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
NRTwo men clash over the beautiful star of a motorcycle show.
Driving Like Mad
1955
6.4Gamera 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
NRA college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.
Teen-ager's Resistance
1955
8.0An 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
NRA 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
NRWith 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
Behind the camera
NRTwo men clash over the beautiful star of a motorcycle show.
Driving Like Mad
1955
6.4Gamera 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
NRA college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.
Teen-ager's Resistance
1955
8.0An 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
NRA 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
NRWith 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
7.3A 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Tainted Flowers
1958
NRA comedy about newlyweds.
Shinkon noroke bushi
1953
8.0Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
The Betrothed
1957
No synopsis available yet.
Iku-san ga
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doyō fujin
1948
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
NROnna 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
NRA story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.
Nanatsu no seiza
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha yamahiko
1952
A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.
Aizenso
1949
7.0Eighth 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Daughter's Life Guide
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Fire Department
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Kare to kanojo wa iku
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mother
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
NRIn 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
NRA mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.
Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
1952
NRA tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.
Rain on Jogashima
1950
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
NR1945 Japanese movie
Saigo no kikyō
1945
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Phoenix
1950
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
9.0Ninth 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
NRRyokichi 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Butai wa mawaru
1948
NRThe story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.
Monpe-san
1944
7.0Sixth 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The High School Deviates
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kurohyō
1953
7.0In 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
8.013th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
1969
