Directing

Shigeo Tanaka

Born — Died

1907-01-07 — 1992-01-18

Place of birth

Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Driving Like Mad poster
NR

Two men clash over the beautiful star of a motorcycle show.

Driving Like Mad

1955

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Teen-ager's Resistance poster
NR

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

Teen-ager's Resistance

1955

War of the Monsters poster
8.0

An expedition goes out to a remote island to find a priceless opal. This opal happens to be the egg of the powerful Barugon, a huge lizard-like monster that can freeze foes with its long tongue or disintegrate them with its devastating rainbow ray. When Gammera begins to fight Barugon, several plans begin to stop both monsters and keep the damage of Japan at a minimum.

War of the Monsters

1967

Yoru wa usotsuki poster
NR

A small restaurant tucked away in the back of Ginza is run by Keiko, the owner’s daughter. Writers, club owners, corporate executives, and others are drawn to her charm.

Yoru wa usotsuki

1960

Daigaku no kotengu poster
NR

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

Daigaku no kotengu

1952

Strange Triangle poster
7.3

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he misses very much the other younger girl whom he saw a lot of, and with the older woman's consent, sees the younger one and on her request, asks her to move in with them. This is the beginning of a very strange triangle which they all live through to a not unhappy ending.

Strange Triangle

1965

Tainted Flowers poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tainted Flowers

1958

Shinkon noroke bushi poster
NR

A comedy about newlyweds.

Shinkon noroke bushi

1953

The Betrothed poster
8.0

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

The Betrothed

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Iku-san ga

1946

Doyō fujin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doyō fujin

1948

No artwork available
NR

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

Full Moon

1949

A Woman's Gamble poster
NR

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.

A Woman's Gamble

1966

Nanatsu no seiza poster
NR

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Nanatsu no seiza

1951

Haha yamahiko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha yamahiko

1952

No artwork available
NR

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

Aizenso

1949

Woman Gambler and the Nun poster
7.0

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Woman Gambler and the Nun

1968

A Daughter's Life Guide poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Daughter's Life Guide

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fire Department

1951

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kare to kanojo wa iku

1946

Mother poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1958

Arashi no naka no shimai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arashi no naka no shimai

1949

Tokyo Elegy poster
NR

In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged promises of marriage. Ryuji was deployed shortly thereafter, and after the war ended, he was taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Atsuko, who had returned to Tokyo, clung to the promise she had made with Ryuji—that if he were safe, he would “come to the garden of St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day.” Relying on that promise, she went to St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day in both 1946 and 1947, but Ryuji never appeared.

Tokyo Elegy

1951

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi poster
NR

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi

1952

Rain on Jogashima poster
NR

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

Rain on Jogashima

1950

No artwork available
NR

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.

Thunderstorm

1946

Saigo no kikyō poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Saigo no kikyō

1945

Phoenix poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Phoenix

1950

No artwork available
NR

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Tsuma mo koisu

1950

Champion Woman Gambler poster
9.0

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Champion Woman Gambler

1968

Black Dividend poster
NR

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...

Black Dividend

1963

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards

1967

Butai wa mawaru poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Butai wa mawaru

1948

Monpe-san poster
NR

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

Monpe-san

1944

Woman Gambler Is Coming poster
7.0

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Woman Gambler Is Coming

1968

The High School Deviates poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The High School Deviates

1970

Kurohyō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kurohyō

1953

The Great Wall poster
7.0

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.

The Great Wall

1962

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game poster
8.0

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

1969