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'''Kiyotaka Taguchi''' {{Nihongo|田口 清隆|Taguchi Kiyotaka}} is a [[Japan]]ese film and television director. He is best known as the head director of two recent seasons in the [[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Series|Ultra series]], ''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' and ''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb (series)|Ultraman Orb]]'', as well as their respective films. His action scenes often make use of complex long takes seldom seen elsewhere in the [[tokusatsu]] genre.
'''Kiyotaka Taguchi''' {{Nihongo|田口清隆|Taguchi Kiyotaka}} is a [[Japan]]ese film and television director. He is best known as the head director of two recent seasons in the [[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Series|Ultra Series]], ''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' and ''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb (series)|Ultraman Orb]]'', as well as their respective films. His action scenes often make use of complex long takes seldom seen elsewhere in the [[tokusatsu]] genre.
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==Selected filmography==
==Selected filmography==
===2nd assistant director of special effects===
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megaguirus]]'' (2000) [with Mitsuru Shimada, Hiroaki Hishiki]
*''[[Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack]]'' (2001) [with Hiroshi Okamoto, Noritsugu Yoshida]
===2nd assistant director===
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Cosmos (series)|Ultraman Cosmos]]'' (TV 2001-2002) [with Hideki Oka, Ryoichi Ito, Masayoshi Takesue, Tomomi Suzuki, Terumasa Arakawa]
===Assistant special effects art director===
*''[[Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla]]'' (2002) [with Isao Takahashi, Masato Inatsuki, Yoshiyuki Kasuga, Hidefumi Onishi, Kohei Sugiyama, Yuri Sugano]
*''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'' (2004) [with Isao Takahashi, Yumiko Arakawa, Kohei Sugiyama, Yuki Kajimasa, Akio Fukushima, Yuri Sugano, Norihisa Harashima, Hidefumi Onishi, Shohei Azehara, Tatsuhito Shiraita]
===Director===
===Director===
*''G'' (2008) [short]
*''G'' (2008) [short]
*''[[Geharha: The Dark and Long Hair Monster]]'' (2009) [short]
*''[[Geharha: The Dark and Long Hair Monster]]'' (2009) [short]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Zone|Ultra Zone]]'' (TV 2011) [episodes 1-8]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Neo Ultra Q|Neo Ultra Q]]'' (TV 2013) [episodes 2, 6, and 9]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Neo Ultra Q|Neo Ultra Q]]'' (TV 2013) [episodes 2, 6, 9]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Ginga S|Ultraman Ginga S]]'' (TV 2014) [episodes 6-8 and 11-12]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Operation: Mystery#Sequels|Operation: Mystery - Mystery File]]'' (TV 2013) [episode 1]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Ginga S|Ultraman Ginga S]]'' (TV 2014) [episodes 6-8, 11-12]
*''Fool Japan: The ABCs of Tetsudon'' (2015) [segment: "Zone"]
*''Fool Japan: The ABCs of Tetsudon'' (2015) [segment: "Zone"]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' (TV 2015) [episodes 1, 15-16, 21-22]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' (TV 2015) [episodes 1, 15-16, and 21-22]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X The Movie: Here Comes! Our Ultraman|Ultraman X The Movie]]'' (2016)
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X The Movie: Here Comes! Our Ultraman|Ultraman X The Movie]]'' (2016)
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb (series)|Ultraman Orb]]'' (TV 2016) [episodes 1-3, 11-12, 24-25]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb (series)|Ultraman Orb]]'' (TV 2016) [episodes 1-3, 11-12, and 24-25]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!|Ultraman Orb The Movie]]'' (2017)
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!|Ultraman Orb The Movie]]'' (2017)
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Geed (series)|Ultraman Geed]]'' (TV 2017) [episodes 11-12]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Geed (series)|Ultraman Geed]]'' (TV 2017) [episodes 11-12]
*''Tetsudon Kaiju Dream Match'' (2017) [segment: "Female Weapon 701"]
*''Tetsudon Kaiju Dream Match'' (2017) [segment: "Female Weapon 701"]
*''Ultraman Zero VR'' (2017) [short]
*''Ultraman Zero VR'' (2017) [short]
*''Ultra Fight VR'' (2017) [short]
*''Return of Izenborg'' (2018)
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman R/B|Ultraman R/B]]'' (TV 2018) [episodes 4-5]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman R/B|Ultraman R/B]]'' (TV 2018) [episodes 4-5]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Taiga (series)|Ultraman Taiga]]'' (TV 2019) [episodes 4-6]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Taiga (series)|Ultraman Taiga]]'' (TV 2019) [episode 4]
===Director of special effects===
===Special Effects===
*''MM9'' (TV 2010) [episodes 1-3]
*''[[Godzilla vs. Megaguirus]]'' (2000) - Assistant special effects director
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Zone|Ultra Zone]]'' (TV 2011) [unknown number of episodes]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact|Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact]]'' (2001) - Assistant special effects director
*''Jellyfish Eyes'' (2013)
*''[[Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack]]'' (2001) - Assistant special effects director
*''Love & Peace'' (2015)
*''[[Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla]]'' (2002) - Special effects art assistant, digital effects
*"Life of Planet" (2017) [music video]
*''[[Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.]]'' (2003) - Digital effects
===Screenwriter===
*''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'' (2004) - Assistant art director, digital composites
*''MM9'' (TV 2010) [episodes 5-9; with [[Shinji Higuchi]], [[Kazunori Ito]]]
*''[[Gamera the Brave]]'' (2006) - Assistant special effects director
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Zone|Ultra Zone]]'' (TV 2011) [episodes 8-11, 19-22; with Takeshi Nakazawa]
*''MM9'' (TV 2010) - Special effects supervisor [episodes 1-3]
===Miscellaneous===
*''Jellyfish Eyes'' (2013) - Special effects supervisor
*''[[Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla]]'' (2002) - Digital effects [with Teruhisa Nemoto, Nobuhiro Sato, Shuichi Kokumai, Yoshinobu Yanagihara, Shigeru Ueda, Naoki Yoshioka, Makoto Fujimoto, Masako Adachi, Mariko Takatsuka, Takeshi Minami, Naoyasu Yutaka, Kazuhide Yoshikawa, Tomoya Nomura, Hiroko Ando, Daisuke Endo, Shinji Noda, Masako Hagiwara, Masato Fujima, Tsubasa Kawabata, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Terui, Taeko Kamimura]
*''Love & Peace'' (2015) - Special effects supervisor
*''[[Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.]]'' (2003) - Digital effects [with Teruhisa Nemoto, Ayako Watabe, Yoshitaka Kitano, Masako Adachi, Mariko Sugawara, Masaki Sasae, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Terui, Hideho Kikuchi, Masashi Toida, Sayo Shimojo]
*"Mayday: 少年他的奇幻漂流" (2017) - Director of special effects [music video]
*''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'' (2004) - Digital compositing [with Tsuyoshi Kazuno, Hidenobu Sasakura, Mariko Sugawara, Shuichi Kokumai, Yukiho Kawashima, Kenta Abe, Koichi Saito, Ritsuaki Kato, Reiko Takamatsu, Jun Nakamura, Ayako Watabe, Naofumi Mishina, Yoshitaka Maeda, Takeshi Hayashi, Shinji Ohagi, Tomonori Watanabe, Takahiro Yoshida, Yoshimichi Yoshida, Shinichi Tsukamoto, Yoshimasa Hasegawa, Taiko Kaneyama, Mie Kato, Kiyoshi Matsushima, Taeko Kamimura, Jun Kurihara]
*''Return of Izenborg'' (2018) - Director of special effects
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Mirrorman REFLEX (film)|Mirrorman REFLEX]]'' (2006) - Effect animation
*''[[Gamera the Brave]]'' (2006) - 2D digital [with Mariko Sugawara, Masaki Sasae, Yukiho Kawashima, Kurato Kikuchi]
*''[[Sinking of Japan]]'' (2006) - Compositing [with Naoyasu Yutaka, Yukiho Kawashima]
*''[[Geharha: The Dark and Long Hair Monster]]'' (2009) - Compositing [with Mariko Sugawara, Isao Morohoshi]
*''[[Death Kappa (film)|Death Kappa]]'' (2010) - Produced in association
*''[[Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo]]'' (2012) - Assistant art director
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Neo Ultra Q|Neo Ultra Q]]'' (TV 2013) - Editor / visual effects / character design
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' (TV 2015) - Character design
*''[[Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1]]'' (2015) - 3DCG & compositing
*''[[Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2]]'' (2015) - 3DCG & compositing
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!|Ultraman Orb The Movie]]'' (2017) - Storyboards
===Actor===
===Actor===
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultra Zone|Ultra Zone]]'' (TV 2011) as Man in crowd [episode 21]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!|Ultraman Orb The Movie]]'' (2017) as Kaiju-Obsessed Pedestrian
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman X (series)|Ultraman X]]'' (TV 2015) as Voice of telecom [episode 15] / police officer taking photographs [voice; episode 16]
*''[[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!|Ultraman Orb The Movie]]'' (2017) as Kaiju-obsessed pedestrian
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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Revision as of 12:56, 14 February 2020

Kiyotaka Taguchi
Kiyotaka Taguchi
Born May 7, 1980
Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan
First work Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
Notable work Geharha: The Dark and Long Hair Monster (2009)
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Kiyotaka Taguchi (田口清隆,   Taguchi Kiyotaka) is a Japanese film and television director. He is best known as the head director of two recent seasons in the Ultra Series, Ultraman X and Ultraman Orb, as well as their respective films. His action scenes often make use of complex long takes seldom seen elsewhere in the tokusatsu genre.

Selected filmography

Director

Special Effects

Actor

Gallery

  • Taguchi on the set of Neo Ultra Q

    Taguchi on the set of Neo Ultra Q

  • Taguchi on the set of Ultraman X

    Taguchi on the set of Ultraman X

  • Taguchi with Ultraman X at the 2015 International Tokyo Toy Show

    Taguchi with Ultraman X at the 2015 International Tokyo Toy Show

Videos

2012 SciFi Japan TV interview
Taguchi guides three children through the making of their own kaiju film
The music video for Mayday's "少年他的奇幻漂流"

External links

Staff members
 
Directors
Drama directors
Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Koji Hashimoto • Kunio Miyoshi • Masaaki Hisamatsu • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeshi Yagi • Takuya Uenishi • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Willis O'Brien • Yoshikazu Ishii • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yusuke Ishida
Effects directors
Assistant directors
 
Artists
Production designers
Illustrators
Propmakers

 
 
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