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

★6.6

In the Realm of the Senses

1976

★7.7

Onibaba

1964

★7.7

Good Morning

1959

★7.6

Drunken Angel

1948

★8.1

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

★7.4

Kuroneko

1968

★7.5

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

★7.8

Hachiko

1987

★7.6

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

★8.0

The Naked Island

1960

★6.8

Empire of Passion

1978

★7.6

Black Rain

1989

★6.2

Sex and Fury

1973

★6.9

Scandal

1950

★7.1

Gate of Hell

1953

★5.3

Fruits of Passion

1981

★7.2

The Insect Woman

1963

★7.4

Profound Desires of the Gods

1968

★7.1

Pigs and Battleships

1961

★7.2

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947

★7.3

The Pornographers

1966

★7.4

The Castle of Sand

1974

★7.0

Intentions of Murder

1964