as Preacher

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