Taiji Tonoyama — Actor (117)
The Betrayers Out! (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
望郷と掟
other title: 望郷と掟
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
Conquest (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
悪党
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Kyôko Kishida
other title: Conquête / A Scoundrel
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
Policeman's Diary (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
警察日記
other title: 警察日記 / Keisatsu Nikki
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
On the Road (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
オン・ザ・ロード
other title: オン・ザ・ロード / On The Road
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to Reiko, as it would be an admission of police responsibility. Forced to give up her career, Reiko leaves Tokyo to return to her hometown on Okinawa, travelling by road up to Kagoshima, and Tomishima pursues her in order to apologize.
The Seburi Story (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
瀬降り物語
other title: 瀬降り物語 / Seburi monogatari
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Seasonal Wind (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
季節風
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Goro Noguchi / Keiko Usami
other title: 季節風
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in Tokyo. As a result, Shinji returns to his hometown to start life anew. A romantic drama inspired by the hit song of the same name by Goro Noguchi.
Faraway Tomorrow (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
遠い明日
other title: 遠い明日
A young man walks through the streets holding a sign that reads, “The trial for the Tobata Incident 19 years ago was a frame-up!” He has taken up the fight alone on behalf of his innocent father, who is serving time for murder.
The Bored Samurai (1983) [Movie] TMDB
旗本退屈男
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Mikijiro Hira / Eitarō Ozawa
other title: 旗本退屈男
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. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!
Ditch (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
どぶ
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Jūkichi Uno
other title: La zanja / どぶ
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
べらんめえ芸者
other title: べらんめえ芸者
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?