Noboru Tanaka

Directing

Noboru Tanaka

Born — Died

1937-08-15 — 2006-10-04

Place of birth

Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

27 titles

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

Known for

Behind the camera

Female Teacher poster
2.6

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.

Female Teacher

1977

Village of Doom poster
6.7

Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

Village of Doom

1983

A Woman Called Sada Abe poster
5.5

A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.

A Woman Called Sada Abe

1975

Night of the Felines poster
5.5

A mercurial look into the underbelly of Tokyo's nightlife that follows a trio of sex workers at a secretive Soapland brothel.

Night of the Felines

1972

Angel Guts: Nami poster
5.5

While investigating stories of rape for a magazine article, a determined but callous reporter becomes perversely aroused as she meets the women who are suffering through the horror of their experiences. But will she suffer their fate if she goes too far?

Angel Guts: Nami

1979

Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market poster
6.3

A strong-willed young prostitute, her mentally challenged brother, and her aging prostitute mother attempt to survive in 1970s Osaka.

Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market

1974

The Watcher in the Attic poster
5.7

When a tenant from a shabby 1920s boarding house secretly witnesses the landlady perform a truly heinous act, he is overcome with desire for her and begins plotting to kill a fellow tenant to demonstrate his love.

The Watcher in the Attic

1976

Rape and Death of a Housewife poster
6.5

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.

Rape and Death of a Housewife

1978

Woman on the Night Train poster
5.7

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.

Woman on the Night Train

1972

The International Gang of Kobe poster
5.7

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.

The International Gang of Kobe

1975

A Modern Day Schoolma'am poster
9.0

Naomi, a high school teacher, feels lonely living alone, so she secretly begins living with her student Keiji. It could be said that she is providing for Keiji as an outlet for her sexual desires rather than living together. Naomi, who has a natural lewd blood in her veins, knows that Keiji's older brother, Keisuke, is passionate about her, so she immediately decides to have a relationship with him. One day, Keiji gets fed up with Naomi and disappears...

A Modern Day Schoolma'am

1973

The Hell-Fated Courtesan poster
7.0

The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...

The Hell-Fated Courtesan

1973

Kichiku poster
NR

Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously adapted in 1978 film entitled “The Demon” starring Ken Ogata and directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife. Consumed by the jealousy and power struggles of their own relationships, they involve the children in their own games - with tragic results.

Kichiku

2002

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex poster
7.0

Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

1976

Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter poster
4.1

A junior high school student spends his nights hanging out at the disco. At home his parents are more interested in swapping partners with willing couples than spending time with their son. One evening, while shoplifting, a young woman gives him a hand and helps him pull off the snatch. Mesmerized by the woman he follows her to where she lives. After he makes a fumbled attempt at raping her she lets him stay and they spend a lazy summer together.

Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter

1980

Five Pink Girls poster
4.8

A movie based on Saikaku Ihara’s “Five Women Who Loved Love”, which depicts women such as strippers and married women becoming hostesses in a pink salon.

Five Pink Girls

1978

Midnight Fairy poster
9.0

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.

Midnight Fairy

1973

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! poster
3.7

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.

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!

1977

The Last Laugh poster
3.0

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.

The Last Laugh

1972

Dewdrops on the Petals poster
5.0

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.

Dewdrops on the Petals

1972

Spectacle of Buds poster
4.0

A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples and they soon develop a successful stage show around them. But then the old partner returns…

Spectacle of Buds

1986

Flame of Father and Son poster
NR

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his perfectionist father and turns to delinquency. Kazuhiko teams up with his bad friend Teshima to rob 300 million yen from a cash transport truck. Yokomizo, who is investigating the case, is shocked to realize that his son is the culprit.

Flame of Father and Son

1981

Monster Woman '88 poster
7.0

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....

Monster Woman '88

1988

Excitement Class: Love Techniques poster
4.0

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...

Excitement Class: Love Techniques

1972

Hell's Revenge poster
3.3

Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit 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.

Hell's Revenge

1979

Afternoon Affair: Transformation poster
8.0

A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.

Afternoon Affair: Transformation

1973

Motto hageshiku motto tsuyoku poster
4.7

Ten years ago, Kagari—the wife of the heir to the prestigious Toriizaka family—was caught in the act of having an affair with Hiroshi of the Makieda family (with whom they had close family ties) by Hiroshi’s son, Tatsuya, who was nine years old at the time. Now holding this compromising secret over her, Tatsuya has grown into a nineteen-year-old young man, and Kagari approaches him. An erotic suspense drama.

Motto hageshiku motto tsuyoku

1981