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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1915-10-17
Place of birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Cast
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
1972
0.00
Onibaba
1964
7.68
The Naked Island
1960
8.00
Shachō to onna tenin
1948
0.00
Fifth Movement
1981
0.00
Turbid Youth
1954
0.00
Three Faces
1955
0.00
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
0.00
Hachiko
1987
7.70
Drunken Angel
1948
7.61
Reminiscence
1953
0.00
Kuroneko
1968
7.41
Good Morning
1959
7.72
King of Pornography
1971
5.90
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
7.50
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
7.50
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
3.50
I am the Judge
1962
0.00
Violence at Noon
1966
6.20
Dotanba
1956
6.00
The Insect Woman
1963
7.38
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
0.00
Today is Payday
1952
0.00
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
4.00
Sixteen years old
1960
0.00
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
0.00
Empire of Passion
1978
7.00
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
5.60
My Second Brother
1959
6.40
Foundry Town
1962
7.60
Fruits of Passion
1981
5.40
Drunken Harbor
1966
0.00
Dynamite Doctor
1966
0.00
Koina no Ginpei
1954
0.00
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
7.20
Oiran
1983
4.80
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970
6.00
Seasonal Wind
1977
0.00
Children of Hiroshima
1952
7.10
Edo Porn
1981
6.10
Golden Partners
1979
0.00
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
6.00
The King
1962
0.00
Human
1962
6.80
Muddy River
1981
7.30
Attack at Daylight
1970
5.00
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
5.56
快傑耶茶坊
1956
0.00
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
0.00
The Castle of Sand
1974
7.40
Ballad of Orin
1977
7.14
Who's the Real Killer
1957
0.00
Jazz Daimyo
1986
5.70
Whistling in the morning
1959
0.00
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
5.00
The Iron Crown
1972
5.60
The Key
1974
4.00
The Ceremony
1971
7.00
One Passed Through Hell
1960
0.00
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975
0.00
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
6.10
East China Sea
1968
0.00
My Way
1974
5.70
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
8.00
Love's Family Tree
1961
0.00
The Desperate
1964
7.00
Sex and Fury
1973
6.23
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
0.00
Junko's Bliss
1978
2.00
Thousand Cranes
1989
7.00
Izayoi kaidō
1951
0.00
Secret
1960
0.00
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
0.00
War and Flowers
1989
0.00
Murahachibu
1953
0.00
Spring Snow
1950
0.00
Hageshī kawa
1962
0.00
Eros Eterna
1977
4.40
Song of a Traveller
1962
0.00
幽霊列車
1978
0.00
Why Not?
1981
6.40
限りなき情熱
1951
0.00
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
6.62
Child of the Sun
1980
0.00
Captive's Island
1966
6.50
Scandal
1950
6.90
Irezumi
1982
5.70
Zegen
1987
6.50
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
6.50
The Bored Samurai
1983
0.00
Dear Summer Sister
1972
4.30
18 Roughs
1963
6.60
Day Dream
1981
4.40
The Ditch
1954
7.00
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
5.90
The Rendezvous
1972
6.30
Black Rain
1989
7.50
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
6.90
Gate of Hell
1953
7.13
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
4.00
Hymn
1972
6.30
Silence
1971
7.20
Irohanihoheto
1960
0.00
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959
0.00
Stray Dog
1973
7.00
The Little Runaway
1966
1.00
Policeman's Diary
1955
6.50
The Wolves
1955
6.80
Black Report
1963
6.30
Underwater Murder
1958
0.00
The Last Swordsman
1974
5.70
The Far Road
1977
7.50
Cape Ashizuri
1954
0.00
Tetsugen
1981
0.00
Nurse's Husband
1980
0.00
Night Drum
1958
6.10
Our Town
1956
6.80
Four Hours of Terror
1959
5.70
Before Dawn
1953
0.00
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
5.50
The Heart
1973
7.80
On the Road
1982
10.00
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
7.60
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
0.00
Endless Desire
1958
6.50
An Innocent Witch
1965
7.10
The Human Wall
1959
5.00
Dark Room
1983
5.70
Tomorrow Evening
1977
0.00
River of Fireflies
1987
0.00
Harbor Rats
1957
0.00
Tokyo Pop
1988
7.30
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
7.00
Tree Without Leaves
1986
7.80
Conquest
1965
5.00
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
0.00
A Story from Echigo
1964
7.20
Love Lost in Tears
1973
0.00
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
0.00
Street of Violence
1950
6.50
A Woman’s Road
1973
0.00
Libido
1967
0.00
Hobo Village
1958
0.00
Location
1984
0.00
Great X
1948
0.00
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
6.80
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
0.00
Evening Primrose
1974
6.50
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
1962
0.00
The Shadow of Fear
1956
0.00
Seisaku's Wife
1965
7.30
Season of Farewell
1962
0.00
Wind, Woman and Road
1958
7.00
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
0.00
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
0.00
The Betrayers Out!
1966
0.00
The Strangling
1979
4.90
Deeper Than Blue
1973
0.00
Blind Devotion
1961
0.00
Time Within Memory
1973
5.00
Mother
1963
6.80
Hawaiian Dream
1987
0.00
Internees of Kampili
1960
0.00
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
0.00
The End of a Day
1954
5.00
The Champion
1957
6.00
Darkness at Noon
1956
6.60
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
0.00
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
2.00
Pigs and Battleships
1961
7.08
Love is Lost
1956
7.00
Clothes of Deception
1951
6.50
Turtle Geisha
1972
4.50
The Start of Life
1965
0.00
The Seburi Story
1985
6.33
Daughter of Time
1980
0.00
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
2.00
A Pool Without Water
1982
5.40
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
6.30
Stolen Pleasure
1962
6.80
Kanto Wanderer
1963
6.30
Lost Sex
1966
0.00
Fresh Leaves
1962
0.00
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
7.50
Until Evening
1980
0.00
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
0.00
Intentions of Murder
1964
7.10
Tales of President Mito
1962
0.00
Strange Affinity
1970
0.00
The Homeless
1974
7.50
The Young and Bad
1962
0.00
The School Cap
1963
0.00
Nippon no obaachan
1962
0.00
Tower of Lilies
1953
6.80
Miniature
1953
8.00
The Fall of Teenager
1979
2.00
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
7.80
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972
7.20
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
0.00
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
8.00
Burden of Love
1955
6.80
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
7.00
Love and Faith
1978
6.30
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
0.00
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
7.10
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
8.50
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
8.00
The White Orchid
1951
0.00
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
0.00
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
4.30
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
5.70
Ai Sureba Koso
1955
0.00
The Street Without Sun
1954
0.00
Tomorrow
1988
7.50
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
7.00
Temptation
1957
8.00
On This Earth
1957
0.00
The Pornographers
1966
7.30
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
0.00
Hobo General
1976
0.00
Temptation
1948
6.00
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
0.00
Yokubo
1953
0.00
Knock Down
1960
0.00
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
6.00
Onna no Iji
1971
0.00
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
0.00
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
0.00
The Horizon
1984
0.00
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
7.30
Actress
1956
0.00
Violence
1952
0.00
Muhō Ichidai
1957
0.00
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
0.00
Two Harmonicas
1976
0.00
Shōjo
1961
0.00
The Cards Will Tell
1960
0.00
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
0.00
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
0.00
The Tale of Genji
1951
5.50
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
0.00
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
0.00
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
0.00
Black Curtain
1966
0.00