Tomorowo Taguchi
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Human Specimens as Man walking his dog
- 2025 · Unreachable as Jiro Kayama
- 2025 · Welcome to the Village as
- 2024 · Aimitagai as
- 2024 · City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor as
- 2024 · City of Desire No. 5 Drifting Dotonbori Kids as 杉山高志
- 2024 · 新プロジェクトX〜挑戦者たち〜 as
- 2024 · Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 as Yasunori Okatome
- 2024 · House of Ninjas as Jin Hamashima
- 2023 · City of Desire No.2 - The Dark Fixer as
- 2022 · Love Life as Makoto Ōsawa
- 2018 · Odd Final as
- 2018 · Violence Voyager as Koike
- 2018 · The Many Faces of Ito as
- 2017 · Neko Atsume House as Asakusa
- 2016 · 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか? as Mikuriya Saburo
- 2014 · Rose Color's Buko as Gangster
- 2013 · RoomMate as
- 2013 · Maruyama, the Middle Schooler as Saito
- 2012 · 1+1=11 as
- 2012 · A Road Stained Crimson as
- 2011 · A Man with Style as Sanada
- 2010 · Piecing Me Back Together as Keisuke Ogi
- 2007 · The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yuji Miyoshi
- 2007 · The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi as a stuff of Toraoh
- 2007 · Prisoner/Terrorist as M
- 2007 · Sea of Madness as
- 2006 · M as Pimp
- 2006 · Sway as Judge
- 2006 · God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand as
- 2006 · It's Only Talk as K
- 2005 · Until the Lights Come Back as Ryotaro Saeki
- 2005 · Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger as
- 2005 · Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make as
- 2004 · A Blue Automobile as Record Store Boss
- 2003 · Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer as
- 2002 · Aiki as
- 2002 · Barber's Sorrow as
- 2002 · September 11 as Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
- 2002 · Drive as
- 2002 · Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me as
- 2000 · Dead or Alive 2: Birds as
- 2000 · Chinpira as
- 2000 · Jorogumo as
- 2000 · Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5 as
- 2000 · Kamome as Akitoshi Fukuma
- 2000 · Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer as
- 1999 · Dead or Alive as Afro Thug
- 1999 · The Line as
- 1999 · The Night the Angel Turned Away as Tawada
- 1998 · Tadon and Chikuwa as
- 1998 · Scorpion: Double Venom as
- 1998 · A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo as
- 1997 · Full Metal Yakuza as Genpaku Hiraga
- 1997 · The Things We Liked as
- 1997 · Prostitution Gang as
- 1996 · Ignatius as
- 1996 · All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter as Kawasaki
- 1996 · Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon as Shôsetsu Yui
- 1996 · Sadistic Song as
- 1996 · Ladies Max as
- 1995 · Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? as Yusuke's Father
- 1995 · Nozokiya as
- 1993 · Puru Puru Angelic Holiday as
- 1993 · Wandering Brain as
- 1993 · Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters as
- 1993 · Fried Dragon Fish as Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
- 1990 · Primary Colour High School Girl Pink Picture Book as
- 1987 · Robinson's Garden as Man wrestling with restaurant table
- Future · Byplayers: What If Supporting Actors Lived On a Deserted Island for a TV Tokyo Morning Drama? as
- 2023 · City of Desire No. 4 Outrageous and Dirty Social Network Money as
- 2023 · リムジン as
- 2023 · City of Desire No.3 - The Lizard of Minami as
- 2023 · City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution as
- 2023 · Sanctuary as
- 2023 · Spirited Away: Live on Stage as 鍋爐爺爺
- 2022 · You've Got A Friend as
- 2021 · The Door into Summer as Professor Toi
- 2021 · The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood as
- 2021 · 名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編 as
- 2021 · Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors as
- 2020 · Midnight Swan as Mama Yoko
- 2020 · Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo as
- 2020 · Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo as Uekusa Chiaki
- 2020 · #HandballStrive as Masashi
- 2020 · Fukushima 50 as Kazuhiko Fukuhara
- 2020 · Fancy as
- 2020 · Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist as
- 2019 · The Witness as Yuichi Kimura
- 2019 · Parallel World Love Story as Sudo
- 2019 · Hydra as Teru Nakaya
- 2019 · In Hand as Hiroshi Yamazaki
- 2018 · Happy Go Lucky as
- 2018 · In This Corner of the World as Entaro Hojo
- 2018 · Room Laundering as Saizen
- 2018 · Life in Overtime as Toshihiko Aoyama
- 2018 · The Blood of Wolves as Hideo Doi
- 2018 · My Little Monster as Shizuku's Father
- 2018 · Half End as
- 2017 · The Game of Business Card as Katayama Shoji
- 2017 · The Last Shot in the Bar as Matsuo
- 2017 · Policeman and Me as Shuichi Yamamoto
- 2017 · Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare as Himself
- 2016 · ひと夏の隣人 as 鈴木次郎
- 2016 · Too Young To Die! as Hato
- 2016 · Ame Onna as Rika's father
- 2016 · Hibana: Spark as
- 2016 · Artist of Fasting as Narration (voice)
- 2014 · A Drop of the Grapevine as Asahi
- 2014 · The Vancouver Asahi as Tadaaki Matsuda
- 2014 · Kabukicho Love Hotel as Masashi Kubota
- 2014 · Monsterz as Mr. Kumoi
- 2014 · The Long Goodbye as Haneoka
- 2014 · Botanical Life of Varendar as Verandar
- 2013 · Disregarded People as President Maruyoshi
- 2013 · Detective in the Bar 2 as Matsuo
- 2013 · AIBOU: X-DAY as
- 2013 · Nobody's Perfect as
- 2012 · The Samurai That Night as Nobuo Hoshi
- 2012 · Fly with the Gold as Yamagishi
- 2012 · The Drudgery Train as Secondhand Bookstore Manager
- 2011 · QP as Hiko
- 2011 · The Egoists as Shinji Ninomiya
- 2011 · Chivalrous Sinking as
- 2011 · Gantz: Perfect Answer as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- 2011 · Another Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- 2011 · River as Maid cafe owner
- 2011 · YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Gantz as Yoshikazu Suzuki
- 2010 · Household X as Kenichi Hashimoto
- 2010 · Shinigami no Yaiba as
- 2009 · Midnight Diner as Lyricist
- 2009 · April Bride as Okuno
- 2009 · Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster as Shinto Priest
- 2009 · Brass Knuckle Boys as Jimmy
- 2008 · Ain't No Tomorrows as Yoshida
- 2008 · Otokotachi no uta as
- 2008 · Climber's High as Enji Kishi
- 2008 · The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Kazuya Mizuno
- 2007 · Kamen Rider: THE NEXT as Scissors Jaguar
- 2007 · Switching – Goodbye Me as Kazumi's Father
- 2007 · How to Become Myself as Koji Ueshima
- 2007 · Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as
- 2007 · Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Barber Owner
- 2007 · Cain's Descendant as
- 2007 · Haken no Hinkaku as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Prisoners as Self
- 2006 · SOUL TRAIN as
- 2006 · Love Letter So-renka as Yui's father
- 2006 · Gamera the Brave as Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
- 2006 · Black Night as Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
- 2006 · Haru, Bânîzu de as
- 2005 · Strange Circus as Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
- 2005 · スクールデイズ as
- 2005 · Wolf Girl as
- 2005 · Spring Snow as
- 2005 · Who's Camus Anyway? as Oyama
- 2004 · Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World as Miho's Father
- 2004 · 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」 as
- 2004 · Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel as
- 2004 · Kamachi as Sensei Komori
- 2004 · L'amant as A
- 2004 · Mask de 41 as Tadao Kuramochi
- 2003 · Vibrator as Cop
- 2003 · A Snake of June as Editor-in-Chief
- 2003 · Cop Festival: New Beginning as
- 2003 · Owl as
- 2002 · Picaresque as
- 2002 · MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE as
- 2002 · The Private Detective Mike as
- 2002 · Doing Time as Tanabe
- 2002 · Bastoni: The Stick Handlers as Matsunaga
- 2002 · Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love as
- 2001 · My Blood Bone as
- 2001 · Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE I as
- 2001 · man-hole as
- 2001 · Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams as
- 2000 · Tokyo Trash Baby as
- 2000 · Oshikiri as
- 2000 · Senrigan as
- 2000 · Monday as Mitsuhiko Shima
- 2000 · PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜 as 語り
- 1999 · Taboo as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- 1999 · White-Collar Worker Kintaro as Shibamata
- 1999 · Gemini as Middle-aged Patient
- 1999 · Ley Lines as Chan
- 1999 · Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris as Doctor
- 1998 · Bullet Ballet as Policeman
- 1998 · Three Businessmen as Noodle Shop Waiter
- 1998 · Tomie as Detective Harada
- 1998 · Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2 as Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
- 1998 · You Alone Can't See as Kimura
- 1998 · Unlucky Monkey as Miyata
- 1998 · Andromedia as Goda
- 1998 · Sleepless Town as Kenji Tozawa
- 1998 · Dr. Akagi as Nosaka
- 1998 · Sada as Kin
- 1998 · I Don't Have a Grave! as Takagi Noboru
- 1997 · Tokyo Fair Weather as
- 1997 · Lie Lie Lie as Party Guest
- 1997 · Postman Blues as Profiler
- 1997 · Rainy Dog as The Pursuer
- 1997 · The Towers of Musahino Line as
- 1997 · Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu as Self
- 1997 · Time Leap as
- 1997 · The Eel as Eiji Dojima
- 1997 · The Defender as Edge
- 1997 · Kawaki no machi as
- 1996 · Dangan Runner as Shinkichi Yasuda
- 1996 · Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku as Kikura
- 1996 · San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku as
- 1996 · Fudoh: The New Generation as Dealer being shot in toilet
- 1996 · Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge as Shôsetsu Yui
- 1996 · Swallowtail Butterfly as Honda
- 1996 · Gamera 2: Attack of Legion as Ishida
- 1996 · Love Hotel Night 2 as
- 1996 · Midori as
- 1996 · A Fragile Heart as
- 1995 · Tokyo Fist as Tattoo Artist
- 1995 · Goodbye for Tomorrow as Tetsu Sasayama
- 1995 · Shinjuku Triad Society as Wang
- 1995 · Ring as Jotaro Nagao
- 1995 · Super-Coming as
- 1995 · Angel's Share as
- 1995 · The Young Blood Typhoon as
- 1995 · Kamikaze Taxi as Chaplin
- 1995 · Love Letter as Female Itsuki's Father
- 1995 · Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground as Detective Kono
- 1995 · Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko as
- 1995 · Forever with You as
- 1994 · Pu as
- 1994 · A New Love in Tokyo as Man with a Knife
- 1994 · Level as
- 1994 · N45゜ as Detective
- 1994 · Undo as Psychiatrist
- 1994 · Angel Dust as Endo
- 1994 · At the Mercy of the Darkness as
- 1994 · Evil Dream as
- 1993 · A Night in Nude as Kenzo
- 1993 · Tokyo Blood as
- 1993 · Maohgai as
- 1993 · The Tomb & the Divorce as Tokio
- 1993 · Kuma-chan as
- 1993 · My Beloved Ultraseven as Takano
- 1993 · Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers as
- 1992 · All Night Long as Airline Manager
- 1992 · Kirai ja nai yo 2 as
- 1992 · Tetsuo II: Body Hammer as Taniguchi Tomoo
- 1992 · New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2 as
- 1992 · New Joyful Embarrassing Story as
- 1991 · New Pink Curtain as
- 1991 · One-Room Story as
- 1991 · I Hate You... Not as
- 1991 · Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou as
- 1990 · Love of Sawako as Ichiro Tanaka
- 1990 · Psychic Theater Mr. Maric's Super Magic V as
- 1990 · Heartbreak Angels as
- 1989 · Arietta as Red Saturn Club Manager
- 1989 · Tetsuo: The Iron Man as Salaryman
- 1989 · Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame as
- 1988 · Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love as
- 1987 · The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo as Hijikata
- 1986 · The Phantom of Regular Size as The Man
- 1984 · More and More Love as
- 1982 · Zokubutsu zukan as
- 1971 · Kamen Rider as Amadum



