Senkichi Taniguchi
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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Taniguchi.
Senkichi Taniguchi (谷口 千吉 Taniguchi Senkichi?) (February 19, 1912 – October 29, 2007) was a Japanese film director.[1] He made his feature film directing debut in 1947 in The Snow Trail, which was written by his friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa.[1] Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kurosawa and Taniguchi had been friends since childhood.[1] The Snow Trial starred Toshiro Mifune and actress Setsuko Wakayama.
Taniguchi and Wakayama married in 1949.[1] The couple divorced in 1956.[1] Taniguchi married his second wife, actress Kaoru Yachigusa, in 1957. Yachigusa and Taniguchi remained together for over fifty years until his death 2007.[1]
Taniguchi was the screenwriter for the 1949 film, The Quiet Duel, which Kurosawa directed.[1] The movie also starred Mifune.[1]
Taniguchi continued to direct movies throughout the 1950s. However, he made his best known and most critically acclaimed films duirng the 1960s.[1] His string of hits from the time period include Man Against Man, The Gambling Samurai, Man In The Storm and The Lost World of Sinbad.[1]
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.
Senkichi Taniguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, on October 29, 2007, at the age of 95.[1]
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