Kiyotaka Taguchi

Kiyotaka Taguchi Born May 7, 1980 Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan Occupation Director, special effects director First work Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) Notable work Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster (2009)

Kiyotaka Taguchi (田口 清隆,   Taguchi Kiyotaka) is a Japanese film and television director. He is best known as the head director of four recent seasons in the Ultra Series: Ultraman X, Ultraman Orb, Ultraman Z, and Ultraman Blazar. His action scenes often make use of complex long takes seldom seen elsewhere in the tokusatsu genre.

Selected filmography

Assistant director of special effects

• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Assistant director

• Ultraman Cosmos (TV 2001-2002)

Special effects art assistant

• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
• Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

Director

• G (2008) [short]
• Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster (2009) [short]
• MM9 (TV 2010) [episode 5, 9]
• 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]
• Ultraman Z (TV 2020) [episodes 1-3, 13-15, 25]
• Sevenger Fight (TV 2021) [miniseries]
• Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga (TV 2021-2022) [episodes 7-8, 18-19]
• Giant Monster Bugon (2022)
• Ultraman Decker (TV 2022-2023) [episodes 20-21]
• Ultraman Blazar (TV 2023-2024) [episodes 1-3, 14-15, 24-25]
• Ultraman Blazar the Movie: Tokyo Kaiju Showdown (2024)

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; episode 5 with Shinji Higuchi, Kazunori Ito]
• Ultra Zone (TV 2011) [episodes 8-11, 19-22; with Takeshi Nakazawa]
• Giant Monster Bugon (2022)

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

Miscellaneous

• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) - Digital effects [with numerous]
• Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) - Digital effects [with numerous]
• Godzilla Final Wars (2004) - Digital compositing [with numerous]
• 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 Haired Monster (2009) - Compositing [with Mariko Sugawara, Isao Morohoshi]
• Death Kappa (2010) - Produced in association
• A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo (2012) - Art assistant
• 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
• Sevenger Fight (TV 2021) - Editor / visual effects
• SSSS.DYNAZENON (TV 2021) - Monster design

Gallery

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  Taguchi on the set of Neo Ultra Q

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  Taguchi on the set of Ultraman X

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  Taguchi with Ultraman X at the 2015 International Tokyo Toy Show

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  Kiyotaka Taguchi and artist Matt Frank at G-Fest XXIV

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  Taguchi with Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Shinji Higuchi

Videos

2012 SciFi Japan TV interview Taguchi guides three children through the making of their own kaiju film The music video for Mayday's "Life of Planet"

External links

• SciFi Japan article on Taguchi and G
• Interview by Kyle Byrd and Matt Parmley (July 2017)

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