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.
Fotos
Películas (43)
Arrested Memory
2027 · Director, Writer
Under Your Bed
2023 · Director
Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
2021 · Director
My Blood and Bones in a Flowing Galaxy
2021 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
Dancing Mary
2019 · Editor, Director, Writer
Jam
2018 · Editor, Screenplay, Director
Mr. Long
2017 · Director, Screenplay
Happiness
2017 · Director, Screenplay
Silence
2016 · Samurai #1
Chasuke's Journey
2015 · Screenplay, Director
Miss ZOMBIE
2013 · Director, Writer
Ichi the Killer - Making Of
2013 · Self
Ichi the Killer - Behind the Scenes
2013 · Self
Bunny Drop
2011 · Director, Screenplay
Kanikôsen
2009 · Director, Screenplay
Sakuran
2006 · Patron
Dead Run
2005 · Director, Screenplay
Hold Up Down
2005 · Director, Writer
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
2003 · Patron
A1012K
2003 · Director
Hard Luck Hero
2003 · Director, Screenplay
Blessing Bell
2002 · Director, Writer
Drive
2002 · Director, Screenplay
Ichi the Killer
2001 · Kaneko
Monday
2000 · Screenplay, Director
Unlucky Monkey
1998 · Bank Robber, Writer, Director
Postman Blues
1997 · Kurokawa, Director, Writer
Dangan Runner
1996 · Assassin, Director, Screenplay
Don't Look Up
1996 · Sekikawa
(Ura) Tôsatsu nanpa-dô
1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996
Costume Club Wars - Angel of Sumata
1995
Shinjuku Triad Society
1995 · Shusuke Shimada
Zëiram 2
1994 · Fujikuro (as Sabu)
Kiriko
1994
800 Two Lap Runners
1994 · Kyoichi Nakazawa
Warrior's Justice 2: Full Battle
1994
New Book of the Waru 3: Passion
1993
Kuma-chan
1993
High-Speed NSX: The Screaming Boogie
1992
A Legend of Turmoil
1992
Savage City: Angel Whisper
1991
World Apartment Horror
1991 · Ita
