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Noboru Tanaka is a Director and Assistant Director Japonais born on 15 august 1937 at Hakuba (Japon)

Noboru Tanaka

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Birth name 田中登
Nationality Japon
Birth 15 august 1937 at Hakuba (Japon)
Death 4 october 2006 (at 69 years)

Noboru Tanaka (田中登, Tanaka Noboru, (August 15, 1937 – October 4, 2006)) was a Japanese film director best known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu Roman porno queen Junko Miyashita. The first film in this trilogy recounted the story of Sada Abe a year before Nagisa Oshima's internationally released In the Realm of the Senses (1976), which told the same story. Though at the time he was working, his career was overshadowed by directors such as Tatsumi Kumashiro and Chūsei Sone, many critics today judge Tanaka the best of Nikkatsu's Roman porno directors.
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Filmography of Noboru Tanaka (8 films)

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Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!, 1h23
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, BDSM in films
Actors Junko Miyashita
Rating62% 3.1359653.1359653.1359653.1359653.135965
The life of the S&M-theme artist and author Seiu Itō is depicted in the film. His artistic life and Sadian philosophy, inspired by his torturing of his two wives and Tae, his favorite prostitute, are portrayed as shown in his journalistic writings. Tae is eventually driven insane due to Itō's attentions.
The Watcher in the Attic, 1h16
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Genres Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi
Rating58% 2.905552.905552.905552.905552.90555
In 1923 Tokyo Lady Minako is the owner of a shabby boarding house with a collection of bizarre characters for tenants. Gōda, one of her tenants, spends most of his time in the attic spying on the other tenants through holes he has drilled into the ceiling. During one of his peeping sessions, Gōda witnesses the murder of one of the tenants at the hand of Lady Minako. Gōda becomes obsessed with Lady Minako, and determines to commit a grotesque murder in order to prove to her that he is her soul mate. He kills another tenant - a priest - by dripping poison into his mouth through the ceiling. A series of grotesque murders follow. The film ends apocalyptically with Great Kantō earthquake which kills both of them during their intercourse.
A Woman Called Sada Abe, 1h15
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related film
Actors Junko Miyashita
Rating60% 3.040553.040553.040553.040553.04055
Over a black screen, Sada Abe (Junko Miyashita) tells some of the aliases she had used in her past. The opening concludes when the words "Kichi Sada 2" appear on the screen, followed by a newspaper headline, "Document: Sada Abe," which is the Japanese title of the film. The lovers, Sada and Kichi (Hideaki Esumi) are then shown together, with Kichi predicting that he will die if their love-making continues.
Dewdrops on the Petals, 1h11
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Kazuko Shirakawa
Rating65% 3.2925953.2925953.2925953.2925953.292595
Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her husband and her best friend engage in an affair, and Yukie goes to her father for advice on how to save her marriage.
Woman on the Night Train, 1h11
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Rail transport films
Rating54% 2.737182.737182.737182.737182.73718
Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters. He approaches their father about his dilemma. The father explains that the two are actually half-sisters, Saeko being the result of his affair with Tomoko, a family maid. After Arikawa explains this to the sisters, Saeko's obsession with Yumi seems to end. However, when Yumi and Arikawa leave for a vacation together, Saeko follows them on the night train. When she catches up to them, she kills her sister with a razor blade and then kills herself.
Excitement Class: Love Techniques, 1h12
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Rating56% 2.811932.811932.811932.811932.81193
Tourmenté par ses premières envies sexuelles, un jeune étudiant vierge, Isao, est fou amoureux de sa professeure d'éducation physique, la ravissante Ikuko. Prêt à tout pour le lui faire savoir, il profite, lors d'un cours, d'un questionnaire sur la sexualité censé être anonyme pour lui avouer ce qu'il éprouve pour elle. À la fin de sa lettre d'amour, il signe et lui donne rendez-vous. Mais celle-ci rejette gentiment ses avances. Lorsqu'il apprend qu'elle s'apprête à épouser l'un de ses collègues, un professeur de chimie, Isao tente de l'évincer et l'éloigner d'elle même s'il doit le tuer..

Director

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji, Bunjaku Han, Eiko Matsuda
Roles Assistant Director
Rating62% 3.141673.141673.141673.141673.14167
A group of female bikers try to help American soldiers framed on drug charges.
The Pornographers, 2h8
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornography
Actors Haruo Tanaka, Ganjirō Nakamura, Kō Nishimura, Masaomi Kondō, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Taiji Tonoyama
Roles Assistant Director
Rating71% 3.596643.596643.596643.596643.59664
Le film raconte l'histoire d'un réalisateur de film pornographique, M. Ogata, dont l'activité est menacée par les voleurs, le gouvernement, et par sa propre famille.