Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
Born: 1915-10-17 in Kobe, Japon
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
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
Onibaba
Ushi
Good Morning
Pushy Man
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Kuroneko
Farmer
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Hachiko
Hashimoto
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
The Naked Island
Senta
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
Black Rain
Old Priest
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Scandal
Aoye's friend
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
Fruits of Passion
Customer
The Insect Woman
Foreman
Profound Desires of the Gods
Higa
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
The Pornographers
Father
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
The Ceremony
Old Chief
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
Edo Porn
Tattooist
Violence at Noon
School director
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
Silence
Prison guard
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
Akitsu Hot Springs
Rokusuke
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
Eijanaika
Jyosyuya
