Kiyotaka Taguchi

Kiyotaka Taguchi Born May 7, 1980 Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan Occupation 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 three recent seasons in the Ultra series: Ultraman X, Ultraman Orb, and Ultraman Z. 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) [with Mitsuru Shimada, Hiroaki Hishiki]
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) [with Hiroshi Okamoto, Noritsugu Yoshida]

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 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) [episode 7-8, 18-19]

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]

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
• 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
• SSSS.DYNAZENON (TV 2021) - Monster design

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

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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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  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)
• Twitter account

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