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 Miikes 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
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