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Taiji Tonoyama
Acting
🎂 October 17, 1915📍 Kobe, Japon🕯️ April 30, 1989 · Age 73
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.
BODY OF WORK
Taiji Tonoyama's Filmography
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Thousand Cranes
1989⭐ 7.3
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Black Rain
1989⭐ 7.6
as Old Priest
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War and Flowers
1989⭐ 7.0
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Tomorrow
1988⭐ 8.0
as Storekeeper
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Tokyo Pop
1988⭐ 6.9
as Grandfather
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Sakura-tai Chiru
1988⭐ 6.8
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Hawaiian Dream
1987⭐ 10.0
as Shokichi Shimamura
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Hachiko
1987⭐ 7.8
as Hashimoto
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Zegen
1987⭐ 6.4
as Shimada
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River of Fireflies
1987⭐ 9.0
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Tree Without Leaves
1986⭐ 8.0
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Jazz Daimyo
1986⭐ 6.3
as Gensai
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The Seburi Story
1985⭐ 6.6
as Kamezo
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Nuclear Gypsies
1985⭐ 6.7
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Song of the Spring Pony
1985⭐ 8.5
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Location
1984⭐ 8.5
as Inumaru
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The Horizon
1984⭐ 7.0
as Tanimoto
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The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1984
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983⭐ 5.8
as Hikojii
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Dark Room
1983⭐ 5.6
as Doctor(医師)
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The Ballad of Narayama
1983⭐ 7.5
as Teruyan
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983
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The Bored Samurai
1983
as Father of Ogin
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Oiran
1983⭐ 4.9
as Hachibei
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Sacred Koya
1983
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Tora-san, the Expert
1982⭐ 8.7
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Irezumi
1982⭐ 5.7
as Horiatsu
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982
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On the Road
1982⭐ 10.0
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A Pool Without Water
1982⭐ 5.4
as Pharmacist
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Fifth Movement
1981⭐ 7.0
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Edo Porn
1981⭐ 5.9
as Tattooist
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Day Dream
1981⭐ 4.8
as Guard
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Fruits of Passion
1981⭐ 5.3
as Customer
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Magistrate of the Floating World
1981⭐ 6.0
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Yokohama BJ Blues
1981⭐ 7.8
as Isao Hori
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Muddy River
1981⭐ 7.3
as Man on Festival Boat
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Eijanaika
1981⭐ 6.2
as Jyosyuya
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Tetsugen
1981
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Daughter of Time
1980
as Fireworks Hand 2
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Until Evening
1980⭐ 7.0
as Restaurant's Owner
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Child of the Sun
1980
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Nurse's Husband
1980⭐ 7.0
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979⭐ 8.2
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Faraway Tomorrow
1979⭐ 3.7
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The Bride of the Ghost Lake
1979
as Goichi Nishida (village chief)
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The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979
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The Strangling
1979⭐ 4.8
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Golden Partners
1979⭐ 7.0
as Bend master
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Vengeance Is Mine
1979⭐ 7.5
as Tanejiro Shibata
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Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story
1979⭐ 2.0
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Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
1978
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Empire of Passion
1978⭐ 6.8
as Toichiro
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Love and Faith
1978⭐ 6.4
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Junko's Bliss
1978⭐ 3.7
as Taizô Sakata
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Ghost Train
1978
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Ballad of Orin
1977⭐ 7.2
as Mountain Man
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Tomorrow Evening
1977
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977⭐ 8.2
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The Far Road
1977⭐ 7.7
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Seasonal Wind
1977
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Eros Eterna
1977⭐ 4.6
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977⭐ 7.5
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977⭐ 7.5
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Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
1977⭐ 3.7
as Sôiku
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Two Harmonicas
1976
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In the Realm of the Senses
1976⭐ 6.6
as Old Beggar
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Hobo General
1976⭐ 10.0
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A Cheerful Yakuza
1976
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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975⭐ 8.0
as Kinetarô Kitamura
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Scoundrel Boss
1975⭐ 7.0
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975⭐ 10.0
as The Master
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Pimp Heaven
1975⭐ 3.5
as Preacher
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975⭐ 10.0
as Harukichi
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青春トルコ日記 処女すべり
1975
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975⭐ 5.8
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)
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Evening Primrose
1974⭐ 7.3
as Genji's father
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The Last Swordsman
1974⭐ 6.0
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The Castle of Sand
1974⭐ 7.3
as Publican at Ebisu
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The Homeless
1974⭐ 7.8
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Street of Joy
1974⭐ 7.0
as Kofukuya's Owner
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My Way
1974⭐ 6.0
as Yoshizo Kawamura
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The Key
1974⭐ 4.3
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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
1974⭐ 6.0
as Tonomura
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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
1974⭐ 7.5
as Sex Show Manager
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The Heart
1973⭐ 8.2
as S's Father
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Stray Dog
1973⭐ 7.9
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Love Lost in Tears
1973⭐ 7.0
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973⭐ 6.0
as Shimamura
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973⭐ 9.0
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A Woman’s Road
1973
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973⭐ 4.0
as Shimamura
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Time Within Memory
1973⭐ 4.7
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
1973⭐ 8.0
as Ippei
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Sex and Fury
1973⭐ 6.2
as Tokuzô Kasai
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
1973⭐ 6.5
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Deeper Than Blue
1973⭐ 8.0
as Shunkai
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Hymn
1972⭐ 6.6
as Harumatsu
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
1972⭐ 5.9
as Nomura
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972⭐ 10.0
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Dear Summer Sister
1972⭐ 5.2
as Takuzo Sakurada
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It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
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Turtle Geisha
1972⭐ 5.1
as Ishibashi
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The Lucky Status Symbol
1972
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972⭐ 5.0
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Kanawa
1972⭐ 6.0
as Physiognomist
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The Rendezvous
1972⭐ 6.6
as Murai
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Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972
as Tokuichi Ōnuma
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Silence
1971⭐ 7.2
as Prison guard
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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971⭐ 4.2
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971⭐ 6.2
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The Ceremony
1971⭐ 6.8
as Old Chief
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Onna no Iji
1971⭐ 7.0
as Nakano
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King of Pornography
1971⭐ 5.9
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King of the Widow-Killers
1971
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Evil Spirits of Japan
1970⭐ 6.8
as Pachinko owner
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970⭐ 6.9
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Hooligans on Buggies
1970⭐ 9.0
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970⭐ 5.0
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The Revelation of a Geisha
1970⭐ 4.7
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Yukyo-retsuden
1970⭐ 7.5
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Strange Affinity
1970⭐ 8.0
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Attack at Daylight
1970⭐ 5.0
as Saeki
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Gokudô Petenshi
1969⭐ 10.0
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Heat Wave Island
1969⭐ 6.7
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Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
1969⭐ 10.0
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
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Profound Desires of the Gods
1968⭐ 7.4
as Higa
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East China Sea
1968⭐ 10.0
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Strong Women, Weak Men
1968⭐ 8.0
as Zenzo
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968⭐ 5.7
as Old man
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Wind of Youth
1968⭐ 7.0
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Kuroneko
1968⭐ 7.4
as Farmer
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968⭐ 8.0
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967⭐ 5.7
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Libido
1967⭐ 10.0
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The Little Runaway
1966⭐ 3.0
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Drunken Harbor
1966
as Doctor
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Lost Sex
1966⭐ 9.0
as Gonpachi
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Violence at Noon
1966⭐ 6.2
as School director
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Captive's Island
1966⭐ 6.7
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Dynamite Doctor
1966
as Chairman
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The Pornographers
1966⭐ 7.3
as Father
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Black Curtain
1966
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
1966⭐ 9.0
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The Betrayers Out!
1966
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Conquest
1965⭐ 6.0
as Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
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Escape and the Law
1965
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An Innocent Witch
1965⭐ 7.2
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Seisaku's Wife
1965⭐ 7.3
as Retired Man
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1965⭐ 6.3
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The Start of Life
1965
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Onibaba
1964⭐ 7.7
as Ushi
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Intentions of Murder
1964⭐ 7.0
as Beret Musician
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A Story from Echigo
1964⭐ 7.2
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The Irresponsible Fool
1964⭐ 7.0
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The Desperate
1964⭐ 7.0
as Chief Osawa
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Samurai from Nowhere
1964⭐ 7.1
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Onibaba : Film Location
1964
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1963
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The School Cap
1963
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Kanto Wanderer
1963⭐ 6.6
as Boss Izu
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The Insect Woman
1963⭐ 7.2
as Foreman
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Mother
1963⭐ 6.8
as Tajima
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963⭐ 7.8
as Monk
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18 Roughs
1963⭐ 6.7
as Murata
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Raised on an Island
1963
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どん底だって平ちゃらさ
1963
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Violent Street
1963
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Black Report
1963⭐ 6.6
as Shinsaku Tsuda
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Beyond the Green Hills
1963⭐ 7.0
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The King
1962⭐ 8.0
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Human
1962⭐ 6.9
as Kamegoro
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Farm Girls
1962⭐ 10.0
as Kuranosuke
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Fresh Leaves
1962⭐ 7.0
as Zenkichi Segawa
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Hageshī kawa
1962
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The Young and Bad
1962
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1962⭐ 6.5
as Rokusuke
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Song of a Traveller
1962
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Foundry Town
1962⭐ 7.8
as Matsunaga
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Tales of President Mito
1962
as President Toyotomi
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Stolen Pleasure
1962⭐ 7.2
as Goro
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I am the Judge
1962
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Season of Farewell
1962
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Nippon no obaachan
1962⭐ 7.0
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大吉ぼんのう鏡
1962
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Love's Family Tree
1961
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Police Precinct Part 17
1961⭐ 8.0
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The Famous Wanderer
1961
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Blind Devotion
1961⭐ 9.0
as Hikozo
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Futaridake no taiyō
1961
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Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
1961
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Pigs and Battleships
1961⭐ 7.1
as Chen
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Shōjo
1961
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961⭐ 10.0
as Kotani
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My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
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The Legendary Hell
1960
as Daihachi
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The Naked Island
1960⭐ 8.0
as Senta
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
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Storming Squadron
1960
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Wait for Tomorrow
1960
as Inosuke Uematsu
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Sixteen years old
1960
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Internees of Kampili
1960
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Yakuza sensei
1960⭐ 7.0
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The Last Trump Card
1960⭐ 5.0
as Seitaro Koshimura
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960⭐ 9.0
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Irohanihoheto
1960
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One Passed Through Hell
1960
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Secret
1960
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Knock Down
1960
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The Cards Will Tell
1960
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1959⭐ 7.0
as Kumakichi Takeda
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My Second Brother
1959⭐ 6.6
as Hemmi Gengoro
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The Human Wall
1959⭐ 6.2
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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
1959⭐ 10.0
as Detective Machida
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Four Hours of Terror
1959⭐ 6.2
as Teppei Sasada
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Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene
1959⭐ 7.0
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The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
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Good Morning
1959⭐ 7.7
as Pushy Man
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Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
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Talented Woman
1959
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959⭐ 5.9
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Whistling in the Morning
1959
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959⭐ 7.5
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959⭐ 8.2
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Endless Desire
1958⭐ 6.8
as Ramen shop owner
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958⭐ 6.0
as Masumura
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Hanayome no teikō
1958
as Yoshimaro Akiyama
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Underwater Murder
1958
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The Boy Who Came Back
1958⭐ 7.6
as Detective Shimamoto
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Night Drum
1958⭐ 5.9
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Wind, Woman and Road
1958⭐ 7.8
as Kenta
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Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958⭐ 8.0
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Hobo Village
1958
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On This Earth
1957⭐ 7.0
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle
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Temptation
1957⭐ 8.0
as Tobe
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Harbor Rats
1957⭐ 9.0
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957⭐ 7.0
as Kurazo
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Who's the Real Killer
1957⭐ 10.0
as Frank
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The Champion
1957⭐ 6.7
as Pote-chan
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
1957
as Senkichi Hanamura
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Muhō Ichidai
1957
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Actress
1956⭐ 8.0
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Dotanba
1956⭐ 6.0
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956⭐ 7.0
as Doctor Otsuki
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Nikoyon monogatari
1956⭐ 9.0
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The Shadow of Fear
1956
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Our Town
1956⭐ 6.9
as Shime
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Shiawase wa doko ni
1956⭐ 9.0
as Shokichi
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快傑耶茶坊
1956
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Darkness at Noon
1956⭐ 6.9
as Uhei Matsumura
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Love is Lost
1956⭐ 8.0
as Gensaku
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955⭐ 7.5
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The Beauty and the Dragon
1955⭐ 10.0
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The Three Faces
1955⭐ 10.0
as Gen
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If Indeed One Loves
1955⭐ 10.0
as Bartender (segment 1)
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The Wolves
1955⭐ 6.9
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Sisters
1955⭐ 7.0
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Women of Ginza
1955⭐ 9.0
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Burden of Love
1955⭐ 6.8
as Mr. Yamaguchi
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Policeman's Diary
1955⭐ 7.0
as Patrolman Kuramochi
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955⭐ 9.0
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Wakai hito-tachi
1954⭐ 8.0
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The Valley Between Love and Death
1954⭐ 8.0
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Turbid Youth
1954⭐ 9.0
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Ditch
1954⭐ 7.5
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The Street Without Sun
1954⭐ 7.0
as Gen'ichi Inoue
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Cape Ashizuri
1954⭐ 9.0
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The End of a Day
1954⭐ 7.5
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Snowy Night Duel
1954
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Koina no Ginpei
1954
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Gate of Hell
1953⭐ 7.1
as Kakisuke
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Before the Dawn
1953⭐ 10.0
as Risaburo
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Desire
1953⭐ 9.0
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Miniature
1953⭐ 7.8
as Yamada
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Murahachibu
1953
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Reminiscence
1953⭐ 7.0
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Tower of Lilies
1953⭐ 6.8
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952⭐ 10.0
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Today is Payday
1952⭐ 9.0
as President of Akabane Construction
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Violence
1952⭐ 8.0
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Children of Hiroshima
1952⭐ 7.1
as Owner of a ship
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Taki no Shiraito
1952
as Fukuichi
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Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1952
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Sisters of Nishijin
1952⭐ 7.5
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Avalanche
1952
as Miyabayashi
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Izayoi kaidō
1951
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The Man from the Moon
1951
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Aizenbashi
1951
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Story of a Beloved Wife
1951⭐ 7.0
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Saijoke no kyoen
1951
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The Tale of Genji
1951⭐ 6.0
as Priest
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限りなき情熱
1951
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Who Will Judge Me?
1951⭐ 8.0
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Freedom School
1951
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The White Orchid
1951
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Clothes of Deception
1951⭐ 7.0
as Kasama
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The End of the War
1950
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Scandal
1950⭐ 6.9
as Aoye's friend
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Yume o meshimase
1950
as Ton Chiki
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Town of Violence
1950⭐ 6.5
as Ango Shindo
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Spring Snow
1950
as Yasuji
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949⭐ 7.0
as Waretsuku
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948⭐ 9.0
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The Follower
1948
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Great X
1948
as Matsushita
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Drunken Angel
1948⭐ 7.6
as Shop Proprietor
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Temptation
1948⭐ 8.0
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The President and the Shopgirl
1948⭐ 10.0
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The Ball at the Anjo House
1947⭐ 7.0
as Yoshida
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947⭐ 7.2
as Photographer
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941⭐ 7.0
as Rokuzô Ôkuma
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Toumei na kisetsu
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