Taiji Tonoyama
- Acting
- October 17, 1915 · Kobe, Japon
- April 30, 1989
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
Filmography
- Thousand Cranes
- Black Rain · Old Priest
- War and Flowers
- Tomorrow · Storekeeper
- Tokyo Pop · Grandfather
- Sakura-tai Chiru
- Hawaiian Dream · Shokichi Shimamura
- Hachiko · Hashimoto
- Zegen · Shimada
- River of Fireflies
- Tree Without Leaves
- Jazz Daimyo · Gensai
- The Seburi Story · Kamezo
- Nuclear Gypsies
- Song of the Spring Pony
- Location · Inumaru
- The Horizon · Tanimoto
- The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
- Legend of the Eight Samurai · Hikojii
- Dark Room · Doctor(医師)
- The Ballad of Narayama · Teruyan
- Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
- The Bored Samurai · Father of Ogin
- Oiran · Hachibei
- Sacred Koya
- Tora-san, the Expert
- Irezumi · Horiatsu
- A Ghost Love Story of Japan
- On the Road
- A Pool Without Water · Pharmacist
- Fifth Movement
- Edo Porn · Tattooist
- Day Dream · Guard
- Fruits of Passion · Customer
- Magistrate of the Floating World
- Kinagashi Bugyō
- Yokohama BJ Blues · Isao Hori
- Pro Hunter
- Muddy River · Man on Festival Boat
- Eijanaika · Jyosyuya
- Tetsugen
- Daughter of Time · Fireworks Hand 2
- Until Evening · Restaurant's Owner
- Child of the Sun
- Nurse's Husband
- A-Un
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring
- Faraway Tomorrow
- The Bride of the Ghost Lake · Goichi Nishida (village chief)
- The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
- The Strangling
- Golden Partners · Bend master
- Vengeance Is Mine · Tanejiro Shibata
- Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
- Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
- Empire of Passion · Toichiro
- Love and Faith
- Junko's Bliss · Taizô Sakata
- Ghost Train
- Ballad of Orin · Mountain Man
- Tomorrow Evening
- The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
- The Far Road
- Seasonal Wind
- Eros Eterna
- Case of the Disjointed Murder
- The Gate of Youth Part 2
- Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow · Sôiku
- Two Harmonicas
- In the Realm of the Senses · Old Beggar
- Hobo General
- The Roads Men Travel · Sone
- A Cheerful Yakuza
- Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment · Kinetarô Kitamura
- Scoundrel Boss
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2 · The Master
- Pimp Heaven · Preacher
- Housewife's Experience: Tenement · Harukichi
- 青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
- A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse · Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)