Noboru Tanaka Filmography

Occupation:: Director
Biography:: Though largely unknown in the West, Noboru Tanaka, like his counterpart, Tatsumi Kumashiro, is one of the most important Japanese directors to emerge during the 1970s. Tanaka came to prominence during a tumultuous period in Japanese cinema: due to the popularity of television and Hollywood movies...Read More

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Yojo Densetsu Hachijohachi

Crew: Director

1988
Tsubomi no Nagame

Crew: Director

1986
Ushimitsu no Mura

Crew: Director

1983
Motto Hageshiku Motto Tsuyoko

Crew: Director

1981
Hardo Sukyandaru: Sei no Hyoryusha

Crew: Director

1980
Tenshi No Harawata: Nami

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Noboru Tanaka directed this third installment in the popular series which began with Jokousei Tenshi No Harawata (1978). Eri Kanuma stars as Nami, a Japanese field reporter writing an article about rape for a women's magazine. As she investigates a bizarre series of crimes, she links up with a Read More

1980
Aiyoku no Targetto

Crew: Director

1979
Aiyoku No Hyoteki

Crew: Director

1979
Hitozuma Shudan Boko Chishi Jiken

Crew: Director

1978
Pink Salon: Koshoku Gonin no Onna

Crew: Director

1978
Semeru

Crew: Director

1977
Onna Kyoshi

Crew: Director

1977
Hakkinbon Bijin Ranbu Yori: Semeru!

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The grim, dark conclusion to Noboru Tanaka's Showa Era trilogy (preceded by Jitsuroku: Abe Sada and Edogawa Rampo Ryoki-Kan: Yaneura No Sanpo Sha) is an amoral masterpiece. Although it is not as graphic as much of their product, it remains among the most disturbing films ever released by the Read More

1977
Ando Noboru no Waga Toto to Sex no Kiroku

Crew: Director

1976
Edogawa Rampo Ryokikan: Yaneura no Sanposha

Crew: Director

Actors: Hiroshi Cho, Tokuko Watanabe, Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis: The snooping landlord of a rundown Tokyo boarding house witnesses a grisly murder that sends him spiraling down the path of madness in this classic Japanese shocker based on a story by famed author Edogawa Rampo. The year is 1923. Goda is the owner of a Tokyo boarding house populated by a motley Read More

1976
A Woman Called Sada Abe

Crew: Director

Actors: Junko Miyashita, Hideaki Ezumi

Synopsis: Inspired by the true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936, director Noboru Tanaka's stark tale of passion has lost none of its power to shock since its original release in Read More

1975
Kobe Kokusai Gang

Crew: Director

1975
Maruhi: Shikijo Mesu Ichiba

Crew: Director

Actors: Sakumi Hagiwara, Junko Miyashita

Synopsis: Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. The casting is almost demented, with classical Read More

1974
Hirusagari no Joji: Henshin

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Noboru Tanaka's well-made but depressing entry in Nikkatsu's popular Hirusagari No Joji series is the story of a young flower-delivery boy named Jun (Akira Takahashi) who is hopelessly in love with Ryoko (Miyoko Aoyama), a sales clerk at the store where he works. Jun is an idealist, and his hopes Read More

1973
Maruhi: Jorozeme Jigoku

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The second of Nikkatsu's trilogy of softcore melodramas looking at prostitution in various Japanese cities, this dark look at ritualistic temple sex in Edo from director Noboru Tanaka is quite a departure from the light, comic tone of Chusei Sone's Maruhi: Joro Ichiba. Resembling nothing so much Read More

1973
Onna Kyoshi Shiseikatsu

Crew: Director

1973
Mayonaka yo Yojo

Crew: Director

1973
Koshoku Kazoku: Kitsune to Tanuki

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although not up to the caliber of popular Nikkatsu director Noboru Tanaka's better-known works, this amusing sex comedy still has its moments. Four venal, bickering sisters and their husbands come to their ancestral home, where their mother is on her deathbed. The four couples -- when they're not Read More

1972
Kanno Kyoshitsu: Ai no Tekunikku

Crew: Director

1972
Yogisha no Onna

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Pinku eiga specialist Noboru Tanaka, later responsible for the striking Tenshi No Harawata: Nami, directed this memorable genre entry for Nikkatsu. Mari Tanaka, from the Koi No Karyudo series, stars as Saeko, a young woman pathologically jealous of anyone standing between her and her older sister Read More

1972
Musumenekotachi no Yoru

Crew: Director

1972
Kaben no Shizuku

Crew: Director

1972