SABU

SABU

Nascimento : 1964-11-18, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

História

Sabu (サブ, Sabu, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka. Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of "quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves." Shin'ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu's first five films. Blessing Bell, starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu's films), was a turn away from his kinetic, parodic, and black comedy narratives, and earned the NETPAC Award at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. Later films featured the J-pop band V6. In 2009, he directed The Crab Cannery Ship, a modern adaptation of a classic of Japanese proletarian literature written by Takiji Kobayashi. He has continued to work as an actor, such as in Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer (2001). His film Chasuke's Journey was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

Perfil

SABU

Filmes

My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy
Editor
Kiyosumi’s affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she’s unwilling to share threatens their bond.
My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy
Screenplay
Kiyosumi’s affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she’s unwilling to share threatens their bond.
My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy
Director
Kiyosumi’s affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she’s unwilling to share threatens their bond.
Dancing Mary
Editor
Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
Dancing Mary
Writer
Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
Dancing Mary
Director
Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
Jam
Editor
A traditional ballad singer Hiroshi has enthusiastic middle-aged female fans. Takeru believes that by doing good things to others, he could cause a miracle to happen and cure his beloved girlfriend who is in coma. Tetsuo avenges himself on yakuza for putting him in a jail and now is chased by them. These three men's paths are somehow intertwined and drawing them toward a showdown.
Jam
Screenplay
A traditional ballad singer Hiroshi has enthusiastic middle-aged female fans. Takeru believes that by doing good things to others, he could cause a miracle to happen and cure his beloved girlfriend who is in coma. Tetsuo avenges himself on yakuza for putting him in a jail and now is chased by them. These three men's paths are somehow intertwined and drawing them toward a showdown.
Jam
Director
A traditional ballad singer Hiroshi has enthusiastic middle-aged female fans. Takeru believes that by doing good things to others, he could cause a miracle to happen and cure his beloved girlfriend who is in coma. Tetsuo avenges himself on yakuza for putting him in a jail and now is chased by them. These three men's paths are somehow intertwined and drawing them toward a showdown.
Mr. Long
Screenplay
Ron, que sempre trabalhou como matador em Taiwan, falhou terrivelmente em uma grande missão em Tóquio. Agora, quando finalmente conseguiu se livrar das garras da Yakuza, um dos grupos criminosos mais temidos do mundo, ele está precisando reestruturar toda a sua vida ao lado de Lily, sua esposa, e seu filho, Jun. Mas em breve será obrigado a reviver algumas situações de seu passado.
Mr. Long
Director
Ron, que sempre trabalhou como matador em Taiwan, falhou terrivelmente em uma grande missão em Tóquio. Agora, quando finalmente conseguiu se livrar das garras da Yakuza, um dos grupos criminosos mais temidos do mundo, ele está precisando reestruturar toda a sua vida ao lado de Lily, sua esposa, e seu filho, Jun. Mas em breve será obrigado a reviver algumas situações de seu passado.
Happiness
Screenplay
Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forgotten happy moments and is rejuvenated. This is just the beginning. Kanjaki goes on to make the village people recall their happy pasts, but his face is lined with worry and a sadness that deepens. What is the secret of this helmet? And what is he trying to do with it? Director Sabu’s Happiness suggests happiness and suffering are intertwined through the unusual scenario of a helmet reminding people of the happiest moments of their lives. Sabu convincingly portrays the notion that memory is the source of both happiness and suffering, and how memory affects our lives.
Happiness
Director
Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forgotten happy moments and is rejuvenated. This is just the beginning. Kanjaki goes on to make the village people recall their happy pasts, but his face is lined with worry and a sadness that deepens. What is the secret of this helmet? And what is he trying to do with it? Director Sabu’s Happiness suggests happiness and suffering are intertwined through the unusual scenario of a helmet reminding people of the happiest moments of their lives. Sabu convincingly portrays the notion that memory is the source of both happiness and suffering, and how memory affects our lives.
Silêncio
Samurai #1
Século XVII. Dois padres jesuítas portugueses, Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) e Francisco Garupe (Adam Driver), viajam até o Japão em uma época onde o catolicismo foi banido. À procura do mentor deles, padre Ferreira (Liam Neeson) os jesuítas enfrentam a violência e perseguição de um governo que deseja expurgar todas as influências externas.
A Jornada de Chasuke
Screenplay
Na vida após a morte, escritores ocupados estão criando cenários para a humanidade. O que eles escrevem dita o destino de todos. Chasuke, um servidor de chá celestial, está sempre fazendo o seu trabalho para garantir que os dramaturgos sigam em sua tarefa sem fim. Ele não pode evitar ouvir as conversas, e está especialmente interessado na história da jovem Yuri. Um comentário descuidado muda o destino dela em um acidente de carro fatal. Só Chasuke pode resgatá-la, voltando ao mundo físico.
A Jornada de Chasuke
Director
Na vida após a morte, escritores ocupados estão criando cenários para a humanidade. O que eles escrevem dita o destino de todos. Chasuke, um servidor de chá celestial, está sempre fazendo o seu trabalho para garantir que os dramaturgos sigam em sua tarefa sem fim. Ele não pode evitar ouvir as conversas, e está especialmente interessado na história da jovem Yuri. Um comentário descuidado muda o destino dela em um acidente de carro fatal. Só Chasuke pode resgatá-la, voltando ao mundo físico.
Senhorita Zumbi
Writer
Um casal rico decide ignorar as leis estritas que proíbem zumbis em casas e levam uma zumbi para ser sua governanta. Quando a zumbi chega, eles também recebem uma nota avisando para não alimentá-la com qualquer tipo de carne e também não deixar uma arma carregada por perto.
Senhorita Zumbi
Director
Um casal rico decide ignorar as leis estritas que proíbem zumbis em casas e levam uma zumbi para ser sua governanta. Quando a zumbi chega, eles também recebem uma nota avisando para não alimentá-la com qualquer tipo de carne e também não deixar uma arma carregada por perto.
Bunny Drop: Surpresas da Vida
Screenplay
Daikichi, um jovem solteiro de 27 anos, retorna à casa de sua família para o funeral de seu avô. No local, descobre que este havia deixado uma filha ilegítima de 6 anos. Ao perceber que toda a família vê a criança como um problema, e que pretendem doá-la para a adoção, Daikichi decide assumir a responsabilidade de criá-la.
Bunny Drop: Surpresas da Vida
Director
Daikichi, um jovem solteiro de 27 anos, retorna à casa de sua família para o funeral de seu avô. No local, descobre que este havia deixado uma filha ilegítima de 6 anos. Ao perceber que toda a família vê a criança como um problema, e que pretendem doá-la para a adoção, Daikichi decide assumir a responsabilidade de criá-la.
Kanikôsen
Screenplay
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Kanikôsen
Director
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Sakuran
Patron
Tsuchiya Anna blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
Dead Run
Screenplay
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Dead Run
Director
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Hold Up Down
Writer
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.
Hold Up Down
Director
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.
Blessing Bell
Writer
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Blessing Bell
Director
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
A1012K
Director
A robot with human intelligence escapes from a military testing unit and wreaks havoc in a shopping mall
Hard Luck Hero
Screenplay
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
Hard Luck Hero
Director
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
Drive
Screenplay
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
Drive
Director
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
Ichi, o Assassino
Kaneko
Anjo, um chefe da máfia japonesa, a Yakuza, desaparece com três milhões de ienes. Os membros de sua gangue, liderados pelo masoquista Kakihara, saem em busca de Anjo, mas os métodos extremamente violentos do novo líder acabam chamando a atenção negativamente de gangues rivais. Tudo piora quando ele contrata o misterioso assassino psicopata Ichi, controlado por um policial aposentado.
Monday
Screenplay
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
Monday
Director
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
Unlucky Monkey
Bank Robber
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Unlucky Monkey
Writer
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Unlucky Monkey
Director
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Postman Blues
Writer
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Postman Blues
Kurokawa
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Postman Blues
Director
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Dangan Runner
Screenplay
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
Dangan Runner
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
Dangan Runner
Director
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
Don't Look Up
Sekikawa
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Shinjuku Triad Society
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Domoto
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Domoto
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Zeiram 2
Fujikuro (as Sabu)
Os caçadores de recompensas intergalácticos Iria e Bob retornam para rastrear uma antiga relíquia mística. Quando uma segunda unidade de Zeiram aparece e enlouquece, todos os recursos de Iria são necessários para sobreviver a um jogo mortal de gato e rato com a temível criatura espacial.
Kiriko
1994 sequel to Satoru Kobayashi's "The Blind Cat".
800 Two Lap Runners
This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa. Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead friend Aihara with whom he had a brief homosexual affair, is now dating Aihara's former girlfriend Kyoko, but Kyoko is more interested in Kenji than he is in her. Ryuji, Kenji's friend and track rival, is pursuing hurdler Shoko but she in turn is after Kenji. Ryuji does have his own admirer, Nao, Kenji's younger sister, but when they do get together, Nao resembles her brother too much for Ryuji to go through with the lovemaking.
A Legend of Turmoil
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
Savage City: Angel Whisper
A corrupt cop teams up with an unlikely partner to protect the city from a gang of ruthless drug addicts.
World Apartment Horror
Ita
A Yakuza underling is given the assignment to rid an apartment of its tenants within a week. He tries a variety of desperate tactics to no avail. Soon his problems get worse as an evil spirit makes its presence known.
Under Your Bed
Director