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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.
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30 September 1959
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
29 October 1970
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
15 September 1976
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
22 March 1985
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant.
17 February 1973
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly).
03 January 1962
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law.
30 November 1941
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army.
27 November 1956
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
17 April 1952
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
15 December 1963
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions.
11 February 1984
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children.
02 February 1966
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
29 October 1969
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead.
21 December 1963
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
09 January 1953
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island.
01 April 1988
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
02 November 1974
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
01 January 1981
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
04 April 1962
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
29 September 1960
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili.
08 April 1962
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
19 September 1981
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat.
30 October 1965
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill.
09 May 1964
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest.
25 February 1983
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto.
29 March 1972
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
18 March 1955
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other.
09 June 1972
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune.
25 August 1972
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
26 September 1948
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
04 July 1970
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now has to confront the brother and some dirty local yakuza.
06 October 1962
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr.
16 November 1955
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
14 April 1973
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
25 June 1965
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
09 April 1974
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe and she learns new tricks of the trade.
16 July 1977
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her.
07 September 1951
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
21 November 1964
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find.
12 May 1959
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set.
29 September 1973
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime.
28 April 1973
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him.
29 April 1983
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die.
03 February 1954
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada.
15 January 1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service.
14 August 1970
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort.
11 August 1973
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
11 June 1951
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course.
26 April 1972
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyohime's strict morals lead to significant crisis in their marriage.
15 June 1962
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
01 August 1987
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
20 February 1982
After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas.
