Taiji Tonoyama
Born in Tokyo, Japan — Oct 17 1915• Died Apr 30 1989
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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.
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Ohanahan
溝呂木老人
Ai yori aoku
俊界和尚
Pro Hunter
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
The Roads Men Travel
Sone
Endless Desire
Ramen shop owner
Hachiko
Hashimoto
限りなき情熱
A-Un
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
Good Morning
Pushy Man
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
Beyond the Green Hills
Edo Porn
Tattooist
The Pornographers
Father
Police Precinct Part 17
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
Street of Violence
Ango Shindo
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
Irezumi
Horiatsu
Onibaba
Ushi
Black Rain
Old Priest
Scandal
Aoye's friend
Location
Inumaru
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
Dark Room
Doctor(医師)
Tower of Lilies
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rokusuke
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Oiran
Hachibei
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Kinagashi Bugyō
Scoundrel Boss
Stray Dog
Tora-san, the Expert
The Valley Between Love and Death
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
Eros Eterna
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Nurse's Husband
A Story from Echigo
Attack at Daylight
Saeki
Yokohama BJ Blues
Isao Hori
Night Drum
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
The Little Runaway
The Insect Woman
Foreman
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Thousand Cranes
Case of the Disjointed Murder
The Start of Life
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
The Wolves
Why Not?
Jyosyuya
Hobo General
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
Onna no Iji
Nakano
The Tale of Genji
Priest
Fresh Leaves
Zenkichi Segawa
Foundry Town
Matsunaga
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Song of the Spring Pony
Deeper Than Blue
Shunkai
Love Lost in Tears
East China Sea
Wait for Tomorrow
Inosuke Uematsu
Fruits of Passion
Customer
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
Love and Faith
The White Orchid
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
Violence at Noon
School director
Silence
Prison guard
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
Season of Farewell
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
Samurai from Nowhere
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
Zegen
Shimada
Turbid Youth
Great X
Matsushita
Captive's Island
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
Farm Girls
Kuroneko
Farmer
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Knock Down
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
Actress
The King
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
Time Within Memory
Yukyo-retsuden
A Cheerful Yakuza
The End of a Day
Our Town
Shime
Dotanba
Sakura-tai Chiru
Heat Wave Island
The School Cap
The Homeless
The Revelation of a Geisha
Miniature
Yamada
King of Pornography
Fifth Movement
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
Story of a Beloved Wife
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Pimp Heaven
Preacher
The Ceremony
Old Chief
Dear Summer Sister
Takuzo Sakurada
If Indeed One Loves
Bartender (segment 1)
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
An Innocent Witch
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
Spring Snow
Yasuji
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Rokuzô Ôkuma
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Masumura
The Irresponsible Fool
My Hometown is the Wild West
The Human Wall
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Who's the Real Killer
Frank
Nippon no obaachan
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Detective Machida
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Irohanihoheto
Tree Without Leaves
Shōjo
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
Talented Woman
King of the Widow-Killers
Futaridake no taiyō
Tomorrow
Storekeeper
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
Sisters of Nishijin
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
Hymn
Harumatsu
A Woman’s Road
Sixteen years old
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
幽霊列車
Faraway Tomorrow
Yokubo
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
Muhō Ichidai
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
The Young and Bad
The Fall of Teenager
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Senkichi Hanamura
Sisters
The Last Swordsman
The Desperate
Chief Osawa
Tokyo no Kodoku
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
Internees of Kampili
The Betrayers Out!
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
The Horizon
Tanimoto
18 Roughs
Murata
Harbor Rats
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
Street of Joy
Kofukuya's Owner
Kokoro no sanmyaku
The Cards Will Tell
Gokudô Petenshi
Golden Partners
Bend master
Cape Ashizuri
Murahachibu
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Nikoyon monogatari
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
Ditch
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Tetsugen
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
Wind of Youth
Strong Women, Weak Men
Zenzo
Violence
The Boy Who Came Back
The Iron Crown
Physiognomist
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Wakai hito-tachi
The Key
Nuclear Gypsies
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Hageshī kawa
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
Temptation
Seasonal Wind
The Champion
Pote-chan
The Strangling
Temptation
Tobe
Underwater Murder
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Human
Kamegoro
I am the Judge
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Child of the Sun
でかんしょ風来坊
Hobo Village
The Beauty and the Dragon
The Lucky Status Symbol
The Far Road
快傑耶茶坊
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
Love is Lost
Gensaku
Koina no Ginpei
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
Three Faces
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
The Shadow of Fear
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
Tomorrow Evening
The Rendezvous
Murai
One Passed Through Hell
The Man from the Moon
Mother
Tajima
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
Day Dream
Guard
Izayoi kaidō
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
Whistling in the morning
Secret
War and Flowers
Two Harmonicas
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
Song of a Traveller
River of Fireflies
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
Strange Affinity
Reminiscence
大吉ぼんのう鏡
On the Road
Black Curtain
The Naked Island
Senta
Libido
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
Blind Devotion
Hikozo
Love's Family Tree
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
Hooligans on Buggies
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
Before Dawn
Risaburo
The Heart
S's Father
Yakuza sensei
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
Shachō to onna tenin
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
Who Will Judge Me?
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Goichi Nishida (village chief)
Onibaba : Film Location
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
Violent Street
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
Sacred Koya
Storming Squadron