Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 æ³°å ¸, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915â€"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
KÅ zaburÅ Yoshimura.He served in the Japanese military in China in
the Second Sino-Japanese War and considered himself to have narrowly
escaped from death. He was married but also had a mistress and
maintained relationships with both women until the end of his life. He
was a keen reader of detective stories and a fan of jazz music. He
wrote a series of semi-autobiographical essays under the title Sanmon
Yakusha (三文役者), meaning "third rate actor". 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
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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
KÅ zaburÅ Yoshimura.He served in the Japanese military in China in
the Second Sino-Japanese War and considered himself to have narrowly
escaped from death. He was married but also had a mistress and
maintained relationships with both women until the end of his life. He
was a keen reader of detective stories and a fan of jazz music. He
wrote a series of semi-autobiographical essays under the title Sanmon
Yakusha (三文役者), meaning "third rate actor". 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.
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