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Taiji Tonoyama
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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.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
In the Realm of the Senses
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Onibaba
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Ballad of Narayama
As Teruyan
Vengeance Is Mine
As Tanejiro Shibata
Good Morning
As Pushy Man
Intentions of Murder
As Beret Musician
Pigs and Battleships
As Chen
Legend of the Eight Samurai
As Hikojii
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Fractured Fables
From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.
8 films
What We Make Monsters Of
A creature feature is rarely about the creature. From Na Hong-jin's Hope to a Scottish island burning its own kindness, this is a chain about communities that d...
8 films
When Money Buys Trouble
From Brooklyn to the world, a chain of films where transactions turn tender, then treacherous.
8 films
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983 · Hikojii
The Ballad of Narayama
1983 · Teruyan
Vengeance Is Mine
1979 · Tanejiro Shibata
In the Realm of the Senses
1976 · Old Beggar
Onibaba
1964 · Ushi
Intentions of Murder
1964 · Beret Musician
The Insect Woman
1963 · Foreman
Pigs and Battleships
1961 · Chen
Good Morning
1959 · Pushy Man