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Kiyotaka Taguchi (田口 清隆 is a Taguchi Kiyotaka)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
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
- 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
- G (2008) [short]
- Geharha: The Dark and Long Hair Monster (2009) [short]
- Ultra Zone (TV 2011) [episodes 1-8]
- Neo Ultra Q (TV 2013) [episodes 2, 6, 9]
- Operation: Mystery - Mystery File (TV 2013) [episode 1]
- Ultraman Ginga S (TV 2014) [episodes 6-8, 11-12]
- Fool Japan: The ABCs of Tetsudon (2015) [segment: "Zone"]
- Ultraman X (TV 2015) [episodes 1, 15-16, 21-22]
- Ultraman X The Movie (2016)
- Ultraman Orb (TV 2016) [episodes 1-3, 11-12, 24-25]
- Ultraman Orb The Movie (2017)
- Ultraman Geed (TV 2017) [episodes 11-12]
- Tetsudon Kaiju Dream Match (2017) [segment: "Female Weapon 701"]
- Ultraman Zero VR (2017) [short]
- Ultra Fight VR (2017) [short]
- Return of Izenborg (2018)
- Ultraman R/B (TV 2018) [episodes 4-5]
- Ultraman Taiga (TV 2019) [episodes 4-6]
Director of special effects
- MM9 (TV 2010) [episodes 1-3]
- Ultra Zone (TV 2011) [unknown number of episodes]
- Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
- Love & Peace (2015)
- "Life of Planet" (2017) [music video]
Screenwriter
- MM9 (TV 2010) [episodes 5-9; with Shinji Higuchi, Kazunori Ito]
- Ultra Zone (TV 2011) [episodes 8-11, 19-22; with Takeshi Nakazawa]
Miscellaneous
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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 (2010) - Produced in association
- Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) - Assistant art director
- Neo Ultra Q (TV 2013) - Editor / visual effects / character design
- 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
- Ultraman Orb The Movie (2017) - Storyboards
Actor
- Ultra Zone (TV 2011) as Man in crowd [episode 21]
- Ultraman X (TV 2015) as Voice of telecom [episode 15] / police officer taking photographs [voice; episode 16]
- Ultraman Orb The Movie (2017) as Kaiju-obsessed pedestrian
Gallery
Taguchi with Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Shinji Higuchi
Videos
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External links
- SciFi Japan article on Taguchi and G
- Interview by Kyle Byrd and Matt Parmley (July 2017)
- Twitter account
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