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
2025
- Unreachable as Jiro Kayama
- Welcome to the Village
2024
- City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor
- City of Desire No. 5 Drifting Dotonbori Kids as 杉山高志
- House of Ninjas as Jin Hamashima
- Aimitagai
- Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 as Yasunori Okatome
- 新プロジェクトX〜挑戦者たち〜
2023
2022
- Love Life as Makoto Ōsawa
- You've Got A Friend
2021
2020
- Fukushima 50 as Kazuhiko Fukuhara
- Midnight Swan as Mama Yoko
- Fancy
- Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
- Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
- #HandballStrive as Masashi
2019
- Hydra as Teru Nakaya
- The Witness as Yuichi Kimura
- Parallel World Love Story as Sudo
- In Hand as Hiroshi Yamazaki
2018
- My Little Monster as Shizuku's Father
- Room Laundering as Saizen
- The Blood of Wolves as Hideo Doi
- Violence Voyager as Koike
- Life in Overtime as Toshihiko Aoyama
- Odd Final
- Half End
- The Many Faces of Ito
- In This Corner of the World as Entaro Hojo
- Happy Go Lucky
2017
- The Last Shot in the Bar as Matsuo
- Policeman and Me as Shuichi Yamamoto
- Neko Atsume House as Asakusa
- Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare as Himself
- The Game of Business Card as Katayama Shoji
2016
- Too Young To Die! as Hato
- Ame Onna as Rika's father
- ひと夏の隣人 as 鈴木次郎
- Hibana: Spark
- 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？ as Mikuriya Saburo
- Artist of Fasting as Narration (voice)
2015
- Piece of Cake ... (Director)
2014
- Monsterz as Mr. Kumoi
- Kabukicho Love Hotel as Masashi Kubota
- A Drop of the Grapevine as Asahi
- Rose Color's Buko as Gangster
- The Vancouver Asahi as Tadaaki Matsuda
- The Long Goodbye as Haneoka
- Botanical Life of Varendar as Verandar
2013
- AIBOU: X-DAY
- Detective in the Bar 2 as Matsuo
- RoomMate
- Disregarded People as President Maruyoshi
- Nobody's Perfect
- Maruyama, the Middle Schooler as Saito
2012
- The Samurai That Night as Nobuo Hoshi
- Fly with the Gold as Yamagishi
- The Drudgery Train as Secondhand Bookstore Manager
- A Road Stained Crimson
- 1+1=11
2011
- River as Maid cafe owner
- Another Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Gantz: Perfect Answer as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- The Egoists as Shinji Ninomiya
- A Man with Style as Sanada
- Chivalrous Sinking
- QP as Hiko
- YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex as Narrator (voice)
2010
- Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Piecing Me Back Together as Keisuke Ogi
- Shinigami no Yaiba
- Household X as Kenichi Hashimoto
2009
- Midnight Diner as Lyricist
- Brass Knuckle Boys as Jimmy
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Shinto Priest
- Oh, My Buddha! ... (Director)
- April Bride as Okuno
2008
- Ain't No Tomorrows as Yoshida
- Climber's High as Enji Kishi
- Otokotachi no uta
- The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kazuya Mizuno
2007
- Kamen Rider: THE NEXT as Scissors Jaguar
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as a stuff of Toraoh
- Haken no Hinkaku as Narrator (voice)
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Kazumi's Father
- Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
- Prisoner/Terrorist as M
- How to Become Myself as Koji Ueshima
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Barber Owner
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yuji Miyoshi
- Sea of Madness
- Cain's Descendant
2006
- M as Pimp
- Gamera the Brave as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- Sway as Judge
- Black Night as Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
- It's Only Talk as K
- God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
- Haru, Bânîzu de
- SOUL TRAIN
- Love Letter So-renka as Yui's father
- Prisoners as Self
2005
- Strange Circus as Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
- Until the Lights Come Back as Ryotaro Saeki
- スクールデイズ
- Wolf Girl
- Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
- Who's Camus Anyway? as Oyama
- Spring Snow
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
2004
- L'amant as A
- Kamachi as Sensei Komori
- A Blue Automobile as Record Store Boss
- Mask de 41 as Tadao Kuramochi
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
- 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
- Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World as Miho's father
2003
- A Snake of June as Editor-in-Chief
- Vibrator as Cop
- Owl
- Iden & Tity ... (Director)
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
- Cop Festival: New Beginning
2002
- Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
- Doing Time as Tanabe
- Drive
- Barber's Sorrow
- The Private Detective Mike
- September 11 as Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
- Aiki
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
- MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
2000
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
- Tokyo Trash Baby
- Monday as Mitsuhiko Shima
- Chinpira
- Kamome as Akitoshi Fukuma
- Senrigan
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds
- Jorogumo
- Oshikiri
- PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜 as 語り
1999
- Gemini as Middle-aged Patient
- Ley Lines as Chan
- Taboo as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris as Doctor
- Dead or Alive as Afro Thug
- The Line
- The Night the Angel Turned Away as Tawada
- White-Collar Worker Kintaro as Shibamata
1998
- Sada as Kin
- Three Businessmen as Noodle Shop Waiter
- Tomie as Detective Harada
- Scorpion: Double Venom
- Dr. Akagi as Nosaka
- Bullet Ballet as Policeman
- Andromedia as Goda
- Sleepless Town as Kenji Tozawa
- Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2 as Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
- You Alone Can't See as Kimura
- I Don't Have a Grave! as Takagi Noboru
- Unlucky Monkey as Miyata
- Tadon and Chikuwa
- A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
1997
- Full Metal Yakuza as Genpaku Hiraga
- The Defender as Edge
- The Eel as Eiji Dojima
- Postman Blues as Profiler
- The Towers of Musahino Line
- Tokyo Fair Weather
- Time Leap
- Rainy Dog as The Pursuer
- Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu as Self
- Kawaki no machi
- The Things We Liked
- Prostitution Gang
- Lie Lie Lie as Party Guest
1996
- Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku as Kikura
- Sadistic Song
- Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge as Shôsetsu Yui
- Midori
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion as Ishida
- All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter as Kawasaki
- Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon as Shôsetsu Yui
- Swallowtail Butterfly as Honda
- Love Hotel Night 2
- Fudoh: The New Generation as Dealer being shot in toilet
- Dangan Runner as Shinkichi Yasuda
- Ignatius
- Ladies Max
- A Fragile Heart
- San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
1995
- Kamikaze Taxi as Chaplin
- Love Letter as Female Itsuki's Father
- Shinjuku Triad Society as Wang
- Ring as Jotaro Nagao
- Nozokiya
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? as Yusuke's Father
- Goodbye for Tomorrow as Tetsu Sasayama
- Forever with You
- Tokyo Fist as Tattoo Artist
- Angel's Share
- Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground as Detective Kono
- Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
- The Young Blood Typhoon
- Super-Coming
1994
- Undo as Psychiatrist
- A New Love in Tokyo as Man with a Knife
- Evil Dream
- Angel Dust as Endo
- Pu
- Level
- N45゜ as Detective
- At the Mercy of the Darkness
1993
- Tokyo Blood
- Wandering Brain
- A Night in Nude as Kenzo
- Kuma-chan
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Takano
- The Tomb & the Divorce as Tokio
- Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
- Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
- Fried Dragon Fish as Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
- Maohgai
- Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
1992
- All Night Long as Airline Manager
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
- Kirai ja nai yo 2
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer as Taniguchi Tomoo
1990
1989
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man as Salaryman
- Arietta as Red Saturn Club Manager
- Guinea Pig Part 6: Android of Notre Dame
- tetsuo: the iron man FIRST CUT as Salaryman
1987
- Robinson's Garden as Man wrestling with restaurant table
- The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo as Hijikata
1986
- The Phantom of Regular Size as The Man
1984
1982
1971
- Kamen Rider as Amadum