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
- Project X: Unsung Heroes
- Stage 『Spirited Away』 as Kamaji
- Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 as Yasunori Okatome
- City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor
- Aimitagai
- 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 Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
- The Door into Summer as Professor Toi
- Lunch at a Famous Building: Special as Chiaki Uekusa
2020
- Lunch at a Famous Building as Chiaki Uekusa
- Fukushima 50 as Kazuhiko Fukuhara
- Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
- Midnight Swan as Mama Yoko
- Fancy
- #HandballStrive as Masashi
2019
- In Hand as Hiroshi Yamazaki
- Parallel World Love Story as Sudo
- The Witness as Yuichi Kimura
- Hydra as Teru Nakaya
2018
- In This Corner of the World as Entaro Hojo
- The Blood of Wolves as Hideo Doi
- My Little Monster as Shizuku's Father
- Happy Go Lucky
- Violence Voyager as Koike
- Room Laundering as Saizen
- Half End
- Life in Overtime as Toshihiko Aoyama
- The Many Faces of Ito
- Odd Final
2017
- Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare as Himself
- The Game of Business Card as Katayama Shoji
- Policeman and Me as Shuichi Yamamoto
- The Last Shot in the Bar as Matsuo
- Neko Atsume House as Asakusa
2016
- Cold Case: Door of Truth as Kudo Kensuke
- Hibana: Spark
- Too Young To Die! as Hato
- 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？ as Mikuriya Saburo
- Ame Onna as Rika's father
- Artist of Fasting as Narration (voice)
- ひと夏の隣人 as 鈴木次郎
2015
- Piece of Cake ... (Director)
2014
- The Long Goodbye as Haneoka
- Botanical Life of Varendar as Verandar
- Kabukicho Love Hotel as Masashi Kubota
- Monsterz as Mr. Kumoi
- A Drop of the Grapevine as Asahi
- The Vancouver Asahi as Tadaaki Matsuda
- Rose Color's Buko as Gangster
2013
- Nobody's Perfect as Shinichi Haitani
- RoomMate
- Disregarded People as President Maruyoshi
- Detective in the Bar as Matsuo
- Maruyama, the Middle Schooler as Saito
- AIBOU: X-DAY
2012
- The Drudgery Train as Secondhand Bookstore Manager
- The Samurai That Night as Nobuo Hoshi
- Fly with the Gold as Yamagishi
- A Road Stained Crimson
- 1+1=11
2011
- QP as Hiko
- Gantz: Perfect Answer as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Another Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Phone Call to the Bar
- The Egoists as Shinji Ninomiya
- YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- April Bride as Okuno
- Brass Knuckle Boys as Jimmy
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Shinto Priest
- Oh, My Buddha! ... (Director)
2008
- Ain't No Tomorrows as Yoshida
- Your Friend
- Climber's High as Enji Kishi
- The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kazuya Mizuno
- Otokotachi no uta
2007
- The Pride of the Temp as Narrator (voice)
- Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as a stuff of Toraoh
- Kamen Rider: THE NEXT as Scissors Jaguar
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Barber Owner
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Kazumi's Father
- How to Become Myself as Koji Ueshima
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yuji Miyoshi
- Prisoner/Terrorist as M
- Sea of Madness
- Cain's Descendant
2006
- Sway as Judge
- Gamera the Brave as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- Black Night as Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
- M as Pimp
- God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
- It's Only Talk as K
- SOUL TRAIN
- Prisoners as Self
- Haru, Bânîzu de
- Love Letter So-renka as Yui's father
2005
- Strange Circus as Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
- Until the Lights Come Back as Ryotaro Saeki
- Spring Snow
- Wolf Girl
- School Days
- Who's Camus Anyway? as Oyama
- Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
2004
- A Blue Automobile as Record Store Boss
- L'amant as A
- 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
- Kamachi as Sensei Komori
- Mask de 41 as Tadao Kuramochi
- Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World as Miho's Father
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
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
- MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
- Doing Time as Tanabe
- Drive
- Picaresque
- Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
- Barber's Sorrow as Barber
- Bastoni: The Stick Handlers as Matsunaga
2001
2000
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds as Man with telescope
- PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜 as 語り
- Monday as Mitsuhiko Shima
- Oshikiri
- Kamome as Akitoshi Fukuma
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
- Senrigan
- Tokyo Trash Baby
- Jorogumo
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
- Chinpira
1999
- Taboo as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- Dead or Alive as Afro Thug
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris as Doctor
- Gemini as Middle-aged Patient
- Ley Lines as Chan
- Jubaku: Spellbound as Weak guard
- The Night the Angel Turned Away as Tawada
- White-Collar Worker Kintaro as Shibamata
- The Line
1998
- Sleepless Town as Kenji Tozawa
- Scorpion: Double Venom
- Dr. Akagi as Nosaka
- Sada as Kin
- Tomie as Detective Harada
- Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2 as Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
- Bullet Ballet as Policeman
- Three Businessmen as Noodle Shop Waiter
- I Don't Have a Grave! as Takagi Noboru
- Andromedia as Goda
- Unlucky Monkey as Miyata
- A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
- Tadon and Chikuwa
- You Alone Can't See as Kimura
1997
- The Eel as Eiji Dojima
- Lie Lie Lie as Party Guest
- Full Metal Yakuza as Genpaku Hiraga
- Tokyo Fair Weather
- Postman Blues as Profiler
- The Defender as Edge
- Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu as Self
- Time Leap
- Rainy Dog as The Pursuer
- Kawaki no machi
- Prostitution Gang
- The Towers of Musashino Line
- The Things We Liked
1996
- San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
- Swallowtail Butterfly as Honda
- Gamera 2: Advent of Legion as Ishida
- Fudoh: The New Generation as Dealer being shot in toilet
- Dangan Runner as Shinkichi Yasuda
- Midori
- All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter as Kawasaki
- Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge as Shôsetsu Yui
- Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku as Kikura
- Love Hotel Night 2
- A Fragile Heart
- Sadistic Song
- Ladies Max
- 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
- Kamikaze Taxi as Chaplin
- Shinjuku Triad Society as Wang
- Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground as Detective Kono
- Goodbye for Tomorrow as Tetsu Sasayama
- Forever with You
- The Young Blood Typhoon
- Angel's Share
- Nozokiya
- Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
- Super-Coming
1994
- A New Love in Tokyo as Man with a Knife
- Angel Dust as Endo
- Undo as Psychiatrist
- Evil Dream
- N45゜ as Detective
- Black Money
- Level
- Pu
- At the Mercy of the Darkness
1993
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? as Yusuke's Father
- Wandering Brain
- Maohgai
- A Night in Nude as Kenzo
- Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
- Fried Dragon Fish as Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
- Tokyo Blood
- The Tomb & the Divorce as Tokio
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Takano
- Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
- Kuma-chan
- Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
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