Taiji Tonoyama
Known for: Acting
Born: October 17, 1915
Died: April 30, 1989
Place of birth: Kobe, Japon
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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Filmography
312 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
7.3
Thousand Cranes
1989
7.6
Black Rain
1989
7.0
War and Flowers
1989
8.0
Tomorrow
1988
6.9
Tokyo Pop
1988
6.8
Sakura-tai Chiru
1988
10.0
Hawaiian Dream
1987
7.8
Hachiko
1987
6.4
Zegen
1987
9.0
River of Fireflies
1987
8.0
Tree Without Leaves
1986
6.3
Jazz Daimyo
1986
6.6
The Seburi Story
1985
6.7
Nuclear Gypsies
19858.5
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
8.5
Location
1984
7.0
The Horizon
1984
NR
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
5.8
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
5.6
Dark Room
1983
7.5
The Ballad of Narayama
1983
NR
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
NR
The Bored Samurai
1983
4.9
Oiran
1983
NR
Sacred Koya
1983
8.7
Tora-san, the Expert
1982
5.7
Irezumi
1982
NR
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
198210.0
On the Road
1982
5.4
A Pool Without Water
1982
7.0
Fifth Movement
1981
5.9
Edo Porn
1981
4.8
Day Dream
1981
5.3
Fruits of Passion
1981
6.0
Magistrate of the Floating World
1981
NR
Kinagashi Bugyō
1981
7.8
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
NR
Pro Hunter
1981
7.3
Muddy River
1981
6.2
Eijanaika
1981
NR
Tetsugen
1981
NR
Daughter of Time
1980
7.0
Until Evening
1980
NR
Child of the Sun
19807.0
Nurse's Husband
1980
NR
A-Un
1980
8.2
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
3.7
Faraway Tomorrow
1979
NR
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979NR
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979
4.8
The Strangling
1979
7.0
Golden Partners
1979
7.6
Vengeance Is Mine
1979
2.0
The Fall of Teenager
1979
NR
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
6.9
Empire of Passion
1978
6.4
Love and Faith
1978
3.7
Junko's Bliss
1978
NR
Ghost Train
1978
7.2
Ballad of Orin
1977
NR
Tomorrow Evening
1977
8.2
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977
7.7
The Far Road
1977
NR
Seasonal Wind
1977
4.6
Eros Eterna
1977
7.5
Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977
7.5
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
3.7
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
1977
NR
Two Harmonicas
1976
6.6
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
10.0
Hobo General
1976
8.2
The Roads Men Travel
1976
NR
A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
8.0
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975
7.0
Scoundrel Boss
1975
10.0
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975
3.0
Pimp Heaven
1975
10.0
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975
NR
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
5.8
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
7.3
Evening Primrose
1974
6.0
The Last Swordsman
1974
7.4
The Castle of Sand
1974
7.8
The Homeless
1974
7.0
Street of Joy
1974
6.0
My Way
1974
4.3
The Key
1974
6.0
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
1974
7.5
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974
8.2
The Heart
1973
7.9
Stray Dog
1973
7.0
Love Lost in Tears
1973
6.0
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973
9.0
Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
NR
A Woman’s Road
1973
4.0
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973
4.7
Time Within Memory
1973
8.0
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973
6.2
Sex and Fury
1973
6.5
Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973
8.0
Deeper Than Blue
1973
6.7
Hymn
1972
5.9
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972
10.0
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972
NR
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
5.1
Dear Summer Sister
1972
5.1
Turtle Geisha
1972
NR
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
5.0
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
6.0
Kanawa
1972
NR
Ai yori aoku
1972
6.6
The Rendezvous
1972
NR
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972
7.2
Silence
1971
4.2
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
6.3
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
6.7
The Ceremony
1971
7.0
Onna no Iji
1971
5.9
King of Pornography
1971
NR
King of the Widow-Killers
1971
6.8
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970
6.9
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970
9.0
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
5.0
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
4.7
The Revelation of a Geisha
1970
7.5
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
8.0
Strange Affinity
1970
5.0
Attack at Daylight
1970
10.0
Gokudô Petenshi
1969
6.7
Heat Wave Island
1969
10.0
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969
NR
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
7.4
Profound Desires of the Gods
1968
10.0
East China Sea
1968
8.0
Strong Women, Weak Men
1968
5.7
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
7.0
Wind of Youth
1968
7.4
Kuroneko
1968
8.0
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968
5.7
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
10.0
Libido
1967
NR
Drunken Harbor
1966
3.0
The Little Runaway
1966
9.0
Lost Sex
1966
6.2
Violence at Noon
1966
6.7
Captive's Island
1966
NR
Dynamite Doctor
1966
NR
Ohanahan
1966
7.2
The Pornographers
1966
NR
Black Curtain
1966
9.0
Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966
NR
The Betrayers Out!
1966
6.0
Conquest
1965
NR
Escape and the Law
1965
7.2
An Innocent Witch
1965
7.3
Seisaku's Wife
1965
6.3
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965
NR
The Start of Life
1965
7.7
Onibaba
1964
7.0
Intentions of Murder
1964
7.2
A Story from Echigo
1964
7.0
The Irresponsible Fool
1964
7.0
The Desperate
1964
7.2
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
NR
Onibaba : Film Location
1964
NR
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
NR
The School Cap
1963
6.6
Kanto Wanderer
1963
7.2
The Insect Woman
1963
6.8
Mother
1963
7.8
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
6.7
18 Roughs
1963
NR
Raised on an Island
1963
NR
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
NR
Violent Street
1963
6.6
Black Report
1963
7.0
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
8.0
The King
1962
6.9
Human
1962
10.0
Farm Girls
1962
NR
Hageshī kawa
1962
7.0
Fresh Leaves
1962
NR
The Young and Bad
1962
6.5
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
NR
Song of a Traveller
1962
7.8
Foundry Town
1962
NR
Tales of President Mito
1962
7.2
Stolen Pleasure
1962
NR
I am the Judge
1962
NR
Season of Farewell
1962
NR
大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
7.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962
NR
Love's Family Tree
1961
8.0
Police Precinct Part 17
1961
NR
The Famous Wanderer
1961
9.0
Blind Devotion
1961
NR
Futaridake no taiyō
1961
NR
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
7.1
Pigs and Battleships
1961
NR
Shōjo
1961
10.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
NR
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
NR
The Legendary Hell
1960
8.0
The Naked Island
1960
NR
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
NR
Storming Squadron
1960
NR
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
NR
Sixteen years old
1960
NR
Internees of Kampili
1960
7.0
Yakuza sensei
1960
5.0
The Last Trump Card
1960
NR
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
9.0
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
NR
Irohanihoheto
1960
NR
One Passed Through Hell
1960
NR
Secret
1960
NR
Knock Down
1960
NR
The Cards Will Tell
1960
7.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959
6.6
My Second Brother
1959
6.3
The Human Wall
1959
10.0
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959
6.3
Four Hours of Terror
1959
7.0
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959
NR
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
7.7
Good Morning
1959
NR
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
NR
Talented Woman
1959
5.9
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
NR
Whistling in the Morning
1959
7.5
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959
8.1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
6.8
Endless Desire
1958
6.0
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
NR
Hanayome no teikō
1958NR
Underwater Murder
1958
7.6
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
5.9
Night Drum
1958
7.8
Wind, Woman and Road
1958NR
Hobo Village
1958
7.0
On This Earth
1957
8.0
Temptation
1957
9.0
Harbor Rats
1957
7.0
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
10.0
Who's the Real Killer
1957
6.4
The Champion
1957
NR
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
NR
Muhō Ichidai
1957
8.0
Actress
1956
6.0
Dotanba
1956
7.0
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956
NR
The Shadow of Fear
1956
9.0
Nikoyon monogatari
1956
6.9
Our Town
1956
9.0
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956NR
快傑耶茶坊
1956
6.9
Darkness at Noon
1956
8.0
Love is Lost
1956
7.5
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
10.0
The Beauty and the Dragon
1955
10.0
Three Faces
1955
10.0
If Indeed One Loves
1955
6.9
The Wolves
1955
7.0
Sisters
1955
7.1
Burden of Love
1955
7.0
Policeman's Diary
1955
9.0
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
8.0
Wakai hito-tachi
1954
9.0
Turbid Youth
1954
8.0
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
7.5
Ditch
1954
7.0
The Street Without Sun
1954
9.0
Cape Ashizuri
1954
7.5
The End of a Day
1954
NR
Snowy Night Duel
1954
NR
Koina no Ginpei
1954
7.1
Gate of Hell
1953
10.0
Before Dawn
1953
9.0
Desire
1953
7.8
Miniature
1953
NR
Murahachibu
1953
7.0
Reminiscence
1953
6.8
Tower of Lilies
1953
10.0
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
9.0
Today is Payday
1952
8.0
Violence
1952
7.1
Children of Hiroshima
1952
NR
Taki no Shiraito
1952
NR
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1952
7.5
Sisters of Nishijin
1952NR
Avalanche
1952
NR
Izayoi kaidō
1951
NR
The Man from the Moon
1951NR
Aizenbashi
1951
7.0
Story of a Beloved Wife
1951
NR
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
6.0
The Tale of Genji
1951
NR
限りなき情熱
1951
8.0
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
NR
Freedom School
1951
NR
The White Orchid
1951
7.0
Clothes of Deception
1951
NR
The End of the War
1950
6.9
Scandal
1950NR
Yume o meshimase
1950
NR
Spring Snow
1950
6.5
Town of Violence
1950
7.0
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
9.0
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948NR
The Follower
1948
NR
Great X
1948
7.6
Drunken Angel
1948
8.0
Temptation
194810.0
The President and the Shopgirl
1948
7.0
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
7.2
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947
7.0
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941NR
Toumei na kisetsu
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