FrameThrower · Actors · Tomorowo Taguchi
Tomorowo Taguchi
4 films · 231 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1989–2012
Born 30 November 1957 · Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Tomorowo Taguchi 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.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 231 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tomorowo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Tomorowo takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
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