Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
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.
Born: October 17, 1915
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
The Roads Men Travel
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Sisters of Nishijin
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Filmography
as Old Priest
as Storekeeper
as Grandfather
as Shokichi Shimamura
as Hashimoto
as Shimada
as Gensai
as Kamezo
as Inumaru
as Tanimoto
as Hikojii
as Doctor(医師)
as Teruyan
as Father of Ogin
as Hachibei
as Horiatsu
as Pharmacist
as Tattooist
as Guard
as Customer
as Isao Hori
as Man on Festival Boat
as Jyosyuya
as Fireworks Hand 2
as Restaurant's Owner
as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
as Bend master
as Tanejiro Shibata
as Toichiro
as Taizô Sakata
as Mountain Man
as Old Beggar
as Sone
as Kinetarô Kitamura
as The Master
as Preacher
as Harukichi
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
as Genji's father
as Publican at Ebisu
as Kofukuya's Owner
as Yoshizo Kawamura
as Tonomura
as Sex Show Manager
as S's Father
as Shimamura
as Shimamura
as Tokuzô Kasai
as Shunkai
as Harumatsu
as Nomura
as Takuzo Sakurada
as Ishibashi
as Physiognomist
as 俊界和尚
as Murai
as Prison guard
as Old Chief
as Nakano
as Pachinko owner
as Saeki
as Higa
as Zenzo
as Old man
as Farmer
as Doctor
as Gonpachi
as School director
as Chairman
as 溝呂木老人
as Father
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
as Retired Man
as Ushi
as Beret Musician
as Chief Osawa
as Boss Izu
as Foreman
as Tajima
as Monk
as Murata
as Shinsaku Tsuda
as Kamegoro
as Zenkichi Segawa
as Rokusuke
as Matsunaga
as President Toyotomi
as Goro
as Hikozo
as Chen
as Kotani
as Senta
as Inosuke Uematsu
as Kumakichi Takeda
as Hemmi Gengoro
as Detective Machida
as Teppei Sasada
as Pushy Man
as Ramen shop owner
as Masumura
as Kenta
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
as Tobe
as Frank
as Pote-chan
as Senkichi Hanamura
as Doctor Otsuki
as Shime
as Shokichi
as Uhei Matsumura
as Gensaku
as Bartender (segment 1)
as Mr. Yamaguchi
as Patrolman Kuramochi
as Gen'ichi Inoue
as Kakisuke
as Risaburo
as Yamada
as President of Akabane Construction
as Owner of a ship
as Priest
as Kasama
as Aoye's friend
as Ango Shindo
as Yasuji
as Waretsuku
as Matsushita
as Shop Proprietor
as Yoshida
as Photographer
as Rokuzô Ôkuma