# Taiji Tonoyama

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Japanese actor (1915–1989)

Taiji Tonoyama 殿山 泰司 Born (1915-10-17)October 17, 1915 Kobe, Hyogo, Japan Died April 30, 1989(1989-04-30) (aged 73) Occupation Actor Years active 1939–1989

**Taiji Tonoyama** (殿山 泰司, *Tonoyama Taiji*; October 17, 1915 – April 30, 1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989.[1] He was a close friend of [Kaneto Shindo](/source/Kaneto_Shindo) and one of his regular cast members.[2] He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company [Kindai Eiga Kyokai](/source/Kindai_Eiga_Kyokai) with Shindo and [Kōzaburō Yoshimura](/source/K%C5%8Dzabur%C5%8D_Yoshimura).

He served in the [Japanese military](/source/Imperial_Japanese_Army) in China in the [Second Sino-Japanese War](/source/Second_Sino-Japanese_War) and considered himself to have narrowly escaped from death.[2] He was married but also had a mistress and maintained relationships with both women until the end of his life.[2] He was a keen reader of detective stories and a fan of jazz music.[2] He wrote a series of semi-autobiographical essays under the title *Sanmon Yakusha* (三文役者), meaning "third rate actor". [Kaneto Shindo](/source/Kaneto_Shindo) wrote a biography of Tonoyama called *Sanmon yakusha no shi*,[n 1] meaning "The death of a third-rate actor", which he also filmed as *[By Player](/source/By_Player)*.[2][3]

## Filmography (selected)

Date Title Role 1947 Record of a Tenement Gentleman 1948 President and female clerk Butler Kurokawa 1951 The Tale of Genji 1952 Dedication of the Great Buddha 1952 Avalanche 1952 Children of Hiroshima 1953 Epitome 1953 Life of a Woman 1953 Jazz musume tanjō 1955 Wolf 1956 Shirogane Shinjū 1956 An Actress 1956 Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers Dr. Otsuki 1957 Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate 1958 Night Drum 1959 My Second Brother 1959 Good Morning Door-to-door salesman 1959 Lucky Dragon No. 5 Mayor of Yaizu 1960 The Naked Island Husband 1962 Foundry Town Ningen Kamegoro 1963 Kanto Wanderer The Insect Woman 1964 Onibaba Ushi 1965 An Innocent Witch Yamasan Akuto 1965 Kuroneko Farmer Profound Desires of the Gods[4] 1971 A Soul to Devils 1972 The Rendezvous Dear Summer Sister Takuzo Sakurada 1973 The Heart 1974 The Homeless 1976 In the Realm of the Senses Old beggar 1976 Torakku Yarō: Tenka Gomen 1977 The Life of Chikuzan 1977 Ballad of Orin Charcoal Man 1978 Ogin-sama Ankokuji Ekei 1978 Empire of Passion 1979 Vengeance Is Mine Tanejiro Shibata 1979 Tantei Monogatari (episode 6) Boss of Kyoei Shoji 1981 Eijanaika Edo Porn Woodcarver Muddy River 1983 The Ballad of Narayama 1985 Seburi monogatari 1986 Tree Without Leaves Sakuzo Comic Magazine 1987 Zegen 1989 Black Rain

## Books

Date Romanized title Original title Notes ISBN 1969 Nihon onna chizu: shizen wa nikutai ni donna eikyo o ataeru ka 日本女地図: 自然は、肉体にどんな影響を与えるのか A comparison of women's bodies, particularly their vaginas, in different parts of Japan. ISBN 978-4-04-154201-9 1980 Sanmon yakusha anaki den parts one to three 三文役者あなあきい伝PART1~PART3 ISBN 978-4-480-02937-9

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 三文役者の死

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-kotobank_1-0)** ["Tonoyama Taiji"](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%AE%BF%E5%B1%B1%E6%B3%B0%E5%8F%B8). *[Kotobank](/source/Kotobank)* (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 February 2012.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ikiteirukagiri_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ikiteirukagiri_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ikiteirukagiri_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-ikiteirukagiri_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-ikiteirukagiri_2-4) [Shindo, Kaneto](/source/Kaneto_Shindo) (2008). *Ikite iru kagiri Watashi no Rirekisho* [*While I live: my resume*] (in Japanese). Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-4-532-16661-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-4-532-16661-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Shindo, Kaneto](/source/Kaneto_Shindo) (2000). *Sanmon yakusha no shi: Seiden Tonoyama Taiji* [*The death of a third-rate actor: a true biography of Taiji Tonoyama*]. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-4-00-602017-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-4-00-602017-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["神々の深き欲望"](https://eiga.com/movie/35664/). *eiga.com*. Retrieved March 12, 2021.

## External links

- [Taiji Tonoyama](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867401/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Tonoyama Taiji](http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0290740.htm) at the [Japanese Movie Database](/source/Japanese_Movie_Database) (in Japanese)

- [Goo Movies](https://web.archive.org/web/20130305042058/http://movie.goo.ne.jp/cast/c55997/index.html)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor Masayuki Mori (1947) Chishū Ryū (1948) Takashi Shimura (1949) Shin Saburi (1950) Chishū Ryū (1951) Shin Saburi (1952) Ken Uehara (1953) So Yamamura (1954) Hisaya Morishige (1955) Keiji Sada (1956) Toshiro Mifune (1957) Keiju Kobayashi (1958) Eiji Funakoshi (1959) Keiju Kobayashi (1960) Tatsuya Nakadai (1961) Taiji Tonoyama (1962) Keiju Kobayashi (1963) Kō Nishimura (1964) Rentarō Mikuni (1965) Shoichi Ozawa (1966) Kunie Tanaka (1967) Minori Terada (1968) Kiyoshi Atsumi (1969) Hisashi Igawa (1970) Shintaro Katsu (1971) Takeo Chii (1972) Tetsurō Tamba (1973) Rentarō Mikuni (1974) Shin Saburi (1975) Tetsuya Watari (1976) Ken Takakura (1977) Ken Ogata (1978) Tomisaburo Wakayama (1979) Tatsuya Nakadai (1980) Takahiro Tamura (1981) Kō Nishimura (1982) Ken Ogata (1983) Tsutomu Yamazaki (1984) Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) Eiji Okuda (1986) Masahiko Tsugawa (1987) Hajime Hana (1988) Rentarō Mikuni (1989) Masato Furuoya (1990) Masatoshi Nagase (1991) Kyōzō Nagatsuka (1992) Gorō Kishitani (1993) Eiji Okuda (1994) Koji Yakusho (1995) Koji Yakusho (1996) Yoshio Harada (1997) Masahiro Motoki (1998) Keiju Kobayashi (1999) Tadanobu Asano (2000) Tatsuya Mihashi (2001) Hiroyuki Sanada (2002) Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) Takeshi Kitano (2004) Tadanobu Asano (2005) Kōichi Satō (2006) Taichi Kokubun (2007) Hiroshi Abe (2008) Kenichi Matsuyama (2009) Shinichi Tsutsumi (2010) Mirai Moriyama (2011) Isao Natsuyagi (2012) Ryuhei Matsuda (2013) Go Ayano (2014) Shinya Tsukamoto (2015) Masahiro Motoki (2016) Masaki Suda (2017) Tasuku Emoto (2018) Ryo Narita (2019) Mirai Moriyama (2020) Takeru Satoh (2021) Kenji Sawada (2022) Ryohei Suzuki (2023)

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