Noboru Tanaka

Noboru Tanaka

Birth : 1937-08-15, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Death : 2006-10-04

History

Film director. Highly regarded for his work directing films in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series, beginning in the early 1970's.

Profile

Noboru Tanaka

Movies

Kichiku
Director
Monster Woman '88
Director
Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed suicide. As days go by, Satomi keeps receiving the messages from the spirit world....
Spectacle of Buds
Director
Yoko Kon, a former rock singer, plays a stripper with unique nipples called Buds.
Village of Doom
Director
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
Motto hageshiku motto tsuyoku
Director
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter
Director
Junior High School Student Yudo spends his nights hanging out at the disco; his parents are more interested in dealing with swapping partners than taking care of their son. One evening, while he's shoplifting, a young woman gives him a hand and helps him pull off the snatch. Yudo, mesmerized by the woman, follows her to find out where she lives. Then he attacks her...
Hell's Revenge
Director
Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was still a virile, young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is a money bag and if he should die of excess sex, she will come into a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands... Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.
Angel Guts: Nami
Director
Whilst researching an article about rape for a magazine article, Nami starts having fantasies of rape as she comes closer to a fate that could be worse than death.
Five Pink Girls
Director
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Director
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Female Teacher
Director
A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.
Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
Director
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Director
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
The Watcher in the Attic
Director
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
The International Gang of Kobe
Director
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
A Woman Called Sada Abe
Director
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Director
Roman Porno from 1974, focusing on the daily life of lower-class individuals in the slums of Osaka.
A Modern Day Schoolma'am
Director
Roman Porno from 1973.
Midnight Fairy
Director
Kazuo is an angry young man, especially resentful of the power and snootiness of the rich. But at the same time he's obsessed with Saeko, the daughter of a rich businessman.
The Hell-Fated Courtesan
Director
Members of the Japanese royal family seeking to appease a "Death Goddess" through ritualistic temple sex.
Afternoon Affair: Transformation
Director
Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Director
Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...
The Last Laugh
Director
Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.
Woman on the Night Train
Director
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.
Night of the Felines
Director
Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female sex workers, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
Burning Skin
Assistant Director
Roman Porno from 1972.
Dewdrops on the Petals
Director
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.
Office Lady Diary: Scent of a She-Cat
Assistant Director
Roman Porno from 1972.
Adults Games
Assistant Director
The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Assistant Director
Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
The Pornographers
Assistant Director
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.