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