Taiji Tonoyama

Personal Info

Birthday

October 17, 1915

Day of Death

1989-04-30

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

殿山泰司

Танояма Тайи

Тайдзи Тонояма

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.

Known For

Ohanahan

In the Realm of the Senses

Drunken Angel

Ai yori aoku

Empire of Passion

The Ballad of Narayama

Good Morning

Onibaba

Filmography

1989
Black Rain
as Old Priest
1988
Tomorrow
as Storekeeper
Tokyo Pop
as Grandfather
1987
Hawaiian Dream
as Shokichi Shimamura
Hachiko
as Hashimoto
Zegen
as Shimada
1986
Jazz Daimyo
as Gensai
1985
The Seburi Story
as Kamezo
1984
Location
as Inumaru
The Horizon
as Tanimoto
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
as Hikojii
Dark Room
as Doctor(医師)
The Ballad of Narayama
as Teruyan
The Bored Samurai
as Father of Ogin
Oiran
as Hachibei
1982
Irezumi
as Horiatsu
A Pool Without Water
as Pharmacist
1981
Edo Porn
as Tattooist
Day Dream
as Guard
Fruits of Passion
as Customer
Yokohama BJ Blues
as Isao Hori
Muddy River
as Man on Festival Boat
Why Not?
as Jyosyuya
1980
Daughter of Time
as Fireworks Hand 2
Until Evening
as Restaurant's Owner
1979
Golden Partners
as Bend master
Vengeance Is Mine
as Tanejiro Shibata
1978
Empire of Passion
as Toichiro
Junko's Bliss
as Taizô Sakata
1977
Ballad of Orin
as Mountain Man
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
as Sôiku
1976
In the Realm of the Senses
as Old Beggar
1975
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
as Kinetarô Kitamura
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
as The Master
Pimp Heaven
as Preacher
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
as Harukichi
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
1974
Evening Primrose
as Genji's father
The Castle of Sand
as Publican at Ebisu
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
as Kofukuya's Owner
My Way
as Yoshizo Kawamura
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
as Tonomura
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
as Sex Show Manager
1973
The Heart
as S's Father
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
as Shimamura
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
as Shimamura
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
as Ippei
Sex and Fury
as Tokuzô Kasai
Deeper Than Blue
as Shunkai
1972
Hymn
as Harumatsu
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
as Nomura
Dear Summer Sister
as Takuzo Sakurada
Turtle Geisha
as Ishibashi
The Iron Crown
as Physiognomist
The Rendezvous
as Murai
1971
Silence
as Prison guard
The Ceremony
as Old Chief
Onna no Iji
as Nakano
1970
Evil Spirits of Japan
as Pachinko owner
Attack at Daylight
as Saeki
1968
Strong Women, Weak Men
as Zenzo
Three Resurrected Drunkards
as Old man
Kuroneko
as Farmer
1966
Drunken Harbor
as Doctor
Lost Sex
as Gonpachi
Violence at Noon
as School director
Dynamite Doctor
as Chairman
The Pornographers
as Father
1965
Conquest
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Seisaku's Wife
as Retired Man
1964
Onibaba
as Ushi
Intentions of Murder
as Beret Musician
The Desperate
as Chief Osawa
1963
Kanto Wanderer
as Boss Izu
The Insect Woman
as Foreman
Mother
as Tajima
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as Monk
18 Roughs
as Murata
Black Report
as Shinsaku Tsuda
1962
Human
as Kamegoro
Fresh Leaves
as Zenkichi Segawa
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Rokusuke
Foundry Town
as Matsunaga
Tales of President Mito
as President Toyotomi
Stolen Pleasure
as Goro
1961
Blind Devotion
as Hikozo
Pigs and Battleships
as Chen
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as Kotani
1960
The Naked Island
as Senta
Wait for Tomorrow
as Inosuke Uematsu
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
as Kumakichi Takeda
My Second Brother
as Hemmi Gengoro
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
as Detective Machida
Four Hours of Terror
as Teppei Sasada
Good Morning
as Pushy Man
1958
Endless Desire
as Ramen shop owner
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Masumura
Wind, Woman and Road
as Kenta
1957
On This Earth
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Temptation
as Tobe
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Kurazo
Who's the Real Killer
as Frank
The Champion
as Pote-chan
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
as Senkichi Hanamura
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Doctor Otsuki
Our Town
as Shime
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Shokichi
Darkness at Noon
as Uhei Matsumura
Love is Lost
as Gensaku
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
as Bartender (segment 1)
Burden of Love
as Mr. Yamaguchi
Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman Kuramochi
1954
The Street Without Sun
as Gen'ichi Inoue
1953
Gate of Hell
as Kakisuke
Before Dawn
as Risaburo
Miniature
as Yamada
1952
Today is Payday
as President of Akabane Construction
Children of Hiroshima
as Owner of a ship
1951
The Tale of Genji
as Priest
Clothes of Deception
as Kasama
1950
Scandal
as Aoye's friend
Street of Violence
as Ango Shindo
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
as Waretsuku
1948
Great X
as Matsushita
Drunken Angel
as Shop Proprietor
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
as Yoshida
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as Photographer
1941
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Rokuzô Ôkuma