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
Gantz
(2010)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Fukushima 50
(2020)
Kazuhiko Fukuhara
Gantz: Perfect Answer
(2011)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Tokyo Fist
(1995)
Tattoo Artist
Love Letter
(1995)
Female Itsuki's Father
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
(1996)
Ishida
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
(1989)
Salaryman
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
(1999)
Doctor
Another Gantz
(2011)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
The Door into Summer
(2021)
Professor Toi
Love Life
(2022)
Makoto Osawa
Strange Circus
(2005)
Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
Gemini
(1999)
Middle-aged Patient
A New Love in Tokyo
(1994)
Man with a Knife
Taboo
(1999)
Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
(2000)
Full Filmography
Acting
Zokubutsu zukan
(1982)
More and More Love
(1984)
The Phantom of Regular Size
(1986)
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
(1987)
Hijikata
Robinson's Garden
(1987)
Man wrestling with restaurant table
Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
(1988)
Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love
(1988)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
(1989)
Salaryman
Arietta
(1989)
Red Saturn Club Manager
Love of Sawako
(1990)
Ichiro Tanaka
Heartbreak Angels
(1990)
Primary Colour High School Girl Pink Picture Book
(1990)
One-Room Story
(1991)
I Hate You... Not
(1991)
Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou
(1991)
New Pink Curtain
(1991)
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
(1992)
Taniguchi Tomoo
All Night Long
(1992)
Airline Manager
Kirai ja nai yo 2
(1992)
New Joyful Embarrassing Story
(1992)
New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
(1992)
Fried Dragon Fish
(1993)
Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
Tokyo Blood
(1993)
A Night in Nude
(1993)
Kenzo
The Tomb & the Divorce
(1993)
Tokio
Maohgai
(1993)
Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
(1993)
Wandering Brain
(1993)
Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
(1993)
Kuma-chan
(1993)
Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
(1993)
Angel Dust
(1994)
Endo
Undo
(1994)
Psychiatrist
A New Love in Tokyo
(1994)
Man with a Knife
Evil Dream
(1994)
Pu
(1994)
Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
(1994)
Detective Kono
At the Mercy of the Darkness
(1994)
Level
(1994)
N45゜
(1994)
Detective
Tokyo Fist
(1995)
Tattoo Artist
Shinjuku Triad Society
(1995)
Wang
Angel's Share
(1995)
Kamikaze Taxi
(1995)
Chaplin
Forever with You
(1995)
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
(1995)
Yusuke's Father
Ring
(1995)
Jotaro Nagao
Love Letter
(1995)
Female Itsuki's Father
Goodbye for Tomorrow
(1995)
Tetsu Sasayama
The Young Blood Typhoon
(1995)
Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
(1995)
Super-Coming
(1995)
Nozokiya
(1995)
Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon
(1996)
Shôsetsu Yui
Dangan Runner
(1996)
Yasuda
Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge
(1996)
Shôsetsu Yui
Swallowtail Butterfly
(1996)
Honda
Midori
(1996)
Sadistic Song
(1996)
Ignatius
(1996)
A Fragile Heart
(1996)
Ladies Max
(1996)
All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter
(1996)
Kawasaki
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
(1996)
Ishida
Love Hotel Night 2
(1996)
Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
(1996)
Kikura
The Eel
(1997)
Eiji Dojima
Full Metal Yakuza
(1997)
Genpaku Hiraga
Tokyo Fair Weather
(1997)
Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
(1997)
Postman Blues
(1997)
Profiler
Rainy Dog
(1997)
The Pursuer
The Towers of Musahino Line
(1997)
Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu
(1997)
Self
Kawaki no machi
(1997)
Lie Lie Lie
(1997)
Party Guest
Prostitution Gang
(1997)
The Defender
(1997)
Edge
Time Leap
(1997)
Tomie
(1998)
Detective Harada
Dr. Akagi
(1998)
Nosaka
Unlucky Monkey
(1998)
Miyata
Sleepless Town
(1998)
Kenji Tozawa
Tadon and Chikuwa
(1998)
Andromedia
(1998)
Goda
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2
(1998)
Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
Three Businessmen
(1998)
Noodle Shop Waiter
A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
(1998)
Bullet Ballet
(1998)
Policeman
Sada
(1998)
Kin
Scorpion: Double Venom
(1998)
Ohaka ga nai!
(1998)
Takagi Noboru
Kiriko no fûkei
(1998)
Kimura
Gemini
(1999)
Middle-aged Patient
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
(1999)
Shibamata
The Night the Angel Turned Away
(1999)
Tawada
Taboo
(1999)
Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
Ley Lines
(1999)
Chan
Dead or Alive
(1999)
Afro Thug
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
(1999)
Doctor
The Line
(1999)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
(2000)
Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
(2000)
Tokyo Trash Baby
(2000)
Chinpira
(2000)
Kamome
(2000)
Akitoshi Fukuma
Senrigan
(2000)
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
(2000)
Oshikiri
(2000)
Jorogumo
(2000)
Monday
(2000)
Mitsuhiko Shima
man-hole
(2001)
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE I
(2001)
My Blood Bone
(2001)
Drive
(2002)
Doing Time
(2002)
Tanabe
Aiki
(2002)
Barber's Sorrow
(2002)
11'09''01 September 11
(2002)
Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
(2002)
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
(2002)
Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
(2002)
MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
(2002)
Vibrator
(2003)
Cop
Owl
(2003)
A Snake of June
(2003)
Editor-in-Chief
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
(2003)
Cop Festival: New Beginning
(2003)
Mask de 41
(2004)
Tadao Kuramochi
L'amant
(2004)
A
Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World
(2004)
Miho's father
A Blue Automobile
(2004)
Record Store Boss
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
(2004)
Kamachi
(2004)
Sensei Komori
Strange Circus
(2005)
Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
Until the Lights Come Back
(2005)
Ryotaro Saeki
Spring Snow
(2005)
Wolf Girl
(2005)
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
(2005)
Who's Camus Anyway?
(2005)
Oyama
Young Thugs: Murray Tiger
(2005)
Gamera the Brave
(2006)
Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
Sway
(2006)
Judge
Black Night
(2006)
Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
It's Only Talk
(2006)
K
M
(2006)
Pimp
Love Letter So-renka
(2006)
Yui's father
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
(2006)
Haru, Bânîzu de
(2006)
Prisoners
(2006)
Self
SOUL TRAIN ソウルトレイン
(2006)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
(2007)
Barber Owner
How to Become Myself
(2007)
Koji Ueshima
Prisoner/Terrorist
(2007)
M
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
(2007)
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
(2007)
Yuji Miyoshi
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
(2007)
a stuff of Toraoh
Cain's Descendant
(2007)
Switching - Goodbye Me
(2007)
Kazumi's Father
Sea of Madness
(2007)
Kamen Rider: The Next
(2007)
Scissors Jaguar
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
(2008)
Kazuya Mizuno
Ain't No Tomorrows
(2008)
Yoshida
Climber's High
(2008)
Enji Kishi
Otokotachi no uta
(2008)
Brass Knuckle Boys
(2009)
Jimmy
April Bride
(2009)
Okuno
Gehara: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
(2009)
Shinto Priest
Gantz
(2010)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Piecing Me Back Together
(2010)
Keisuke Ogi
Household X
(2010)
Kenichi Hashimoto
Shinigami no Yaiba
(2010)
Gantz: Perfect Answer
(2011)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
A Man with Style
(2011)
Sanada
River
(2011)
Maid cafe owner
The Egoists
(2011)
Shinji Ninomiya
Another Gantz
(2011)
Yoshikazu Suzuki
YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex
(2011)
Narrator (voice)
Chivalrous Sinking
(2011)
The Drudgery Train
(2012)
Secondhand Bookstore Manager
A Road Stained Crimson
(2012)
The Samurai That Night
(2012)
Nobuo Hoshi
1+1=11
(2012)
Fly with the Gold
(2012)
Yamagishi
Detective in the Bar 2
(2013)
Matsuo
Nobody's Perfect
(2013)
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
(2013)
Saito
AIBOU: X-DAY
(2013)
Disregarded People
(2013)
President Maruyoshi
RoomMate
(2013)
Kabukicho Love Hotel
(2014)
Masashi Kubota
Monsterz
(2014)
Mr. Kumoi
A Drop of the Grapevine
(2014)
Rose Color's Buko
(2014)
Gangster
The Vancouver Asahi
(2014)
Tadaaki Matsuda
Artist of Fasting
(2016)
Narration (voice)
Ame Onna
(2016)
Rika's father
Too Young To Die!
(2016)
Hato
Neko Atsume House
(2017)
Asakusa
Policeman and Me
(2017)
Shuichi Yamamoto
The Last Shot in the Bar
(2017)
Matsuo
Life in Overtime
(2018)
Toshihiko Aoyama
The Blood of Wolves
(2018)
Hideo Doi
Room Laundering
(2018)
Saizen
Violence Voyager
(2018)
Koike
My Little Monster
(2018)
Shizuku's Father
The Many Faces of Ito: The Movie
(2018)
Half End
(2018)
Odd Final
(2018)
Parallel World Love Story
(2019)
Sudo
The Witness
(2019)
Yuichi Kimura
HYDRA
(2019)
Teru Nakaya
Fancy
(2020)
Fukushima 50
(2020)
Kazuhiko Fukuhara
Midnight Swan
(2020)
Mama Yoko
#HandballStrive
(2020)
Masashi
The Door into Summer
(2021)
Professor Toi
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
(2021)
名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編
(2021)
Love Life
(2022)
Makoto Osawa
You've Got A Friend
(2022)
Spirited Away: Live on Stage
(2023)
Kamaji
City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution
(2023)
City of Desire No.2 - The Dark Fixer
(2023)
City of Desire No.3 - The Lizard of Minami
(2023)
City of Desire No. 4 Outrageous and Dirty Social Network Money
(2023)
リムジン
(2023)
Dare to Stop Us 2
(2024)
Directing
Writing