Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama

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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祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!

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Onibaba

As Ushi

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The Naked Island

As Senta

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Shachō to onna tenin

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Fifth Movement

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Turbid youth

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Three Faces

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Ishimatsu of the Forest

As Waretsuku

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Hachiko

As Hashimoto

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Drunken Angel

As Shop Proprietor

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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

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Reminiscence

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Kuroneko

As Farmer

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Good Morning

As Pushy Man

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King of Pornography

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The Ballad of Narayama

As Teruyan

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Vengeance Is Mine

As Tanejiro Shibata

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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

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I am the Judge

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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

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Violence at Noon

As School director

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Dotanba

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The Insect Woman

As Foreman

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Strong Women, Weak Men

As Zenzo

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Today is Payday

As President of Akabane Construction

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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

As Shimamura

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Sixteen years old

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大吉ぼんのう鏡

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Empire of Passion

As Toichiro

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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

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My Second Brother

As Hemmi Gengoro

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Foundry Town

As Matsunaga

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Fruits of Passion

As Customer

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Drunken Harbor

As Doctor

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Dynamite Doctor

As Chairman

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Koina no Ginpei

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman

As Photographer

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Oiran

As Hachibei

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Evil Spirits of Japan

As Pachinko owner

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Seasonal Wind

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Children of Hiroshima

As Owner of a ship

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Edo Porn

As Tattooist

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Golden Partners

As Bend master

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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

As Tonomura

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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

As Shimamura

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The King

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Human

As Kamegoro

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Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

As Kurazo

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Muddy River

As Man on Festival Boat

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Attack at Daylight

As Saeki

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Three Resurrected Drunkards

As Old man

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快傑耶茶坊

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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out

As Kofukuya's Owner

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Hell Riders in Kyoto

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The Castle of Sand

As Publican at Ebisu

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Ballad of Orin

As Mountain Man

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Who's The Real Killer

As Frank

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Jazz Daimyo

As Gensai

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Whistling in the morning

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Yukyo-retsuden

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Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi

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The Iron Crown

As Physiognomist

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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

As Ippei

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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

As Sex Show Manager

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The Key

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The Ceremony

As Old Chief

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One Passed Through Hell

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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

As Kinetarô Kitamura

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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

As The Master

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Housewife's Experience: Tenement

As Harukichi

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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

As Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)

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East China Sea

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My Way

As Yoshizo Kawamura

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Sisters of Nishijin

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Love's Family Tree

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The Desperate

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Sex and Fury

As Tokuzô Kasai

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Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

As Sôiku

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A Ghost Love Story of Japan

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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

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The House of the Sleeping Virgins

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Junko's Bliss

As Taizô Sakata

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Thousand Cranes

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Izayoi kaidō

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Secret

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Birth of a Jazz Maiden

As Senkichi Hanamura

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War and Flowers

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Murahachibu

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Spring Snow

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Hageshī kawa

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Eros Eterna

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Song of a Traveller

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幽霊列車

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Why Not?

As Jyosyuya

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限りなき情熱

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In the Realm of the Senses

As Old Beggar

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Child of the Sun

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Captive's Island

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Scandal

As Aoye's friend

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Irezumi

As Horiatsu

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Zegen

As Shimada

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Akitsu Hot Springs

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The Bored Samurai

As Father of Ogin

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Dear Summer Sister

As Takuzo Sakurada

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18 Roughs

As Murata

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Day Dream

As Guard

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The Ditch

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Legend of the Eight Samurai

As Hikojii

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The Rendezvous

As Murai

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Black Rain

As Old Priest

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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

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Gate of Hell

As Kakisuke

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Nuclear Gypsies

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Hymn

As Harumatsu

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Silence

As Prison guard

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Irohanihoheto

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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

As Kumakichi Takeda

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Stray Dog

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The Little Runaway

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Policeman's Diary

As Patrolman Kuramochi

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The Wolves

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Black Report

As Shinsaku Tsuda

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Underwater Murder

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The Last Swordsman

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The Far Road

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Cape Ashizuri

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Tetsugen

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Nurse's Husband

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Night Drum

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Our Town

As Shime

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Four Hours of Terror

As Teppei Sasada

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Before Dawn

As Risaburo

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Evil Spirits in the Darkness

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The Heart

As S's Father

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On the Road

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Bamboo Doll of Echizen

As Monk

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Beyond the Green Hills

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Endless Desire

As Ramen shop owner

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An Innocent Witch

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The Human Wall

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Dark Room

As Doctor(医師)

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Tomorrow Evening

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River of Fireflies

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Harbor Rats

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Tokyo Pop

As Grandfather

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Story of a Beloved Wife

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Tree Without Leaves

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Conquest

As Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura

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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

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A Story from Echigo

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Love Lost in Tears

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Tokyo no Kodoku

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Street of Violence

As Ango Shindo

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A Woman’s Road

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Libido

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Hobo Village

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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

As Kotani

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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

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Location

As Inumaru

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Great X

As Matsushita

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The Ball at the Anjo House

As Yoshida

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Case of the Disjointed Murder

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Evening Primrose

As Genji's father

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Chibusa o daku musume tachi

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The Shadow of Fear

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Seisaku's Wife

As Retired Man

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Season of Farewell

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Wind, Woman and Road

As Kenta

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The Lucky Status Symbol

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King of the Widow-Killers

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The Betrayers Out!

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The Strangling

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Deeper Than Blue

As Shunkai

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Blind Devotion

As Hikozo

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Time Within Memory

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Mother

As Tajima

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Hawaiian Dream

As Shokichi Shimamura

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Internees of Kampili

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The Battle of Kawanakajima

As Rokuzô Ôkuma

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The End of a Day

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The Champion

As Pote-chan

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Darkness at Noon

As Uhei Matsumura

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Hooligans on Buggies

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The Revelation of a Geisha

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Pigs and Battleships

As Chen

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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

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Love is Lost

As Gensaku

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Clothes of Deception

As Kasama

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Turtle Geisha

As Ishibashi

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The Start of Life

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The Seburi Story

As Kamezo

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Daughter of Time

As Fireworks Hand 2

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Faraway Tomorrow

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A Pool Without Water

As Pharmacist

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Did the Red Bird Escape?

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Stolen Pleasure

As Goro

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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

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Kanto Wanderer

As Boss Izu

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Lost Sex

As Gonpachi

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Fresh Leaves

As Zenkichi Segawa

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Yokohama BJ Blues

As Isao Hori

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Until Evening

As Restaurant's Owner

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Wait for Tomorrow

As Inosuke Uematsu

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Intentions of Murder

As Beret Musician

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Tales of President Mito

As President Toyotomi

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Strange Affinity

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The Homeless

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The Young and Bad

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The School Cap

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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

As Doctor Otsuki

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Nippon no obaachan

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Tower of Lilies

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Miniature

As Yamada

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The Fall of Teenager

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The Boy Who Came Back

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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

As Nomura

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Shiawase wa doko ni

As Shokichi

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The Gate of Youth Part 2

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Burden of Love

As Mr. Yamaguchi

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The Irresponsible Fool

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Love and Faith

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Nikoyon monogatari

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Samurai from Nowhere

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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

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Tora-san, the Expert

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Tora-san's Dream of Spring

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The White Orchid

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Who Will Judge Me?

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The Erotomaniac Daimyo

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Sakura-tai Chiru

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Ai Sureba Koso

As Bartender (segment 1)

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The Street Without Sun

As Gen'ichi Inoue

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Tomorrow

As Storekeeper

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Song of the Spring Pony

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Temptation

As Tobe

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On This Earth

As Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle

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The Pornographers

As Father

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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

As Masumura

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Hobo General

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Temptation

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Dedication of the Great Buddha

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Yokubo

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Knock Down

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Policeman's Diary, Part 2

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Onna no Iji

As Nakano

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The Beauty and the Dragon

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Kokoro no sanmyaku

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The Horizon

As Tanimoto

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Lucky Dragon No. 5

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Actress

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Violence

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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

As Detective Machida

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Muhō Ichidai

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Kiri ni Kieta Hito

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Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

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Two Harmonicas

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Shōjo

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The Roads Men Travel

As Sone

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A-Un

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Kinagashi Bugyō

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Ai yori aoku

As 俊界和尚

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Ohanahan

As 溝呂木老人

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Pro Hunter