Sabu
Sabu
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.
Directed Movies
Director: SABU
Writers: SABU,
Cast: Atsuko Takahata, Chizuru Ikewaki, Go Ayano, Karina, Kenichi Matsuyama, Mana Ashida, Mayu Kitaki, Mirei Kiritani, Ruiki Sato, Ryô Kimura,
Director: SABU
Writers: SABU,
Cast: Akaji Maro, Hideki Noda, Hijiri Kojima, Masanobu Ando, Nanako Okochi, Naomi Nishida, Ren Osugi, Sansei Shiomi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki,
Acted Movies
Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Sakichi Sato,
Cast: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Nao Ômori, Paulyn Sun, SABU, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shun Sugata, Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Toru Tezuka, Yoshiki Arizono,
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Writers: Emeric Pressburger,
Cast: David Farrar, Deborah Kerr, Esmond Knight, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse, Kathleen Byron, May Hallatt, Sabu,
Director: Zoltan Korda
Cast: Faith Brook, Frank Puglia, John Mather, John Qualen, Joseph Calleia, Noble Johnson, Patricia O'Rourke, Ralph Byrd, Rosemary DeCamp, Sabu,
Director: Michael Powell
Writers: Miles Malleson,
Cast: Bruce Winston, Conrad Veidt, Hay Petrie, John Justin, June Duprez, Mary Morris, Miles Malleson, Morton Selten, Rex Ingram, Sabu,
Written Movies
Director: SABU
Writers: SABU,
Cast: Atsuko Takahata, Chizuru Ikewaki, Go Ayano, Karina, Kenichi Matsuyama, Mana Ashida, Mayu Kitaki, Mirei Kiritani, Ruiki Sato, Ryô Kimura,
Director: SABU
Writers: SABU,
Cast: Akaji Maro, Hideki Noda, Hijiri Kojima, Masanobu Ando, Nanako Okochi, Naomi Nishida, Ren Osugi, Sansei Shiomi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki,
Director: Ertem Eğilmez
Writers: Başar Sabuncu,
Cast: ?ener ?en, Adile Na?it, Ay?en Gruda, Bilge Zobu, Erdal Özya?c?lar, Ergün Uçucu, Metin Çeliker, Necati Bilgiç, Tuncer Sevi, Zihni Küçümen,