[2] That same year also marked her first starring role in Tokyo Emmanuelle for Nikkatsu where according to critic Jasper Sharp, her "figure and smouldering dark looks ... could be readily appreciated by viewers both in and outside Japan".
"[3] She also starred in the film's sequel released by Nikkatsu in November 1975, Tokyo Emmanuelle: Private Instruction (東京エマニエル夫人 個人教授, Tōkyō emenueru fujin: kojin kyōju) directed by Katsuhiko Fujii.
[1][2] At the end of 1975, Taguchi starred in another Japanese film which took its inspiration from a foreign sex movie, Deep Throat in Tokyo, directed by Kan Mukai and released by Toei.
[2] Later in 1976, she starred in two other Roman Pornos: Shōgorō Nishimura's A Call Girl's Testimony: Exposure and Katsuhiko Fujii's International Stewardess: Erotic Flight.
[7] Taguchi also had supporting roles in two television programs, the August 1978 horror thriller Kyodai kumo no kan (巨大蜘蛛の館) from TV Asahi,[8] and episode 10 (Mask of the Night) of the cult detective series Tantei Monogatari broadcast by NTV in November 1979.