# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taiji-tonoyama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:35:10.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taiji-tonoyama"
name: "Taiji Tonoyama"
slug: "taiji-tonoyama"
description: "Taiji Tonoyama  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."
tagline: "Actor (1915–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taiji_Tonoyama_Studio_Still_from_Zankyo-no-Minato_1953_Scan10001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1915-10-17"
deathDate: "1989-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.37
  momentum:             1.569186875891583
  historical:           10.24184266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867401/"
    handle:    "nm0867401"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "تايچى تونوياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonoyama_Taiji"
    title: "Tonoyama Taiji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_Tonoyama"
    title: "Taiji Tonoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "تایجی تونویاما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_Tonoyama"
    title: "Taiji Tonoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AE%BF%E5%B1%B1%E6%B3%B0%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "殿山泰司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_Tonoyama"
    title: "Taiji Tonoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Тонояма, Тайдзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AE%BF%E5%B1%B1%E6%B3%B0%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "殿山泰司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AE%BF%E5%B1%B1%E6%B3%B0%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "殿山泰司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7676003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3522168"
    title: "Taiji Tonoyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump