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

Ai yori aoku
1972
Ohanahan
1966
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Sex and Fury
1973
Pro Hunter
1981
Drunken Angel
1948
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Empire of Passion
1978
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
Irezumi
1982
Fruits of Passion
1981
The Roads Men Travel
1977

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
318
1989
Thousand Cranes
1989
War and Flowers
1989
Black Rain
as Old Priest
1988
Tokyo Pop
as Grandfather
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
Tomorrow
as Storekeeper
1987
Hachiko
as Hashimoto
1987
Zegen
as Shimada
1987
River of Fireflies
1987
Hawaiian Dream
as Shokichi Shimamura
1986
Jazz Daimyo
as Gensai
1986
Tree Without Leaves
1985
Nuclear Gypsies
1985
The Seburi Story
as Kamezo
1985
Song of the Spring Pony
1984
Location
as Inumaru
1984
The Horizon
as Tanimoto
1984
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1983
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
as Teruyan
1983
Oiran
as Hachibei
1983
The Bored Samurai
as Father of Ogin
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
as Hikojii
1983
Dark Room
as Doctor(医師)
1983
Sacred Koya
1982
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
Irezumi
as Horiatsu
1982
On the Road
1982
A Pool Without Water
as Pharmacist
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
1981
Fifth Movement
1981
Fruits of Passion
as Customer
1981
Edo Porn
as Tattooist
1981
Muddy River
as Man on Festival Boat
1981
Eijanaika
as Jyosyuya
1981
Day Dream
as Guard
1981
Tetsugen
1981
Yokohama BJ Blues
as Isao Hori
1981
Magistrate of the Floating World
1981
Kinagashi Bugyō
1981
Pro Hunter
1980
Child of the Sun
1980
Nurse's Husband
1980
Daughter of Time
as Fireworks Hand 2
1980
Until Evening
as Restaurant's Owner
1980
A-Un
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
as Tanejiro Shibata
1979
Golden Partners
as Bend master
1979
The Strangling
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
1979
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1978
Empire of Passion
as Toichiro
1978
Junko's Bliss
as Taizô Sakata
1978
Ghost Train
1978
Love and Faith
1978
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1977
Seasonal Wind
1977
Ballad of Orin
as Mountain Man
1977
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
as Sôiku
1977
Eros Eterna
1977
The Far Road
1977
Tomorrow Evening
1977
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
The Roads Men Travel
as Sone
1976
In the Realm of the Senses
as Old Beggar
1976
Hobo General
1976
Two Harmonicas
1976
A Cheerful Yakuza
1975
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
as Kinetarô Kitamura
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
as The Master
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
as Harukichi
1975
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
1975
Pimp Heaven
as Preacher
1975
Scoundrel Boss
1975
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1974
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
as Tonomura
1974
Street of Joy
as Kofukuya's Owner
1974
The Castle of Sand
as Publican at Ebisu
1974
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
as Sex Show Manager
1974
The Key
1974
My Way
as Yoshizo Kawamura
1974
The Last Swordsman
1974
Evening Primrose
as Genji's father
1974
The Homeless
1973
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
as Shimamura
1973
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
as Shimamura
1973
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
as Ippei
1973
Sex and Fury
as Tokuzô Kasai
1973
Stray Dog
1973
The Heart
as S's Father
1973
Love Lost in Tears
1973
A Woman’s Road
1973
Deeper Than Blue
as Shunkai
1973
Time Within Memory
1973
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1972
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
Kanawa
as Physiognomist
1972
Dear Summer Sister
as Takuzo Sakurada
1972
The Rendezvous
as Murai
1972
Hymn
as Harumatsu
1972
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
Turtle Geisha
as Ishibashi
1972
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
as Nomura
1972
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
as Tokuichi Ōnuma
1972
Ai yori aoku
as 俊界和尚
1971
King of Pornography
1971
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
The Ceremony
as Old Chief
1971
Silence
as Prison guard
1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
Onna no Iji
as Nakano
1970
Evil Spirits of Japan
as Pachinko owner
1970
Attack at Daylight
as Saeki
1970
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
Strange Affinity
1969
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
Heat Wave Island
1968
Kuroneko
as Farmer
1968
Strong Women, Weak Men
as Zenzo
1968
Three Resurrected Drunkards
as Old man
1968
East China Sea
1968
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
Wind of Youth
1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
as Higa
1967
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Libido
1966
Violence at Noon
as School director
1966
Drunken Harbor
as Doctor
1966
Dynamite Doctor
as Chairman
1966
Captive's Island
1966
The Little Runaway
1966
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Lost Sex
as Gonpachi
1966
The Pornographers
as Father
1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
Black Curtain
1966
Ohanahan
as 溝呂木老人
1965
An Innocent Witch
1965
Conquest
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
1965
Seisaku's Wife
as Retired Man
1965
The Start of Life
1965
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
Escape and the Law
1964
Onibaba
as Ushi
1964
The Desperate
as Chief Osawa
1964
A Story from Echigo
1964
Intentions of Murder
as Beret Musician
1964
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Onibaba : Film Location
1963
The Insect Woman
as Foreman
1963
18 Roughs
as Murata
1963
Black Report
as Shinsaku Tsuda
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as Monk
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Mother
as Tajima
1963
Kanto Wanderer
as Boss Izu
1963
The School Cap
1963
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
Violent Street
1963
Raised on an Island
1962
I am the Judge
1962
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
Foundry Town
as Matsunaga
1962
The King
1962
Human
as Kamegoro
1962
Hageshī kawa
1962
Song of a Traveller
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Rokusuke
1962
Farm Girls
as Kuranosuke
1962
Season of Farewell
1962
Stolen Pleasure
as Goro
1962
Fresh Leaves
as Zenkichi Segawa
1962
Tales of President Mito
as President Toyotomi
1962
The Young and Bad
1962
Nippon no obaachan
1961
Love's Family Tree
1961
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as Kotani
1961
Blind Devotion
as Hikozo
1961
Pigs and Battleships
as Chen
1961
Shōjo
1961
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
The Famous Wanderer
1960
The Naked Island
as Senta
1960
Sixteen years old
1960
One Passed Through Hell
1960
Secret
1960
Irohanihoheto
1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
Internees of Kampili
1960
Wait for Tomorrow
as Inosuke Uematsu
1960
Knock Down
1960
The Cards Will Tell
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
Yakuza sensei
1960
Storming Squadron
1960
The Last Trump Card
as Seitaro Koshimura
1960
The Legendary Hell
as Daihachi
1959
Good Morning
as Pushy Man
1959
My Second Brother
as Hemmi Gengoro
1959
Whistling in the Morning
1959
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
as Kumakichi Takeda
1959
Four Hours of Terror
as Teppei Sasada
1959
The Human Wall
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
as Detective Machida
1959
Talented Woman
1959
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1958
Underwater Murder
1958
Night Drum
1958
Endless Desire
as Ramen shop owner
1958
Hobo Village
1958
Wind, Woman and Road
as Kenta
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
as Detective Shimamoto
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Masumura
1958
Hanayome no teikō
as Yoshimaro Akiyama
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Kurazo
1957
Who's the Real Killer
as Frank
1957
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
as Senkichi Hanamura
1957
Harbor Rats
1957
The Champion
as Pote-chan
1957
Temptation
as Tobe
1957
On This Earth
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
1957
Muhō Ichidai
1956
Dotanba
1956
快傑耶茶坊
1956
Our Town
as Shime
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Darkness at Noon
as Uhei Matsumura
1956
Love is Lost
as Gensaku
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Doctor Otsuki
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Shokichi
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
Actress
1955
The Three Faces
as Gen
1955
Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman Kuramochi
1955
The Wolves
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Burden of Love
as Mr. Yamaguchi
1955
If Indeed One Loves
as Bartender (segment 1)
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
Sisters
1954
Turbid Youth
1954
Koina no Ginpei
1954
Ditch
1954
Cape Ashizuri
1954
The End of a Day
1954
The Street Without Sun
as Gen'ichi Inoue
1954
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Snowy Night Duel
1953
Reminiscence
1953
Murahachibu
1953
Gate of Hell
as Kakisuke
1953
Before the Dawn
as Risaburo
1953
Tower of Lilies
1953
Miniature
as Yamada
1953
Desire
1952
Today is Payday
as President of Akabane Construction
1952
Children of Hiroshima
as Owner of a ship
1952
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
Violence
1952
Taki no Shiraito
as Fukuichi
1952
Avalanche
as Miyabayashi
1952
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1951
Izayoi kaidō
1951
限りなき情熱
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
Clothes of Deception
as Kasama
1951
The White Orchid
1951
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
The Tale of Genji
as Priest
1951
The Man from the Moon
1951
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
Freedom School
1951
Aizenbashi
1950
Spring Snow
as Yasuji
1950
Scandal
as Aoye's friend
1950
Town of Violence
as Ango Shindo
1950
Yume o meshimase
as Ton Chiki
1950
The End of the War
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
as Waretsuku
1948
The President and the Shopgirl
1948
Drunken Angel
as Shop Proprietor
1948
Great X
as Matsushita
1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948
Temptation
1948
The Follower
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as Photographer
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
as Yoshida
1941
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Rokuzô Ôkuma
Toumei na kisetsu