Tomorowo Taguchi
Acting • Born 1957-11-30
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
267 credits
MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
Movie • 2002
My Blood Bone
Movie • 2001
Strange Circus
Movie • 2005
Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
The Eel
Movie • 1997
Eiji Dojima
Angel Dust
Movie • 1994
Endo
Gemini
Movie • 1999
Middle-aged Patient
Spirited Away: Live on Stage
Movie • 2023
鍋爐爺爺
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Movie • 2000
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Movie • 2007
Barber Owner
Brass Knuckle Boys
Movie • 2009
Jimmy
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Movie • 1989
Salaryman
Full Metal Yakuza
Movie • 1997
Genpaku Hiraga
Tokyo Fist
Movie • 1995
Tattoo Artist
Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
Movie • 1989
Shinjuku Triad Society
Movie • 1995
Wang
Cop Festival: New Beginning
Movie • 2003
Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu
Movie • 1997
Self
Gamera the Brave
Movie • 2006
Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
Tomie
Movie • 1998
Detective Harada
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Movie • 2000
Love Hotel Night 2
Movie • 1996
Drive
Movie • 2002
Sway
Movie • 2006
Judge
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Movie • 1992
Taniguchi Tomoo
Love of Sawako
Movie • 1990
Ichiro Tanaka
Dr. Akagi
Movie • 1998
Nosaka
Lie Lie Lie
Movie • 1997
Party Guest
Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon
Movie • 1996
Shôsetsu Yui
Vibrator
Movie • 2003
Cop
Oshikiri
Movie • 2000
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Movie • 1987
Hijikata
Prostitution Gang
Movie • 1997
Until the Lights Come Back
Movie • 2005
Ryotaro Saeki
Who's Camus Anyway?
Movie • 2005
Oyama
Gantz: Perfect Answer
Movie • 2011
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
Movie • 1995
Primary Colour High School Girl Pink Picture Book
Movie • 1990
The Young Blood Typhoon
Movie • 1995
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Movie • 1999
Shibamata
The Defender
Movie • 1997
Edge
How to Become Myself
Movie • 2007
Koji Ueshima
Kamachi
Movie • 2004
Sensei Komori
Black Night
Movie • 2006
Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
Undo
Movie • 1994
Psychiatrist
A Man with Style
Movie • 2011
Sanada
The Phantom of Regular Size
Movie • 1986
The Man
Unlucky Monkey
Movie • 1998
Miyata
Wandering Brain
Movie • 1993
Doing Time
Movie • 2002
Tanabe
Dangan Runner
Movie • 1996
Shinkichi Yasuda
A New Love in Tokyo
Movie • 1994
Man with a Knife
Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Movie • 1996
Kikura
My Little Monster
Movie • 2018
Shizuku's Father
Heartbreak Angels
Movie • 1990
Half End
Movie • 2018
Odd Final
Movie • 2018
Mask de 41
Movie • 2004
Tadao Kuramochi
The Samurai That Night
Movie • 2012
Nobuo Hoshi
SOUL TRAIN
Movie • 2006
River
Movie • 2011
Maid cafe owner
The Drudgery Train
Movie • 2012
Secondhand Bookstore Manager
Prisoner/Terrorist
Movie • 2007
M
#HandballStrive
Movie • 2020
Masashi
Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge
Movie • 1996
Shôsetsu Yui
Super-Coming
Movie • 1995
Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
Movie • 1993
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Movie • 1999
Doctor
Love Life
Movie • 2022
Makoto Ōsawa
Detective in the Bar 2
Movie • 2013
Matsuo
Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2
Movie • 2024
Yasunori Okatome
Owl
Movie • 2003
Too Young To Die!
Movie • 2016
Hato
Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
Movie • 1993
Kuma-chan
Movie • 1993
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Movie • 2008
Kazuya Mizuno
The Line
Movie • 1999
Monsterz
Movie • 2014
Mr. Kumoi
Kamen Rider: THE NEXT
Movie • 2007
Scissors Jaguar
I Don't Have a Grave!
Movie • 1998
Takagi Noboru
You've Got A Friend
Movie • 2022
Jorogumo
Movie • 2000
Kawaki no machi
Movie • 1997
YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Fried Dragon Fish
Movie • 1993
Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
Barber's Sorrow
Movie • 2002
L'amant
Movie • 2004
A
Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World
Movie • 2004
Miho's Father
Aiki
Movie • 2002
Hydra
Movie • 2019
Teru Nakaya
The Egoists
Movie • 2011
Shinji Ninomiya
Tokyo Fair Weather
Movie • 1997
Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
Movie • 1993
Tadon and Chikuwa
Movie • 1998
Nobody's Perfect
Movie • 2013
You Alone Can't See
Movie • 1998
Kimura
N45゜
Movie • 1994
Detective
The Many Faces of Ito
Movie • 2018
Spring Snow
Movie • 2005
Swallowtail Butterfly
Movie • 1996
Honda
Kamikaze Taxi
Movie • 1995
Chaplin
Angel's Share
Movie • 1995
A Road Stained Crimson
Movie • 2012
Midori
Movie • 1996
New Pink Curtain
Movie • 1991
The Things We Liked
Movie • 1997
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Movie • 2007
Monday
Movie • 2000
Mitsuhiko Shima
Andromedia
Movie • 1998
Goda
Postman Blues
Movie • 1997
Profiler
Shinigami no Yaiba
Movie • 2010
It's Only Talk
Movie • 2006
K
Kabukicho Love Hotel
Movie • 2014
Masashi Kubota
名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編
Movie • 2021
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Movie • 2007
a stuff of Toraoh
Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Movie • 2000
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Movie • 2007
Yuji Miyoshi
M
Movie • 2006
Pimp
Time Leap
Movie • 1997
Tokyo Trash Baby
Movie • 2000
New Joyful Embarrassing Story
Movie • 1992
New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
Movie • 1992
April Bride
Movie • 2009
Okuno
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Movie • 2013
Saito
AIBOU: X-DAY
Movie • 2013
Tokyo Blood
Movie • 1993
More and More Love
Movie • 1984
Chivalrous Sinking
Movie • 2011
City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution
Movie • 2023
City of Desire No.2 - The Dark Fixer
Movie • 2023
City of Desire No. 4 Outrageous and Dirty Social Network Money
Movie • 2023
City of Desire No.3 - The Lizard of Minami
Movie • 2023
Disregarded People
Movie • 2013
President Maruyoshi
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
Movie • 2002
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE I
Movie • 2001
Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
Movie • 2002
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
Movie • 2003
Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
Movie • 2005
Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
Movie • 2004
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2
Movie • 1998
Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
A Night in Nude
Movie • 1993
Kenzo
リムジン
Movie • 2023
Prisoners
Movie • 2006
Self
Another Gantz
Movie • 2011
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Nozokiya
Movie • 1995
Gantz
Movie • 2010
Yoshikazu Suzuki
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Movie • 2009
Shinto Priest
A Drop of the Grapevine
Movie • 2014
Asahi
Aimitagai
Movie • 2024
Three Businessmen
Movie • 1998
Noodle Shop Waiter
Artist of Fasting
Movie • 2016
Narration (voice)
Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love
Movie • 1988
A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Movie • 1998
Ame Onna
Movie • 2016
Rika's father
Sleepless Town
Movie • 1998
Kenji Tozawa
Rose Color's Buko
Movie • 2014
Gangster
A Snake of June
Movie • 2003
Editor-in-Chief
Neko Atsume House
Movie • 2017
Asakusa
Policeman and Me
Movie • 2017
Shuichi Yamamoto
Forever with You
Movie • 1995
The Night the Angel Turned Away
Movie • 1999
Tawada
Evil Dream
Movie • 1994
Rainy Dog
Movie • 1997
The Pursuer
Love Letter So-renka
Movie • 2006
Yui's father
Taboo
Movie • 1999
Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
The Last Shot in the Bar
Movie • 2017
Matsuo
Ley Lines
Movie • 1999
Chan
Dead or Alive
Movie • 1999
Afro Thug
Chinpira
Movie • 2000
Maohgai
Movie • 1993
The Tomb & the Divorce
Movie • 1993
Tokio
Bullet Ballet
Movie • 1998
Policeman
RoomMate
Movie • 2013
Life in Overtime
Movie • 2018
Toshihiko Aoyama
One-Room Story
Movie • 1991
A Blue Automobile
Movie • 2004
Record Store Boss
Sadistic Song
Movie • 1996
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
Movie • 1995
Yusuke's Father
The Vancouver Asahi
Movie • 2014
Tadaaki Matsuda
September 11
Movie • 2002
Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Parallel World Love Story
Movie • 2019
Sudo
Ignatius
Movie • 1996
1+1=11
Movie • 2012
Kamome
Movie • 2000
Akitoshi Fukuma
Cain's Descendant
Movie • 2007
The Blood of Wolves
Movie • 2018
Hideo Doi
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
Movie • 2006
A Fragile Heart
Movie • 1996
Wolf Girl
Movie • 2005
Senrigan
Movie • 2000
Room Laundering
Movie • 2018
Saizen
All Night Long
Movie • 1992
Airline Manager
Zokubutsu zukan
Movie • 1982
Switching – Goodbye Me
Movie • 2007
Kazumi's Father
The Witness
Movie • 2019
Yuichi Kimura
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
Movie • 2005
Pu
Movie • 1994
Fancy
Movie • 2020
Ring
Movie • 1995
Jotaro Nagao
Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
Movie • 2002
Matsunaga
Arietta
Movie • 1989
Red Saturn Club Manager
Sada
Movie • 1998
Kin
Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
Movie • 1995
Detective Kono
Ladies Max
Movie • 1996
Violence Voyager
Movie • 2018
Koike
Piecing Me Back Together
Movie • 2010
Keisuke Ogi
All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter
Movie • 1996
Kawasaki
Love Letter
Movie • 1995
Female Itsuki's Father
Fukushima 50
Movie • 2020
Kazuhiko Fukuhara
Scorpion: Double Venom
Movie • 1998
Midnight Swan
Movie • 2020
Mama Yoko
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Movie • 1996
Ishida
Goodbye for Tomorrow
Movie • 1995
Tetsu Sasayama
At the Mercy of the Darkness
Movie • 1994
man-hole
Movie • 2001
Ain't No Tomorrows
Movie • 2008
Yoshida
Household X
Movie • 2010
Kenichi Hashimoto
Fly with the Gold
Movie • 2012
Yamagishi
Robinson's Garden
Movie • 1987
Man wrestling with restaurant table
The Door into Summer
Movie • 2021
Professor Toi
I Hate You... Not
Movie • 1991
Kirai ja nai yo 2
Movie • 1992
The Towers of Musahino Line
Movie • 1997
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Movie • 2021
Haru, Bânîzu de
Movie • 2006
Climber's High
Movie • 2008
Enji Kishi
Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou
Movie • 1991
Sea of Madness
Movie • 2007
Otokotachi no uta
Movie • 2008
Psychic Theater Mr. Maric's Super Magic V
Movie • 1990
Welcome to the Village
Movie • 2025
ひと夏の隣人
Movie • 2016
鈴木次郎
Fudoh: The New Generation
Movie • 1996
Dealer being shot in toilet
City of Desire No. 5 Drifting Dotonbori Kids
Movie • 2024
杉山高志
City of Desire No. 6 Trans Honor
Movie • 2024
Unreachable
Movie • 2025
Jiro Kayama
My Beloved Ultraseven
Movie • 1993
Takano
Level
Movie • 1994
スクールデイズ
Movie • 2005
Dekotora Gaiden: A Man’s Life, a Road of Dreams
Movie • 2001
Picaresque
Movie • 2002
Black Money
Movie • 1994
PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜
TV • 2000
語り
Botanical Life of Varendar
TV • 2014
Verandar
大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
TV • 2004
The Private Detective Mike
TV • 2002
The Long Goodbye
TV • 2014
Haneoka
Kamen Rider
TV • 1971
Amadum
Sanctuary
TV • 2023
吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？
TV • 2016
Mikuriya Saburo
The Game of Business Card
TV • 2017
Katayama Shoji
QP
TV • 2011
Hiko
Midnight Diner
TV • 2009
Lyricist
Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare
TV • 2017
Himself
In This Corner of the World
TV • 2018
Entaro Hojo
House of Ninjas
TV • 2024
Jin Hamashima
Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
TV • 2020
Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
TV • 2020
Happy Go Lucky
TV • 2018
In Hand
TV • 2019
Hiroshi Yamazaki
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
TV • 2021
新プロジェクトX〜挑戦者たち〜
TV • 2024
Hibana: Spark
TV • 2016
The Pride of the Temp
TV • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
TV • 2020
Uekusa Chiaki
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
TV • 1996
Byplayers: What If Supporting Actors Lived On a Deserted Island for a TV Tokyo Morning Drama?
TV
Human Specimens
TV • 2025
Man walking his dog