Taiji Tonoyama
Department: Acting
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
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
1972
Onibaba
1964
The Naked Island
1960
Shachō to onna tenin
1948
Fifth Movement
1981
Turbid Youth
1954
Three Faces
1955
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
Hachiko
1987
Drunken Angel
1948
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
Reminiscence
1953
Kuroneko
1968
Good Morning
1959
King of Pornography
1971
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
I am the Judge
1962
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
Violence at Noon
1966
Dotanba
1956
The Insect Woman
1963
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
Today is Payday
1952
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
Sixteen years old
1960
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
Empire of Passion
1978
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Foundry Town
1962
My Second Brother
1959
Fruits of Passion
1981
Dynamite Doctor
1966
Drunken Harbor
1966
Koina no Ginpei
1954
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
Oiran
1983
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970
Seasonal Wind
1977
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Edo Porn
1981
Golden Partners
1979
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
1974
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
The King
1962
Human
1962
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
Muddy River
1981
Attack at Daylight
1970
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
快傑耶茶坊
1956
Street of Joy
1974
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
The Castle of Sand
1974
Ballad of Orin
1977
Who's the Real Killer
1957
Jazz Daimyo
1986
Whistling in the morning
1959
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
The Iron Crown
1972
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974
The Key
1974
The Ceremony
1971
One Passed Through Hell
1960
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
East China Sea
1968
My Way
1974
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Love's Family Tree
1961
The Desperate
1964
Sex and Fury
1973
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
1977
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
Junko's Bliss
1978
Thousand Cranes
1989
Izayoi kaidō
1951
Secret
1960
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
War and Flowers
1989
Murahachibu
1953
Spring Snow
1950
Hageshī kawa
1962
Eros Eterna
1977
Song of a Traveller
1962
幽霊列車
1978
Why Not?
1981
限りなき情熱
1951
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Child of the Sun
1980
Captive's Island
1966
Scandal
1950
Irezumi
1982
Zegen
1987
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
The Bored Samurai
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
Ditch
1954
18 Roughs
1963
Day Dream
1981
Dear Summer Sister
1972
The Rendezvous
1972
Black Rain
1989
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Gate of Hell
1953
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
Hymn
1972
Silence
1971
Irohanihoheto
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959
Stray Dog
1973
The Little Runaway
1966
Policeman's Diary
1955
The Wolves
1955
Black Report
1963
Underwater Murder
1958
The Last Swordsman
1974
Cape Ashizuri
1954
The Far Road
1977
Nurse's Husband
1980
Tetsugen
1981
Night Drum
1958
Our Town
1956
Four Hours of Terror
1959
Before Dawn
1953
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
The Heart
1973
On the Road
1982
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Endless Desire
1958
An Innocent Witch
1965
The Human Wall
1959
Dark Room
1983
Tomorrow Evening
1977
River of Fireflies
1987
Harbor Rats
1957
Tokyo Pop
1988
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
Conquest
1965
Tree Without Leaves
1986
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
A Story from Echigo
1964
Love Lost in Tears
1973
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Street of Violence
1950
A Woman’s Road
1973
Libido
1967
Hobo Village
1958
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
Location
1984
Great X
1948
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
Evening Primrose
1974
Farm Girls
1962
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Seisaku's Wife
1965
Season of Farewell
1962
Wind, Woman and Road
1958
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
The Betrayers Out!
1966
The Strangling
1979
Deeper Than Blue
1973
Blind Devotion
1961
Time Within Memory
1973
Mother
1963
Hawaiian Dream
1987
Internees of Kampili
1960
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
The End of a Day
1954
The Champion
1957
Darkness at Noon
1956
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
Pigs and Battleships
1961
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
Love is Lost
1956
Clothes of Deception
1951
Turtle Geisha
1972
The Start of Life
1965
The Seburi Story
1985
Daughter of Time
1980
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
A Pool Without Water
1982
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Stolen Pleasure
1962
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
Kanto Wanderer
1963
Lost Sex
1966
Fresh Leaves
1962
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
Until Evening
1980
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
Intentions of Murder
1964
Tales of President Mito
1962
Strange Affinity
1970
The Homeless
1974
The Young and Bad
1962
The School Cap
1963
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Tower of Lilies
1953
Miniature
1953
The Fall of Teenager
1979
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Burden of Love
1955
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
Love and Faith
1978
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
The White Orchid
1951
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
If Indeed One Loves
1955
The Street Without Sun
1954
Tomorrow
1988
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
Temptation
1957
On This Earth
1957
The Pornographers
1966
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
Hobo General
1976
Temptation
1948
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
Yokubo
1953
Knock Down
1960
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Onna no Iji
1971
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
The Horizon
1984
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
Actress
1956
Violence
1952
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
Two Harmonicas
1976
Shōjo
1961
The Cards Will Tell
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
The Tale of Genji
1951
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
Black Curtain
1966
Pimp Heaven
1975
Wind of Youth
1968
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
Profound Desires of the Gods
1968
Sisters
1955
The Man from the Moon
1951
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
Heat Wave Island
1969
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979
Scoundrel Boss
1975
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
Sacred Koya
1983
Talented Woman
1959
Yakuza sensei
1960
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
Violent Street
1963
Storming Squadron
1960
The Roads Men Travel
1976
A-Un
1980
Kinagashi Bugyō
1981
Ai yori aoku
1972
Ohanahan
1966
Pro Hunter
1981