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Senkichi Taniguchi (谷口 千吉 Taniguchi Senkichi?) (February 19, 1912 – October 29, 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. (a precursor to Toho) in 1933 and began working as an assistant director to Kajirō Yamamoto alongside his longtime friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. He made his feature film directing debut in 1947 with Snow Trail, which was written by Kurosawa. Snow Trail starred Toshirō Mifune in his film debut and actress Setsuko Wakayama. It helped establish Taniguchi's reputation for action film.

Taniguchi and Wakayama married in 1949 (he had earlier been married to the screenwriter Yōko Mizuki), but the couple divorced in 1956. Taniguchi married his third wife, actress Kaoru Yachigusa, in 1957. Yachigusa and Taniguchi remained together for over fifty years until his death in 2007.

Taniguchi was the screenwriter for the 1949 film, The Quiet Duel, which Kurosawa directed and which also starred Mifune. His most acclaimed film as a director was Escape at Dawn,[a controversial anti-war work from 1950 about a Japanese soldier and a "comfort woman" that got into trouble with Occupation era censors. Taniguchi continued to direct movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but the quality of his work declined. His films from the time period include Man Against Man, The Gambling Samurai, Man In The Storm and The Lost World of Sinbad. His 1965 film International Secret Police: Key of Keys has been famously re-dubbed and re-released as What's Up, Tiger Lily? by Woody Allen. He was chosen as the supervising director of the official documentary of Expo '70.

Senkichi Taniguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, on October 29, 2007, at the age of 95. wiki

Director (32 credits)
1968 Kamo to negi
1967 Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Zettai zetsumei
1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1966 Kiganjô no bôken
1965 Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi
1963 Dai tozoku
1963 Dokuritsu kikanjûtai imada shagekichu
1962 Los guerrilleros del general Lung
1962 Kurenai no sora
1961 Kurenai no umi
1960 Otoko tai otoko
1960 Kunisada Chûji
1957 Shizukanaru otoko
1957 Saigo no dasso
1957 Arashi no naka no otoko
1956 Hadashi no seishun
1956 Furyô shônen
1956 Kuro-obi sangokushi
1955 Sanjusan go sha otonashi
1954 Shiosai
1953 Akasen kichi
1953 Yoru no owari
1953 Fukeyo haru kaze
1952 Gekiryu
1952 Muteki
1951 Dare ga watashi o sabaku no ka
1951 Ai to nikushimi no kanata e
1950 Ma no ogon
1950 Akatsuki no dasso
1949 Jakoman to Tetsu
1947 Ginrei no hate
1946 Toho Show Boat
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Enlaces completados:
OK Dai tozoku (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1963)
OK Ginrei no hate (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1947)
OK Kiganjô no bôken (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1966)
OK Kunisada Chûji (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1960)
OK What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen & Senkichi Taniguchi, 1966)