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
- City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor
- Stage 『Spirited Away』 as Kamaji
- City of Desire No. 5 Drifting Dotonbori Kids as 杉山高志
2023
2022
- You've Got A Friend
- Love Life as Makoto Ōsawa
2021
2020
- Fukushima 50 as Kazuhiko Fukuhara
- Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
- Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
- Midnight Swan as Mama Yoko
- #HandballStrive as Masashi
- Fancy
2019
- The Witness as Yuichi Kimura
- In Hand as Hiroshi Yamazaki
- Parallel World Love Story as Sudo
- Hydra as Teru Nakaya
2018
- In This Corner of the World as Entaro Hojo
- My Little Monster as Shizuku's Father
- The Blood of Wolves as Hideo Doi
- Violence Voyager as Koike
- Life in Overtime as Toshihiko Aoyama
- Room Laundering as Saizen
- The Many Faces of Ito
- Odd Final
- Happy Go Lucky
- Half End
2017
- Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare as Himself
- The Last Shot in the Bar as Matsuo
- The Game of Business Card as Katayama Shoji
- Policeman and Me as Shuichi Yamamoto
- Neko Atsume House as Asakusa
2016
- Hibana: Spark
- Ame Onna as Rika's father
- Too Young To Die! as Hato
- 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？ as Mikuriya Saburo
- Artist of Fasting as Narration (voice)
- ひと夏の隣人 as 鈴木次郎
2015
- Piece of Cake ... (Director)
2014
- Kabukicho Love Hotel as Masashi Kubota
- Botanical Life of Varendar as Verandar
- The Vancouver Asahi as Tadaaki Matsuda
- The Long Goodbye as Haneoka
- A Drop of the Grapevine as Asahi
- Monsterz as Mr. Kumoi
- Rose Color's Buko as Gangster
2013
- Detective in the Bar as Matsuo
- RoomMate
- Maruyama, the Middle Schooler as Saito
- Disregarded People as President Maruyoshi
- Nobody's Perfect
- 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
- Gantz: Perfect Answer as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- The Egoists as Shinji Ninomiya
- Another Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- QP as Hiko
- A Man with Style as Sanada
- YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- Oh, My Buddha! ... (Director)
- Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Shinto Priest
2008
- Climber's High as Enji Kishi
- Your Friend
- The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kazuya Mizuno
- Ain't No Tomorrows as Yoshida
- Otokotachi no uta
2007
- The Pride of the Temp as Narrator (voice)
- Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Barber Owner
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Kazumi's Father
- Kamen Rider: THE NEXT as Scissors Jaguar
- Prisoner/Terrorist as M
- Cain's Descendant
- How to Become Myself as Koji Ueshima
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yuji Miyoshi
- The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as a stuff of Toraoh
- Sea of Madness
2006
- Gamera the Brave as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- Sway as Judge
- It's Only Talk as K
- God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
- M as Pimp
- Black Night as Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
- 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
- Spring Snow
- Until the Lights Come Back as Ryotaro Saeki
- Wolf Girl
- Who's Camus Anyway? as Oyama
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
- Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
- School Days
2004
- A Blue Automobile as Record Store Boss
- L'amant as A
- Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World as Miho's Father
- Kamachi as Sensei Komori
- 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
- Mask de 41 as Tadao Kuramochi
- 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
- Drive
- Doing Time as Tanabe
- September 11 as Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- Barber's Sorrow
- Aiki
- Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
- MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
- Bastoni: The Stick Handlers as Matsunaga
- Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
- Picaresque
2001
2000
- Monday as Mitsuhiko Shima
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds
- PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜 as 語り
- Tokyo Trash Baby
- Chinpira
- Senrigan
- Oshikiri
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
- Kamome as Akitoshi Fukuma
- Jorogumo
1999
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris as Doctor
- Taboo as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- Gemini as Middle-aged Patient
- Dead or Alive as Afro Thug
- White-Collar Worker Kintaro as Shibamata
- The Night the Angel Turned Away as Tawada
- Ley Lines as Chan
- The Line
1998
- Sleepless Town as Kenji Tozawa
- Tomie as Detective Harada
- Dr. Akagi as Nosaka
- Andromedia as Goda
- Bullet Ballet as Policeman
- Scorpion: Double Venom
- Unlucky Monkey as Miyata
- Tadon and Chikuwa
- Sada as Kin
- Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2 as Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
- A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
- I Don't Have a Grave! as Takagi Noboru
- Three Businessmen as Noodle Shop Waiter
- You Alone Can't See as Kimura
1997
- The Eel as Eiji Dojima
- Rainy Dog as The Pursuer
- Postman Blues as Profiler
- Tokyo Fair Weather
- The Things We Liked
- Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu as Self
- Lie Lie Lie as Party Guest
- Time Leap
- The Towers of Musahino Line
- Prostitution Gang
- Full Metal Yakuza as Genpaku Hiraga
- The Defender as Edge
- Kawaki no machi
1996
- Fudoh: The New Generation as Dealer being shot in toilet
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion as Ishida
- Swallowtail Butterfly as Honda
- San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
- Dangan Runner as Shinkichi Yasuda
- Midori
- All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter as Kawasaki
- Ignatius
- Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge as Shôsetsu Yui
- Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon as Shôsetsu Yui
- Love Hotel Night 2
- Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku as Kikura
- A Fragile Heart
- Sadistic Song
- Ladies Max
1995
- Love Letter as Female Itsuki's Father
- Shinjuku Triad Society as Wang
- Ring as Jotaro Nagao
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? as Yusuke's Father
- Goodbye for Tomorrow as Tetsu Sasayama
- Tokyo Fist as Tattoo Artist
- Kamikaze Taxi as Chaplin
- Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground as Detective Kono
- Nozokiya
- Forever with You
- The Young Blood Typhoon
- Angel's Share
- Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
- Super-Coming
1994
- A New Love in Tokyo as Man with a Knife
- Undo as Psychiatrist
- Angel Dust as Endo
- Evil Dream
- N45゜ as Detective
- At the Mercy of the Darkness
- Pu
- Black Money
- Level
1993
- Maohgai
- A Night in Nude as Kenzo
- Fried Dragon Fish as Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
- Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
- Kuma-chan
- Wandering Brain
- Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
- Tokyo Blood
- Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
- The Tomb & the Divorce as Tokio
- My Beloved Ultraseven as Takano
1992
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer as Taniguchi Tomoo
- All Night Long as Airline Manager
- Kirai ja nai yo 2
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
- New Joyful Embarrassing Story
1990
1989
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man as Salaryman
- Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
- Arietta as Red Saturn Club Manager
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