Taiji Tonoyama
Date of Birth:
Oct 17, 1915

Place of Birth:
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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.

filmography:

War and Flowers

1989

Thousand Cranes

1989

1989

1988

Tomorrow

1988

Sakura-tai Chiru

1988

1987

Zegen

1987

River of Fireflies

1987

Hachiko

1987

Tree Without Leaves

1986

1986

Song of the Spring Pony

1985

The Seburi Story

1985

Nuclear Gypsies

1985

Location

1984

1984

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

The Bored Samurai

1983

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

1983

Legend of the Eight Samurai

1983

1983

Oiran

1983

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

1982

Irezumi

1982

Tora-san, the Expert

1982

1982

A Pool Without Water

1982

Edo Porn

1981

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

1981

1981

Why Not?

1981

Tetsugen

1981

1981

Fruits of Passion

1981

Nurse's Husband

1980

1980

Daughter of Time

1980

Child of the Sun

1980

The Fall of Teenager

1979

1979

Faraway Tomorrow

1979

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

1979

Golden Partners

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

1978

Empire of Passion

1978

1978

1978

1978

Case of the Disjointed Murder

1977

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

1977

1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2

1977

Tomorrow Evening

1977

1977

1977

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

1977

1977

1976

1976

In the Realm of the Senses

1976

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

1975

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

1975

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

1975

Evening Primrose

1974

1974

Red Light District: Gonna Get Out

1974

The Castle of Sand

1974

My Way

1974

The Last Swordsman

1974

The Key

1974

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

1974

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

1974

Deeper Than Blue

1973

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

1973

Did the Red Bird Escape?

1973

1973

1973

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

1973

Hell Riders in Kyoto

1973

1973

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

1973

Love Lost in Tears

1973

A Woman’s Road

1973

Time Within Memory

1973

Dear Summer Sister

1972

1972

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

1972

The Lucky Status Symbol

1972

Hymn

1972

The Erotomaniac Daimyo

1972

1972

1972

祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

1972

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

1972

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1971

Silence

1971

1971

King of the Widow-Killers

1971

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

1971

King of Pornography

1971

1971

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

1970

Hooligans on Buggies

1970

Attack at Daylight

1970

The Revelation of a Geisha

1970

1970

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

1970

Strange Affinity

1970

Evil Spirits of Japan

1970

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

1969

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

1969

Strong Women, Weak Men

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

1968

Three Resurrected Drunkards

1968

1968

Kuroneko

1968

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967

Libido

1967

Violence at Noon

1966

The Betrayers Out!

1966

Kokoro no sanmyaku

1966

Lost Sex

1966

The Pornographers

1966

Captive's Island

1966

1966

Dynamite Doctor

1966

The Little Runaway

1966

The Start of Life

1965

Conquest

1965

1965

An Innocent Witch

1965

Intentions of Murder

1964

1964

Onibaba

1964

The Irresponsible Fool

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

1963

The Insect Woman

1963

Mother

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

1963

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

1963

1963

1963

1963

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

1963

Human

1962

1962

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

1962

Season of Farewell

1962

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

The King

1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

1962

Tales of President Mito

1962

Stolen Pleasure

1962

1962

大吉ぼんのう鏡

1962

The Young and Bad

1962

Nippon no obaachan

1962

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

1961

Love's Family Tree

1961

1961

Pigs and Battleships

1961

Wait for Tomorrow

1960

1960

One Passed Through Hell

1960

The Naked Island

1960

Internees of Kampili

1960

1960

Sixteen years old

1960

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

1960

Secret

1960

Whistling in the morning

1959

Four Hours of Terror

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5

1959

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

1959

My Second Brother

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

1959

1959

Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

1958

1958

1958

Underwater Murder

1958

Wind, Woman and Road

1958

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

1957

1957

1957

1957

Who's The Real Killer

1957

1957

1957

Actress

1956

The Shadow of Fear

1956

Darkness at Noon

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

1956

Nikoyon monogatari

1956

Our Town

1956

Dotanba

1956

1956

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

1956

快傑耶茶坊

1956

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

1955

Policeman's Diary

1955

1955

1955

The Beauty and the Dragon

1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1955

1955

Koina no Ginpei

1954

The Street Without Sun

1954

1954

1954

1954

The End of a Day

1954

1953

Yokubo

1953

1953

1953

1953

Tower of Lilies

1953

1953

Today is Payday

1952

Dedication of the Great Buddha

1952

Violence

1952

Sisters of Nishijin

1952

Children of Hiroshima

1952

The White Orchid

1951

Clothes of Deception

1951

限りなき情熱

1951

Story of a Beloved Wife

1951

1951

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

Street of Violence

1950

Scandal

1950

1950

Ishimatsu of the Forest

1949

Great X

1948

Shachō to onna tenin

1948

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

1948

1948

1948

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947

The Ball at the Anjo House

1947

The Battle of Kawanakajima

1941