Tomorowo Taguchi
Born: 1957-11-30 in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Tomorowo Taguchi (born November 30, 1957) is a Japanese actor. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan (based on the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui) in 1982. He was also a prominent cult musician in the Tokyo underground scene with his band Bachikaburi in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is probably most well known to the West as the lead actor in Tetsuo and Tetsuo II directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. He also makes regular appearances in Takashi Miike's films. He became known to the Japanese public as a narrator for the TV documentary series Project X - Challengers which aired between 2000 and 2005 by NHK. Taguchi directed Iden & Tity in 2003 and his second film, Shikisoku Generation, is scheduled for release in 2009.
Filmography
2026
- Street Kingdom: Make your own sound. ... (Director)
2025
- Human Specimens as Man walking his dog
- Unreachable as Jiro Kayama
- Welcome to the Village
2024
- House of Ninjas as Jin Hamashima
- 新プロジェクトX〜挑戦者たち〜
- Aimitagai
- Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 as Yasunori Okatome
- Stage 『Spirited Away』 as Kamaji
- City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor
- City of Desire No. 5 Drifting Dotonbori Kids as 杉山高志
2023
2022
- Love Life as Makoto Ōsawa
- You've Got A Friend
2021
- The Door into Summer as Professor Toi
- The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
- 名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編
2020
- Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
- Fukushima 50 as Kazuhiko Fukuhara
- Lunch at a Famous Building as Chiaki Uekusa
- Midnight Swan as Mama Yoko
- Fancy
- #HandballStrive as Masashi
2019
- In Hand as Hiroshi Yamazaki
- Hydra as Teru Nakaya
- The Witness as Yuichi Kimura
- Parallel World Love Story as Sudo
2018
- In This Corner of the World as Entaro Hojo
- The Blood of Wolves as Hideo Doi
- My Little Monster as Shizuku's Father
- Violence Voyager as Koike
- Room Laundering as Saizen
- The Many Faces of Ito
- Life in Overtime as Toshihiko Aoyama
- Happy Go Lucky
- Odd Final
- Half End
2017
- Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare as Himself
- Policeman and Me as Shuichi Yamamoto
- The Game of Business Card as Katayama Shoji
- Neko Atsume House as Asakusa
- The Last Shot in the Bar as Matsuo
2016
- Hibana: Spark
- 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？ as Mikuriya Saburo
- Too Young To Die! as Hato
- Artist of Fasting as Narration (voice)
- ひと夏の隣人 as 鈴木次郎
- Ame Onna as Rika's father
2015
- Piece of Cake ... (Director)
2014
- The Long Goodbye as Haneoka
- Kabukicho Love Hotel as Masashi Kubota
- Botanical Life of Varendar as Verandar
- Monsterz as Mr. Kumoi
- The Vancouver Asahi as Tadaaki Matsuda
- A Drop of the Grapevine as Asahi
- Rose Color's Buko as Gangster
2013
- Detective in the Bar as Matsuo
- Disregarded People as President Maruyoshi
- Nobody's Perfect
- AIBOU: X-DAY
- RoomMate
- Maruyama, the Middle Schooler as Saito
2012
- The Drudgery Train as Secondhand Bookstore Manager
- Fly with the Gold as Yamagishi
- The Samurai That Night as Nobuo Hoshi
- A Road Stained Crimson
- 1+1=11
2011
- QP as Hiko
- Gantz: Perfect Answer as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Another Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- The Egoists as Shinji Ninomiya
- YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex as Narrator (voice)
- Phone Call to the Bar
- A Man with Style as Sanada
- River as Maid cafe owner
- Chivalrous Sinking
2010
- Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Piecing Me Back Together as Keisuke Ogi
- Household X as Kenichi Hashimoto
- Shinigami no Yaiba
2009
- Midnight Diner as Lyricist
- Brass Knuckle Boys as Jimmy
- April Bride as Okuno
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Shinto Priest
- Oh, My Buddha! ... (Director)
2008
- Climber's High as Enji Kishi
- Otokotachi no uta
- Your Friend
- The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kazuya Mizuno
- Ain't No Tomorrows as Yoshida
2007
- The Pride of the Temp as Narrator (voice)
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as a stuff of Toraoh
- Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
- How to Become Myself as Koji Ueshima
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Barber Owner
- Kamen Rider: THE NEXT as Scissors Jaguar
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Kazumi's Father
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yuji Miyoshi
- Prisoner/Terrorist as M
- Cain's Descendant
- Sea of Madness
2006
- Gamera the Brave as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- It's Only Talk as K
- Sway as Judge
- Black Night as Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
- God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
- Haru, Bânîzu de
- Love Letter So-renka as Yui's father
- M as Pimp
- Prisoners as Self
- SOUL TRAIN
2005
- Strange Circus as Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
- Spring Snow
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
- Until the Lights Come Back as Ryotaro Saeki
- School Days
- Who's Camus Anyway? as Oyama
- Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
- Wolf Girl
2004
- 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
- A Blue Automobile as Record Store Boss
- L'amant as A
- Mask de 41 as Tadao Kuramochi
- Kamachi as Sensei Komori
- Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World as Miho's Father
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
2003
- Owl
- A Snake of June as Editor-in-Chief
- Vibrator as Cop
- Iden & Tity ... (Director)
- Cop Festival: New Beginning
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
2002
- The Private Detective Mike
- September 11 as Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Aiki
- Drive
- Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
- Doing Time as Tanabe
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
- Barber's Sorrow as Barber
- Picaresque
- Bastoni: The Stick Handlers as Matsunaga
- MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
2001
2000
- PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜 as 語り
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds
- Monday as Mitsuhiko Shima
- Oshikiri
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
- Tokyo Trash Baby
- Kamome as Akitoshi Fukuma
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
- Chinpira
- Senrigan
- Jorogumo
1999
- Dead or Alive as Afro Thug
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris as Doctor
- Taboo as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- Ley Lines as Chan
- Gemini as Middle-aged Patient
- White-Collar Worker Kintaro as Shibamata
- The Night the Angel Turned Away as Tawada
- The Line
1998
- Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2 as Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
- Tomie as Detective Harada
- Sada as Kin
- Sleepless Town as Kenji Tozawa
- Dr. Akagi as Nosaka
- Bullet Ballet as Policeman
- Three Businessmen as Noodle Shop Waiter
- Andromedia as Goda
- Scorpion: Double Venom
- Tadon and Chikuwa
- Unlucky Monkey as Miyata
- I Don't Have a Grave! as Takagi Noboru
- A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
- You Alone Can't See as Kimura
1997
- The Eel as Eiji Dojima
- Postman Blues as Profiler
- Tokyo Fair Weather
- Rainy Dog as The Pursuer
- Full Metal Yakuza as Genpaku Hiraga
- The Towers of Musashino Line
- Lie Lie Lie as Party Guest
- Time Leap
- The Things We Liked
- The Defender as Edge
- Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu as Self
- Kawaki no machi
- Prostitution Gang
1996
- Swallowtail Butterfly as Honda
- San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
- Ladies Max
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion as Ishida
- Fudoh: The New Generation as Dealer being shot in toilet
- Sadistic Song
- Dangan Runner as Shinkichi Yasuda
- All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter as Kawasaki
- Midori
- Love Hotel Night 2
- Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge as Shôsetsu Yui
- Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku as Kikura
- A Fragile Heart
- Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon as Shôsetsu Yui
- Ignatius
1995
- Love Letter as Female Itsuki's Father
- Tokyo Fist as Tattoo Artist
- Ring as Jotaro Nagao
- Shinjuku Triad Society as Wang
- Kamikaze Taxi as Chaplin
- Goodbye for Tomorrow as Tetsu Sasayama
- Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground as Detective Kono
- Nozokiya
- Angel's Share
- Forever with You
- Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
- The Young Blood Typhoon
- Super-Coming
1994
- A New Love in Tokyo as Man with a Knife
- Evil Dream
- Angel Dust as Endo
- Undo as Psychiatrist
- Black Money
- Pu
- At the Mercy of the Darkness
- N45゜ as Detective
- Level
1993
- Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
- A Night in Nude as Kenzo
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? as Yusuke's Father
- Maohgai
- The Tomb & the Divorce as Tokio
- Wandering Brain
- Fried Dragon Fish as Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
- Tokyo Blood
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Takano
- Kuma-chan
- Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
- Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
1992
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer as Taniguchi Tomoo
- All Night Long as Airline Manager
- Kirai ja nai yo 2
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
1990
1989
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man as Salaryman
- Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
- Arietta as Red Saturn Club Manager
1987
- The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo as Hijikata
- Robinson's Garden as Man wrestling with restaurant table
1986
- The Phantom of Regular Size as The Man
1984
1982
1971
- Kamen Rider as Amadum