Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
Tokyo Pop
as Grandfather
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Faraway Tomorrow
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
The Strangling
Golden Partners
as Bend master
Vengeance Is Mine
as Tanejiro Shibata
The Fall of Teenager
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
Empire of Passion
as Toichiro
Love and Faith
Junko's Bliss
as Taizô Sakata
Ghost Train
Ballad of Orin
as 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
as Sôiku
Two Harmonicas
In the Realm of the Senses
as Old Beggar
Hobo General
A Cheerful Yakuza
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
as Kinetarô Kitamura
Scoundrel Boss
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
as The Master
Pimp Heaven
as Preacher
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
as Harukichi
青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
Evening Primrose
as Genji's father
The Last Swordsman
The Castle of Sand
as Publican at Ebisu
The Homeless
Street of Joy
as Kofukuya's Owner
My Way
as Yoshizo Kawamura
The Key
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
as Tonomura
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
as Sex Show Manager
The Heart
as S's Father
Stray Dog
Love Lost in Tears
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
as Shimamura
Hell Riders in Kyoto
A Woman’s Road
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
as Shimamura
Time Within Memory
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
as Ippei
Sex and Fury
as Tokuzô Kasai
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Deeper Than Blue
as Shunkai
Hymn
as Harumatsu
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
as Nomura
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
Dear Summer Sister
as Takuzo Sakurada
Turtle Geisha
as Ishibashi
The Lucky Status Symbol
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Kanawa
as Physiognomist
The Rendezvous
as Murai
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
as Tokuichi Ōnuma
Silence
as Prison guard
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The Ceremony
as Old Chief
Onna no Iji
as Nakano
King of Pornography
King of the Widow-Killers
Evil Spirits of Japan
as Pachinko owner
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Hooligans on Buggies
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
The Revelation of a Geisha
Yukyo-retsuden
Strange Affinity
Attack at Daylight
as Saeki
Gokudô Petenshi
Heat Wave Island
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
Profound Desires of the Gods
as Higa
East China Sea
Strong Women, Weak Men
as Zenzo
Three Resurrected Drunkards
as Old man
Wind of Youth
Kuroneko
as Farmer
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Libido
Drunken Harbor
as Doctor
The Little Runaway
Lost Sex
as Gonpachi
Violence at Noon
as School director
Captive's Island
Dynamite Doctor
as Chairman
The Pornographers
as Father
Black Curtain
Kokoro no sanmyaku
The Betrayers Out!
Conquest
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Escape and the Law
An Innocent Witch
Seisaku's Wife
as Retired Man
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
The Start of Life
Onibaba
as Ushi
Intentions of Murder
as Beret Musician
A Story from Echigo
The Irresponsible Fool
The Desperate
as Chief Osawa
Samurai from Nowhere
Onibaba : Film Location
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
The School Cap
Kanto Wanderer
as Boss Izu
The Insect Woman
as Foreman
Mother
as Tajima
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as Monk
18 Roughs
as Murata
Raised on an Island
どん底だって平ちゃらさ
Violent Street
Black Report
as Shinsaku Tsuda
Beyond the Green Hills
The King
Human
as Kamegoro
Farm Girls
as Kuranosuke
Hageshī kawa
Fresh Leaves
as Zenkichi Segawa
The Young and Bad
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Rokusuke
Song of a Traveller
Foundry Town
as Matsunaga
Tales of President Mito
as President Toyotomi
Stolen Pleasure
as Goro
I am the Judge
Season of Farewell
大吉ぼんのう鏡
Nippon no obaachan
Love's Family Tree
Police Precinct Part 17
The Famous Wanderer
Blind Devotion
as Hikozo
Futaridake no taiyō
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Pigs and Battleships
as Chen
Shōjo
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as Kotani
My Hometown is the Wild West
The Legendary Hell
as Daihachi
The Naked Island
as Senta
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Storming Squadron
Wait for Tomorrow
as Inosuke Uematsu
Sixteen years old
Internees of Kampili
Yakuza sensei
The Last Trump Card
as Seitaro Koshimura
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Irohanihoheto
One Passed Through Hell
Secret
Knock Down
The Cards Will Tell
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
as Kumakichi Takeda
My Second Brother
as Hemmi Gengoro
The Human Wall
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
as Detective Machida
Four Hours of Terror
as Teppei Sasada
Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
Good Morning
as Pushy Man
Tokyo no Kodoku
Talented Woman
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Whistling in the Morning
Lucky Dragon No. 5
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Endless Desire
as Ramen shop owner
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Masumura
Hanayome no teikō
as Yoshimaro Akiyama
Underwater Murder
The Boy Who Came Back
as Detective Shimamoto
Night Drum
Wind, Woman and Road
as Kenta
Hobo Village
On This Earth
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
Temptation
as Tobe
Harbor Rats
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
Muhō Ichidai
Actress
Dotanba
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Doctor Otsuki
The Shadow of Fear
Nikoyon monogatari
Our Town
as Shime
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Shokichi
快傑耶茶坊
Darkness at Noon
as Uhei Matsumura
Love is Lost
as Gensaku
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
The Beauty and the Dragon
Three Faces
If Indeed One Loves
as Bartender (segment 1)
The Wolves
Sisters
Burden of Love
as Mr. Yamaguchi
Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman Kuramochi
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Wakai hito-tachi
Turbid Youth
The Valley Between Love and Death
Ditch
The Street Without Sun
as Gen'ichi Inoue
Cape Ashizuri
The End of a Day
Snowy Night Duel
Koina no Ginpei
Gate of Hell
as Kakisuke
Before Dawn
as Risaburo
Desire
Miniature
as Yamada
Murahachibu
Reminiscence
Tower of Lilies
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Today is Payday
as President of Akabane Construction
Violence
Children of Hiroshima
as Owner of a ship
Taki no Shiraito
as Fukuichi
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
Sisters of Nishijin
Avalanche
as Miyabayashi
Izayoi kaidō
The Man from the Moon
Aizenbashi
Story of a Beloved Wife
Saijoke no kyoen
The Tale of Genji
as Priest
限りなき情熱
Who Will Judge Me?
Freedom School
The White Orchid
Clothes of Deception
as Kasama
The End of the War
Scandal
as Aoye's friend
Yume o meshimase
as Ton Chiki
Spring Snow
as Yasuji
Town of Violence
as Ango Shindo
Ishimatsu of the Forest
as Waretsuku
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
The Follower
Great X
as Matsushita
Drunken Angel
as Shop Proprietor
Temptation
The President and the Shopgirl
The Ball at the Anjo House
as Yoshida
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as Photographer
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Rokuzô Ôkuma
