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.
Movies
Onibaba
Ushi
The Naked Island
Senta
Four Hours of Terror
Teppei Sasada
Hachiko
Hashimoto
Drunken Angel
Shop Proprietor
Kuroneko
Farmer
Good Morning
Pushy Man
The Ballad of Narayama
Teruyan
Vengeance Is Mine
Tanejiro Shibata
Violence at Noon
School director
The Insect Woman
Foreman
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Shimamura
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Empire of Passion
Toichiro
Foundry Town
Matsunaga
My Second Brother
Hemmi Gengoro
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Photographer
Evil Spirits of Japan
Pachinko owner
Children of Hiroshima
Owner of a ship
Edo Porn
Tattooist
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Shimamura
Human
Kamegoro
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Old man
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Kurazo
Muddy River
Man on Festival Boat
Attack at Daylight
Saeki
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
Kofukuya's Owner
Ballad of Orin
Mountain Man
Jazz Daimyo
Gensai
The Iron Crown
Physiognomist
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Ippei
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Sex Show Manager
The Key
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
The Master
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Harukichi
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Kinetarô Kitamura
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
My Way
Yoshizo Kawamura
Love's Family Tree
The Ditch
Dark Room
Doctor(医師)
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Senkichi Hanamura
18 Roughs
Murata
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Hikojii
Why Not?
Jyosyuya
Child of the Sun
Captive's Island
Scandal
Aoye's friend
In the Realm of the Senses
Old Beggar
Irezumi
Horiatsu
Zegen
Shimada
Akitsu Hot Springs
Day Dream
Guard
Dear Summer Sister
Takuzo Sakurada
Black Rain
Old Priest
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Gate of Hell
Kakisuke
Hymn
Harumatsu
Silence
Prison guard
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Kumakichi Takeda
Stray Dog
The Little Runaway
The Wolves
Black Report
Shinsaku Tsuda
The Last Swordsman
Underwater Murder
The Far Road
Cape Ashizuri
Tetsugen
Nurse's Husband
Night Drum
Our Town
Shime
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Kuramochi
Before Dawn
Risaburo
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
On the Road
The Heart
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Monk
Endless Desire
Ramen shop owner
Beyond the Green Hills
The Human Wall
An Innocent Witch
Tomorrow Evening
River of Fireflies
Tokyo Pop
Grandfather
Conquest
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
Tree Without Leaves
Story of a Beloved Wife
Harbor Rats
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
A Story from Echigo
Love Lost in Tears
Street of Violence
Ango Shindo
A Woman’s Road
Hobo Village
Libido
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Kotani
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Location
Inumaru
The Ball at the Anjo House
Yoshida
Great X
Matsushita
Evening Primrose
Genji's father
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
The Shadow of Fear
Seisaku's Wife
Retired Man
Season of Farewell
Wind, Woman and Road
Kenta
The Betrayers Out!
The Widow Killer
The Lucky Status Symbol
Mother
Tajima
Blind Devotion
Hikozo
Time Within Memory
Hawaiian Dream
Shokichi Shimamura
The Strangling
Deeper Than Blue
Shunkai
Internees of Kampili
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Rokuzô Ôkuma
The End of a Day
The Champion
Pote-chan
Darkness at Noon
Uhei Matsumura
Hooligans on Buggies
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
The Revelation of a Geisha
Pigs and Battleships
Chen
Clothes of Deception
Kasama
Love is Lost
Gensaku
The Seburi Story
Kamezo
A Pool Without Water
Pharmacist
Turtle Geisha
Ishibashi
The Start of Life
Daughter of Time
Fireworks Hand 2
Faraway Tomorrow
Stolen Pleasure
Goro
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Kanto Wanderer
Boss Izu
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Lost Sex
Gonpachi
Fresh Leaves
Zenkichi Segawa
Yokohama BJ Blues
Isao Hori
Wait for Tomorrow
Inosuke Uematsu
Until Evening
Restaurant's Owner
Intentions of Murder
Beret Musician
Tales of President Mito
President Toyotomi
Strange Affinity
The Homeless
The Young and Bad
The School Cap
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Doctor Otsuki
Nippon no obaachan
Tower of Lilies
Miniature
Yamada
The Fall of Teenager
The Boy Who Came Back
детектив Мацумото
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Nomura
Shiawase wa doko ni
Shokichi
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Burden of Love
Mr. Yamaguchi
The Irresponsible Fool
Love and Faith
Nikoyon monogatari
Samurai from Nowhere
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
The White Orchid
Who Will Judge Me?
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Sakura-tai Chiru
The Street Without Sun
Gen'ichi Inoue
Tomorrow
Storekeeper
Ai Sureba Koso
Bartender (segment 1)
Song of the Spring Pony
Temptation
Tobe
On This Earth
Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
The Pornographers
Father
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Masumura
Hobo General
Temptation
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Yokubo
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Knock Down
Onna no Iji
Nakano
The Beauty and the Dragon
Kokoro no sanmyaku
The Horizon
Tanimoto
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Actress
Dorodarake no seishun
Three Faces
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
King of Pornography
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Dotanba
Today is Payday
President of Akabane Construction
大吉ぼんのう鏡
Drunken Harbor
Doctor
Dynamite Doctor
Chairman
Oiran
Hachibei
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Tonomura
The King
The Castle of Sand
Publican at Ebisu
Who's The Real Killer
Frank
Yukyo-retsuden
Sisters of Nishijin
East China Sea
The Desperate
Sex and Fury
Tokuzô Kasai
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
Sôiku
Junko's Bliss
Taizô Sakata
Thousand Cranes
Izayoi kaidō
Secret
Eros Eterna
Song of a Traveller
The Bored Samurai
Father of Ogin
The Rendezvous
Murai
祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
Shachō to onna tenin
Fifth Movement
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Waretsuku
Reminiscence
俺が裁くんだ
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Operation Negligee
Zenzo
Sixteen years old
Koina no Ginpei
Fruits of Passion
Customer
Seasonal Wind
Golden Partners
Bend master
快傑耶茶坊
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Whistling in the morning
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
The Ceremony
One Passed Through Hell
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
War and Flowers
Murahachibu
Spring Snow
Hageshī kawa
幽霊列車
限りなき情熱
Irohanihoheto
Nuclear Gypsies
Shows
Against The Grain
Sone
Ai yori aoku
俊界和尚
Ohanahan
溝呂木老人
Pro Hunter
A-Un
Kinagashi Bugyō